There are likely very few, if any, with the resume of Steven Van Zandt. His life’s work is as varied and colorful a mosaic as many of the bandanas and groovy shirts that complete his signature look — the chosen uniform of perhaps rock and television’s most preeminent sideman.

The latest entry in his five-decade-spanning career has long been imagined but, even with Van Zandt’s continued creative charge as he nears 71, may not have come to fruition if it weren’t for him being stuck inside his Greenwich Village apartment as COVID-19 eclipsed New York City last year.