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A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen

Composite photo: Left: Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa. Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com, photo by Kevin Mazur © 2013. Middle: Zac Brown and Mavis Staples. Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy® /WireImage.com, photo by Mark Davis © 2013. Right: John Legend. Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com, photo by Kevin Mazur © 2013.
Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com/photos by Kevin Mazur © 2013 & Mark Davis © 2013
Composite photo: Left: Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa. Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com, photo by Kevin Mazur © 2013. Middle: Zac Brown and Mavis Staples. Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy® /WireImage.com, photo by Mark Davis © 2013. Right: John Legend. Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com, photo by Kevin Mazur © 2013.

Airs Friday, December 5, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Recorded at the 2013 MusiCare's Man of the Year Bruce Springsteen benefit, "A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen" features the industry's biggest names performing The Boss' biggest hits.

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Give at the $168 level during our Membership Campaign and receive the "Tribute To Bruce Springsteen" Combo which includes a "Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits" CD and "MusiCares Tribute To Bruce Springsteen" Blu-ray or DVD! This gift also includes enrollment in the myKPBS Savers Club plus additional online access to more than 130,000 merchant offers and printable coupons, as well as a KPBS License Plate Frame (if you're a new member). The CD only is available at $72, the DVD or Blu-ray only is at $96.

Highlights include Alabama Shakes with a fierce rendition of "Adam Raised a Cain"; Elton John on "Streets of Philadelphia"; John Legend with a piano-driven arrangement of "Dancing in the Dark"; Mumford & Sons with "I'm On Fire"; Tom Morello and My Morning Jacket's Jim James on "The Ghost of Tom Joad"; Patti Smith playing her Springsteen partnership "Because the Night"; Sting with "Lonesome Day"; Neil Young with the rousing "Born in the U.S.A."; Zac Brown Band and Mavis Staples with "My City of Ruins" and more.

The guest of honor himself, Bruce Springsteen, closes out the night with the E Street Band, summoning the crowd of 3, 000 onto their feet as he blazes through catalogue classics "Thunder Road" and "Born to Run," before inviting the night's performers back on stage to join in on an epic finale.

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A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen

"Recorded at the 2013 MusiCare's Man of the Year Bruce Springsteen benefit