Given how many cover songs Bruce Springsteen has been performing on his current tour (some of them brazen panderings to local fans–see his cover in Perth of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell), it’s only right that someone should turn the tables on him.  The A.V. Club has a new video series entitled Pioneering, and the shining Sharon Van Etten has now returned the favor and paid homage to fellow New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen.  Check out below her signature cover of Springsteen’s Drive All Night at the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park.  Afterwards, check out the interview (by the endearing and bountiful Eef Barzelay) of Van Etten regarding Springsteen.  Van Etten has been on fire (a subtle cover song request for SVE) of late, releasing superb new songs from her impending self-produced album, Are We There (which will be released May 27th).  It’s one of our most highly anticipated albums of 2014.  Go pre-order Are We There HERE.

Photo by Lucas Hodge.