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Bruce Springsteen has covered veteran New York City rocker Jesse Malin's "She Don't Love Me Now," the latest single from the charity album "Silver Patron Saints. The Songs of Jesse Malin." The triple-vinyl album, out Sept. 20 on Glassnote Records, benefits Malin's Sweet Relief artist fund. In May 2023, Malin, a force on the New York City rock scene since the '80s, suffered a rare stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

“Bruce gave it that Stax soul thing that we dreamed of when we originally recorded it. It's so surreal to me,” says Malin, who recorded the song for his 2015 album, “New York Before the War.”

“Bruce’s generosity, honesty and support are as powerful as his songwriting and performance,” Jesse says. In 2007, Springsteen duetted on Malin’s “Broken Radio,” and for this new version of “She Don’t Love Me Now,” he was backed by Malin’s band, featuring Jake Clemons of the E Street Band on saxophone.