Here’s how you know you’re missing out by skipping the South By SouthWest festival this year—on Thursday night, not only did you miss a nearly three hour Bruce Springsteen show, you missed a three hour Bruce Springsteen show that features Arcade Fire, Tom Morello, Alejandro Escovedo, the Low Anthem, Eric Burdon of the Animals, and more joining together to perform Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.” Seriously.
Check out the video of the performance below—it’s sure to make you more than a little jealous of all your friends that made it out to South By SouthWest this year (I know it’s killing me):
There you have it. Begin insane jealously. Then dig the full setlist below (via The NJ Underground), and feel your head explode:
I Ain’t Got No Home (Woody Guthrie cover)
We Take Care Of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Badlands
Death to My Hometown (With Tom Morello)
My City of Ruins
Seeds
The E Street Shuffle
This Depression
Jack of All Trades (With Tom Morello)
Easy Money
Shackled and Drawn
Waitin’ on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
The Ghost of Tom Joad (With Tom Morello)
The Rising
We Are Alive
Thunder Road
Encore:
Rocky Ground (With Michelle Moore)
Land of Hope and Dreams
The Harder They Come (With Jimmy Cliff)
Time Will Tell (Jimmy Cliff cover with Jimmy Cliff)
Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff cover with Jimmy Cliff)
We’ve Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals cover) (With Eric Burdon)
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
This Land Is Your Land
Source: Pitchfork
If you are trying to convince the readers that this picture is from the concert you are writing about, perhaps not posting one with a man who has been dead for nine months might help.