Video: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie cover) - SXSW 2012

You gotta love Bruce Springsteen for bringing the house down with an old folk song about an America that's long gone in so many ways. Here's Bruce, the E Street Band, and special guests: Arcade Fire (Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, and Will Butler), Joe Ely, Tom Morello, Alejandro Escovedo, The Low Anthem, Eric Burdon of The Animals, and others singing the Woody Guthrie chestnut "This Land is Your Land", also heard below the Bruce clip. Thanks to YouTube uploader MeYouDanzig for an awesome clip, shot live at The Moody Theater, Austin, TX - SXSW [...]

Yesterday, the Boss came to town. Bruce Springsteen delivered his SXSW Keynote Address in the afternoon, and in the evening, he and his E Street Band played their much-touted SXSW show. I didn't go, but I talked to a bunch of people who did, and nobody had anything bad to say about it. As luck would have it, the show took place on Woody Guthrie's birthday, and Springsteen marked the occasion by covering "This Land Is Your Land" and bringing along an all-star crew of People Springsteen Likes: Arcade Fire, Tom Morello, the Animals' Eric Burdon, Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, [...]