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

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.
 
In 1995, Bruce contributed to Joe Ely's album Letter to Laredo, providing back-up vocals. He sang on two songs, "All Just to Get to You" and "I'm a Thousand Miles from Home." Springsteen travelled to Austin around spring 1995 and joined Ely in studio to record his parts.
       
       
       
       
      Bruce had 16 live performances with Joe Ely: 
       
      2014-05-06 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Houston, TX
      2012-03-15 Moody Theater, Austin, TX
      2012-03-14 Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX
      2008-04-14 Toyota Center, Houston, TX
       
      2003-03-02 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX
      "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.."

      2001-10-19 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
      2001-10-18 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
      2000-04-17 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX
      1996-09-29 Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH
      1996-03-17 Mean Fiddler (The), Dublin, Ireland
      1996-01-25 Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX
      1995-09-14 Viper Room (The), West Hollywood, CA
      1993-06-26 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
      1993-06-24 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ

      1993-05-20 RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland
      Joe Ely was also on stage with Bruce on May 20, 1993. singing together in Dublin, Ireland, when they got on stage with Jerry Lee Lewis and Shane MacGowan and sang 'Great Balls of Fire.' During an extended encore, Ely appeared to perform his 1988 tune "Settle for Love" with Springsteen, and then returned to the stage a bit later with Lewis for "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta’ Shakin’ Goin’ On."

      1993-05-19 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
        

      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?