Bruce Springsteen reimagined Jesse Malin’s song, “She Don’t Love Me Now,” for the upcoming benefit album, Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin. The Boss’ take on Malin’s 2015 blues rock tune thrilled the ailing New York musician, who couldn’t be happier with the result, as well as Springsteen’s mere involvement in the benefit album. “Bruce gave it that Stax-soul-thing that we were dreaming of when we recorded the original. It’s so surreal to me,” Malin said in a statement. “Bruce’s generosity, honesty and support are equally as powerful as his songwriting and performing. Bruce is one of the guys. He walks it like he talks it. You spend some time with him, and it feels like you’ve known him for years.”
Silver Patron Saints is due out on September 20 via Glassnote Records, and features covers of Malin’s songs by fellow music luminaries like Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello, Butch Walker, Dinosaur Jr, the Hold Steady, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello with late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, the Kills’ Alison Mosshart and the E Street Band’s Steven Van Zandt, Alejandro Escovedo, Spoon, and more. (Billboard)