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Sometimes Bruce gets trumped. I just heard this amazing version of Streets by Bettye LaVette. Compared to Bruce's original it is a version that shows the real potential of the song, although I doubt that Bruce could ever deliver the song in the same fashion as Bettye did. Bettye lived that bruised and battered life more than Springsteen has, I think that shows in the way she sings it, she seems to be able to feel it out more. With Bettye's version it is as if the protagonist is singing the song herself, instead of someone crawling in the skin of the character as Bruce does. One of the few occasions Bruce gets beat on one of his own songs.

Streets is available on Song of America, a project with the ambition to tell the story of American Folk music. No mean feat of our man to have made such a collection.
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