Slim Dunlap - Girlfriend

First performance: no live dates

Coverinfo

2024-12-20 SiriusXM Studio, New York City, NY

Bruce calls in to E Street Radio to talk with Jim Rotolo about the past year incl. the tour, the upcoming film, and what's next for 2025. They also play the world premiere of Slim Dunlap's "Girlfriend", which is recorded with The E Street Band about a year ago. "Girlfriend" (which is actually listed as “Girlfiend” on the Times Like This cover) is recorded for a yet unreleased covers record that Bruce & The E Street Band were just fooling around with, and working on in the studio. The session was about a year ago in 2023. The reason Bruce released the song on radio was that Slim Dunlap passed away on December 18th. 
 
 

Songinfo

Girlfriend, often misspelled as "Girlfiend", is a song taken from Slim Dunlap's album 'Times Like This'.(1996, Restless Records). Bob "Slim" Dunlap (August 14, 1951 – December 18, 2024) was an American rock musician. He was a Minnesota-based guitarist and singer-songwriter who was best known as a member of The Replacements from 1987 to 1991, replacing original lead guitarist Bob Stinson. Dunlap also recorded two solo albums in the mid-1990s.
 
 
 
 

Other cover versions

Bruce on the artist

2024-12-20 SiriusXM Studio, New York City, NY
 
I don't know if a lot of people are familiar with this member of the replacements. He was really a unique guitarist, singer and songwiter and one of the deepest and truest rock and roll souls I ever heard. He has two fabulous solo albums out that I tell everybody to run out and get and this is a song, I'm not sure wich record it was, but I think times like this ( ....... ) we were just fooling around with the band and this is in honor of Slim Dunlap's passing.

Lyrics

Well it's Saturday night, it's nearly midnight and you're still solo
We ought to see if we can find you a girl
You've been solo so long, some folks around here think you're in slow-mo
We ought to see if we can find you a girl

How about that one back there, I think she likes you
She said you got cute hair, she loves your laugh
Come on!

Hey! We ought to see if we can find you a girl

I'm not saying that you're stupid
I'm not trying to play cupid
But when you tell me you're not lonely
You say it's just you and you only

Hey! We ought to see if we can find you a girl
Hey! We ought to see if we can find you a girl
Hey! We ought to see if we can find you a girl