By Lars Brandle: 03/28/2024
Zach Bryan wasn't the only boss on stage at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on (March 27).
For the encore, Bruce Springsteen joined Bryan for two songs, including a performance of the unreleased number "Sandpaper."
The concert wrapped up with Bryan and The Boss dueting on "Revival," the closer from the country-rock artist's 2020 album released Elisabeth, with Maggie Rodgers in support. Earlier, Rodgers joined Bryan on stage for a rendition of "Dawns," the standalone song they co-wrote and released in 2023.
The sight of Springsteen on stage, any stage, is a welcome one.
The rock legend recently made a triumphant return, taking the stage in Phoenix, AZ with the E Street band to relaunch their world tour after a six-month break due to the singer's battle with peptic ulcer.
The problem was so acute the 74-year-old icon has said he thought he might not perform live again. "You sing with your diaphragm," he told E Street Radio host Jim Rotolo. "MY diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make an effort to sing, it was killing me, you know?," hesaid. "So, I literally couldn't sing at all, you know, ans that lasted for two or three months, along with just a myriad of other painful problems.
