714 Fortunati saw Bruce Springsteen duet with John Fogerty and Tom Morello

A concert by Bruce Springsteen with a series of exceptional guests in front of only 714 people. It was not a flop concert, as one might think, but that's what happened on the weekend to the American Music Honors, an annual event organized at the Monmouth University of West Long Branch in New Jersey by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center that this year celebrated John Fogerty, Tom Morello, Smokey Robinson, Emmylou Harris and Joe Ely.

All the winners, with the exception of Joe Ely, were present on the spot to receive the prize and perform in their classics with the help of Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul and the surprised guests Jackson Browne, Nils Lofgren, Nora Guthrie and Darlene Love. A unique concert, an all-star game not far from what was seen at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, with the only exception that the public was made up of only 714 people. And nothing direct TV, only how much the cell phones in the room were able to record.

The former NBC news Brian Williams was the presenter of the evening during which Springsteen personally kept the speeches in honor of for Ely and Fogerty. In a revival of some of the best moments of the 2004 Vote for Change Tour, Springsteen performed the Creandence Clearwater Revival classics with Fogerty Bad Moon Rising, Proud Mary And Lucky are.

Springsteen also played All Just To Get To Yousong by Joe Ely from 1995, and duetted with Smokey Robinson for Going to a go-gowith Jackson Browne for Take it easy and with Tom Morello for The Ghost of Tom Joad And Tenh Avenue Freeze-Out.

In the end of the evening, all the guests returned to the stage together with Darlene Love and Nora Guthrie for This land is your land. Woody Guthrie's classic was a fixed point of Springsteen concerts in the 80s, but today it became a rarity. The last time Springsteen had played it live was in 2013.

From Rolling Stone Us.