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Bruce arrived in Louisville after 4 days of live shows and appearances in a row, though he didn’t look tired and offered a strong show for over three hours. «Shackled and Drawn» opened a concert that featured the rarely performed «Streets of Philadelphia», followed by «Atlantic City», a strong «Because the Night» and «She’s the One».

«Growin’ Up», done by sign request, featured the 20-year old kid who asked for it onstage with Bruce to sing along. Next was the swing version of «Open All Night», ala Seeger Sessions, followed by the most festive moments of the night with «Darlington County» and «Waitin’ On A Sunny Day».

The encores featured the welcome comeback of «Rocky Ground», which needs to be a standard on the set list, plus another explosive «Rosalita».

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Bruce Springsteen performed last night on NBC «Coming Together» telethon. First he joined Steve Perry, Billy Joel, Mark Rivera and Jimmy Fallon for «Under the Boardwalk», playing guitar and singing background vocals. Later he was joined by the full E Street Band onstage, for a heartfelt «Land of Hope and Dreams» to close the telethon.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performed last Thursday at the Bryce Jordan Center in State College, where they had previously played in 2000. Like then, the show opened with «Lion’s Den«, in honor of the PSU team the Nittany Lions. Highlights of this strong performance included a long set of songs from 1973, with «Spirit in the Night», «Seaside Bar Song», «It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City» and «Sandy«, jumping them to a set of songs off 1984’s Born in the USA: «Darlington County», «Working on the Highway» and «Cover Me».

After «Waitin’ on a Sunny Day» came a rare «Raise Your Hand«, which included the walk around the pit, but, surprisingly, no crowdsurfing as it could be expected. Instead Bruce went back to the main stage to end the show with powerful versions of «Backstreets», «Badlands» and «Land of Hope and Dreams».

A sign request brought «Jersey Girl«, which opened a strong set of encores with an explosive versión of «Rosalita» after «Born to Run», and the tour debut of the Isley Brother’s «Shout» as show closer.

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Bruce will spend the final day of the 2012 campaign joining President Obama and performing in three cities: Madison (Wisconsin), Columbus (Ohio) and Des Moines (Iowa). The President will kick off the day in Madison, where he will be joined by Bruce Springsteen, who will perform and introduce the President.

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NBC just announced this morning on Matt Lauer’s Toda that there’ll be a one-hour commercial-free telethon and concert on its broadcast network and cable television stations on Friday night to benefit Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The telethon, “Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together,” will be held at NBC’s Rockefeller Plaza studios and hosted by Matt Lauer, the co-host of “Today.” Bruce will perform on the telethon in addition to Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting and Christina Aguilera; Jimmy Fallon, the host of NBC’s “Late Night,” and Brian Williams, the anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” will also appear.

The telethon will be shown simultaneously on NBC, Bravo, CNBC, E!, G4, MSNBC, Style, Syfy and USA, and streamed live on the NBC.com website. It will be broadcast live from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern time for the East Coast and on a tape delay for the West Coast. NBC said that money collected from the telethon would be donated to the American Red Cross.