Joe Ely - All Just To Get To You

First performance: 14/09/1995


Coverinfo

Bruce played the song 7 times: Always together with Joe Ely
 
 
2008-04-14 Toyota Center, Houston, TX
The song featured a guest appearance by Joe Ely. During this show Bruce was also joined onstage by Alejandro Escovedo for "Always A Friend"
  
 
2003-03-02 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX
 
2001-10-19 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Alliance of Neighbors Benefit
Alliance of Neighbors benefit concert with, as well as Bruce, Bon Jovi, Phoebe Snow, Joe Ely, and more. Garry Tallent, the night's musical director, Max Weinberg, and Patti Scialfa are all present. Members of the Pilgrim Baptist Church Celestial Choir of Red Bank, including The Alliance Singers, featuring Michelle Moore, participate in Bruce's set. The shows are to benefit local victims of the September 11 tragedy.

2000-04-17 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX
The Reunion Tour 
  
 
1996-03-17 Mean Fiddler (The), Dublin, Ireland
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" .
 
1995-09-14 Viper Room (The), West Hollywood, CA 
  
 

Songinfo

All just to get to you is a song written by Joe Ely and Will Sexton and released on Ely's 1995 album Letter To Laredo. 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. The album was recorded at Spur Studios (Joe Ely's home studio) in Austin, TX. 
 
 
 

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

    I have stumbled on the plains
    Staggered in the wind
    Stood at a crossroad or two
    Cried to a river
    Swept to the sea
    All just to get to you

    I have jumped a yellow cab
    Hopped a rusty freight
    Sang till my lips turned blue
    Flown a silver bird
    On tops of the clouds
    All just to get to you

    I ran too hard, I played too rough
    I gave my love not near enough
    I bled too red, I cried too blue
    I beat my fist against the moon
    All just to get to you

    I have run from Saint Paul
    To Wichita Falls
    Called you from sunny Baton Rouge
    I hocked everything
    From my watch to my ring
    All just to get to you

    I ran too hard, I played too rough
    I gave my love not near enough
    I bled too red, I cried too blue
    I beat my fist against the moon
    All just to get to you

    From the California Shore
    Where the mighty ocean roars
    To the lands of the Hopi and the Sioux
    Ely and Springsteen: I walked the desert sands
    Crossed the Rio Grande
    All just to get to you

    I have stumbled on the plains
    Staggered in the wind
    Stood at a crossroad or two
    Cried to a river
    Swept to the sea
    All just to get to you

    I ran too hard, I played too rough
    I gave my love not near enough
    I bled too red, I cried too blue
    I beat my fist against the moon
    All just to get to you
    All just to get to you
    All just to get to you
    All just to get to you