The nugs.net "First Friday" Live Archives series returns, with a show linking Guthrie & Springsteen
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February 7, 2026
After skipping January 2026 for reasons that were neither announced nor explained, the nugs.net "First Friday" Live Archives series returned yesterday with another great show from the 1995-1997 solo-acoustic tour supporting The Ghost of Tom Joad. It's Capitol Theatre, Sydney, AUS, 2/12/1997. This was the only show on that tour, or on any other Springsteen tour, in which Bruce performed both his own song "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and Woody Guthrie's song "Tom Joad." (There was, however, another public event in which Springsteen performed both songs in the same set: during his acceptance of the 2021 Woody Guthrie Prize, presented to him in his home-studio in a ceremony live-streamed on May 13, 2021.)
It's fitting that this show should be the first to drop in the nugs.net Live Archives series since the release of "Streets of Minneapolis." As noted about "Streets..." in one of our recently posted articles on it, "In the midst of a modern-day struggle, it evokes the spirit - and even some of the musical and lyrical approaches - of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and yes, Pete Seeger through Springsteen's own mid-2000s work with The (Seeger) Sessions Band."
On an EXTREMELY less serious note - and a rather lascivious one, at that - this is also the first nugs.net Live Archives series to feature a recorded performance of "There Will Never Be Another for Me but You," which was the first publicly performed Springsteen song to include the surname "Trump" in its lyrics.
