Long Players Perform Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run

Frequent as they are, the Long Players’ note-for-note live recreations of classic albums are always something special. Considering that E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent is also a founding member, the band’s decision to perform Born to Run is particularly noteworthy (even if Tallent won’t be there). With its gargantuan wall of sound and empathetic backstreet tales of restless youth, the 1975 LP—on which Springsteen’s entire professional future hinged—would go on to set the template for the widescreen, Jersey-boardwalk sound that launched him into the stratosphere and all but canonized him as an American poet laureate. Armed with guest vocalists such as Bobby Bare Jr., De Novo Dahl’s Joel Dahl, Will Hoge and most notably Tommy “Tutone” Heath—one can only hope he’ll change all the Marys, Terrys, Wendys, Scooters and Magic Rats to “Jenny”—the LPs will assume the massive task of recreating the gangland grandeur of “Jungleland,” the E Street shuffle of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” and the title song’s epic escapism.
Sat., May 23, 9 p.m., 2009