Last year, Gaslight Anthem released the best album of 2009.  The ’59 Sound was tremendous: As a punch in the face, a tribute to Joe Strummer, or any other barband/punk rock standard, it kicked ass.  This year, the band toured behind their extremely good (but not quite as good) follow up, American Slang, and unleashed a slew of covers from a wide variety of classic rock sources . . . I wish some of these were better quality, but you get what you get and don’t have a fit.

American Girl (Petty)
Refugee (Petty)
Stand By Me (Ben E King)
Angry Johnny and the Radio/I Was Married/Downtown Train (Tom Waits)/What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (Eddie Ruffin)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
I Do Not Hook Up (Kelly Clarkson)
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I’m on Fire (Springsteen)
Backstreets (Springsteen)
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State of Love and Trust (Pearl Jam)
The Weight (The Band)
It’s a Man’s, Man’s World (James Brown)

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