Joe Ely - Settle for Love

First performance: 19/05/1993


Coverinfo

Bruce performed the song 5 times: 
 
 
1996-03-17 Mean Fiddler (The), Dublin, Ireland
Settle for love is played with Joe Ely. Also played that night were first performances in Europe of "All Just To Get To You" and "Oh, Boy!", as well as "Long Tall Sally". "Fingernails" is played in a medley with snippets of "That Black Snake Moan", "Matchbox", and "Buddy Brown's Blues" . 
 
Kristen Ann Carr Fund Benefit Concert. The fund is dedicated to fighting Sarcoma. Joe Ely and Terence Trent D'Arby guest. Joe Ely plays guitar and sings on "Lonesome Valley" and "Settle For Love". Terence Trent D'Arby plays guitar and sings on on "Many Rivers To Cross", "I Have Faith In These Desolate Times", "Jole Blon", and "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Sadly, this show is perhaps best known for the Terence Trent D'Arby "event". After D'Arby was booed Bruce admonished the crowd: "Terence Trent D´Arby... need I remind some of you rude motherfuckers that everybody onstage is my guest?".
 
1993-06-24 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
Concert To Fight Hunger to benefit World Hunger Year, The Food & Hunger Hotline and The Community Food Bank Of New Jersey. A night of many guests: Joe Ely plays guitar and sings on "I Ain't Got No Home", "Settle For Love" and "Blowin' Down This Road".
 
"Thank you....I´d like to bring up a friend of mine, uh, we met in Ireland....we just finished a couple of months playing in Europe and uh....we were in Dublin one night and I came and played his show, he came and played at mine, he´s a great, great, great rocker out of Texas, Mr. Joe Ely, gonna come up and sing a song..."

1993-05-20 RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland
  
 

1993-05-19 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland 
Bruce is guesting Joe Ely. First ever Springsteen performances of "Blowin' Down This Road", "Fingernails" (which includes a snippet of "Buddy Brown's Blues"), and "Settle For Love".
 

Songinfo

"Settle for love" is taken from the album "Dig All Night" (1988)
 
 
 

Other cover versions

Bruce on the artist

2003-03-02 - FRANK ERWIN CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
 
"Gonna bring out my good friend Joe Ely down and play with us, come on up....out of a great city of songwriters, the talent that´s come out of Texas, Joe´s one of my very favorites, man.."
 
Bruce also contributed to the studio recording of this song providing back-up vocals, also on 'I’m a thousand miles from home' ( the album was called 'Letter To Laredo' ). Springsteen travelled to Austin around spring 1995 and joined Ely in studio to record his parts.
Joe Elly had occasionally 17 performances together with Bruce Springsteen : Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947, Amarillo, TX) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll. He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo, Los Super Seven, The Clancy Brothers and James McMurtry in addition to his early work with The Clash and more recent acoustic tours with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark.
    All appearances with Springsteen:

    1993-05-19 - NATIONAL STADIUM, DUBLIN, IRELAND 
    1993-05-20 - RDS ARENA, DUBLIN, IRELAND
    1993-06-24 - BRENDAN BYRNE ARENA, EAST RUTHERFORD
    1993-06-26 - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY

    1995-04-00 - SPUR STUDIOS, AUSTIN
    Joe Ely recording session

    1995-09-14 - THE VIPER ROOM, WEST HOLLYWOOD
    1996-01-25 - AUSTIN MUSIC HALL, AUSTIN
    1996-03-17 - THE MEAN FIDDLER, DUBLIN, IRELAND 

    1996-09-29 - SEVERANCE HALL, CLEVELAND, OH
    Woody Guthrie Tribute Concert

    2000-04-17 - FRANK ERWIN CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN

    2001-10-18 - COUNT BASIE THEATRE, RED BANK
    Alliance of Neighbors Benefit

    2001-10-19 - COUNT BASIE THEATRE, RED BANK
    Alliance of Neighbors Benefit

    2003-03-02 - FRANK ERWIN CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
    2008-04-14 - TOYOTA CENTER, HOUSTON
    2012-03-14 - AUSTIN MUSIC HALL, AUSTIN
    2012-03-15 - MOODY THEATER, AUSTIN
    2014-05-06 - CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION, HOUSTON
     

    Lyrics

    You say you want drama
    I'll Give you drama
    You say you want muscle
    I'll give you nerve
    You want sugar
    Would you settle for honey?
    You want romance
    Would you settle for Love?

    Would you settle for love?
    Would you settle for love?
    Would you settle for love or do you need
    All that meaningless stuff?
    Would you settle for love?
    Would it be enough?
    Baby, Would you settle for love?

    You say you want fire
    I'll give you fever
    You want kisses
    I'll give you all I got
    You want diamonds
    I'll Give you rhinestones
    And you want romance
    Would you settle for Love?

    Would you settle for love?
    Would you settle for love?
    Would you settle for love or do you need
    All that meaningless stuff?
    Would you settle for love?
    Would it be enough?
    Baby, Would you settle for love?