Zach Bryan has performed ‘Atlantic City’ with Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey – check out fan-shot footage of the performance below.
- READ MORE: Bruce Springsteen live in London: the heartland hero remains firmly at his majestic peak
This past weekend (July 20), Zach Bryan performed at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where he surprised those in attendance with a special guest in the form of The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen.
The moment took place 16 songs into Bryan’s headlining set. He also brought out Caleb Followill, frontman of Kings Of Leon, who were opening for him at the stadium. Together, the three of them – and Bryan’s backing band – performed Springsteen’s 1982 classic ‘Atlantic City’ from his beloved album ‘Nebraska’.
Introducing Followill and Springsteen, Bryan said: “One of them is Caleb Followill from Kings of Leon, one of the sweetest men I’ve ever met. And one of the greatest men to ever exist, a New Jersey native, Mr. Bruce Springsteen.”
Check out fan-shot footage of the moment below.
Later on in the night, Springsteen joined Bryan onstage once more, this time to close out the show with ‘Revival’.
Their joint performance of ‘Atlantic City’ comes almost a year after they first performed the track together in Philadelphia last August. During the August 2024 performance, they also performed their collaboration ‘Sandpaper’, which appeared on Bryan’s July 2024 album ‘The Great American Bar Scene’.
In late June this year, Bryan headlined BST Hyde Park, where he was supported by Dermot Kennedy, Mt. Joy, Gabrielle Aplin, Willow Avalon, Ole 60, Noeline Hofmann, recent NME cover star Waylon Wyatt, Aaron Rowe and Nadia Kadek.
During his BST Hyde Park performance, Bryan invited a persistent fan and TikTok user onstage to play ‘Heading South’ with him. The moment came after the fan made daily viral posts asking the ‘Nine Ball’ singer if he could join him on stage.
As for Springsteen, he recently concluded the biggest tour of his career, which raked in an eye-watering $729.7million (£543m) and sell 4.9million tickets. Back in May, Springsteen made headlines for calling President Donald Trump’s administration “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous” at his show in Manchester. This led to Trump describing him as a “dried out ‘prune’” who “ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the country”.
The Boss also released a live EP, titled ‘Land Of Hope And Dreams’, from the opening night of his 2025 UK and European tour – which includes his speeches heavily criticising the Trump administration.
In other news, Springsteen has confirmed the existence of an electric version of ‘Nebraska’. Elsewhere, he has shared his verdict on Stephen Graham‘s portrayal of his father in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere.
