Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954 in
Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American
singer, pianist, accordion
player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances,
Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz,
bluegrass, folk, motown, rock, blues, and
jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and the seamless improvisations contained
within.
Hornsby's recordings have been recognized on a number of occasions with industry awards, including the Best New Artist
Grammy for 1986 with Bruce Hornsby and the
Range, the Best Bluegrass Recording Grammy in 1989, and the Best Pop Instrumental
Grammy in 1993.
Hornsby has also achieved recognition for his solo albums and performances, his current live act Bruce Hornsby & the
Noise Makers, his bluegrass project with Ricky Skaggs, his jazz act The Bruce
Hornsby Trio, and his appearances as a session- and guest-musician. He also collaborated with the Grateful Dead.
Early years/background information
Hornsby grew up listening to all types of music.[2] He studied music at the University of
Richmond, as well as Berklee College of Music and the University of Miami, from which he graduated in 1977.[3][4]
In the spring of 1974, Hornsby's brother Bobby, who was a brother of the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity at the University of Virginia, formed a band, "Bobby Hi-Test and the
Octane Kids" to play fraternity parties, featuring Bruce on Fender Rhodes and
vocals.[5] The band, which is listed
in Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, performed covers of Allman
Brothers Band, The Band, and predominantly Grateful
Dead songs.[5] Although
Hornsby's collaboration with Bobby Hornsby would be relatively short-lived, at present, his brother Bobby's son, R. S., is a
recurring guest-guitarist with Hornsby's band and periodically tours with his uncle.[3][4]
Following his graduation from the University of Miami, in 1980, he and his
brother (and songwriting partner) John Hornsby moved to Los Angeles, where they spent three years writing for 20th
Century Fox.[6] Hornsby also
spent time in Los Angeles as a session
musician and touring with Sheena Easton's band[7] before moving back to his native southeastern Virginia.[4]
Outside the realm of music, Hornsby is a good basketball player and an avid fan of the
sport.[8] As such, he can
frequently be seen at college basketball games around the state of Virginia.[4]
Range years
In 1984 he formed Bruce Hornsby and the Range, who were signed to RCA Records in
1985. Besides Hornsby, Range members were David
Mansfield (guitar, mandolin, violin), George Marinelli (guitars and backing vocals),
Joe Puerta (bass guitar and backing vocals), and
John Molo (drums).
Hornsby's recording career started with the biggest hit he would ever have, entitled "The Way
It Is". It topped the American music charts in 1986.[9] With a propulsive yet contemplative piano riff and the refrain, That's just the way
it is, some things will never change, the song was catchy and described aspects of the American Civil Rights movement and institutional racism.[10] The song also hit a
nerve with the American public, reflecting dissatisfaction with economic decline in the early-to-mid 1980s. In years to come, the
song would be sampled by at least six rap artists, including Tupac Shakur, E-40, and Mase.[9]
With the success of the single worldwide, the album The Way It
Is went multi-platinum[11] and produced another top five hit with "Mandolin Rain"
(co-written, as many of Hornsby's early songs were, with John Hornsby).[9] "Every Little Kiss" also did
respectably well.[9] Other
tracks on the album helped establish what some labeled the "Virginia sound", a mixture of rock, jazz, and bluegrass with an
observational Southern feel.[12] Bruce Hornsby and the Range would go on to win the
Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1986.
Bruce
Hornsby Timeline
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1984-1991 |
Bruce Hornsby and the Range |
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1990-1992 |
Grateful Dead |
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1993-1995 |
Solo Albums: Harbor Lights & Hot
House |
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1996-1998 |
Furthur Festivals & The Other Ones, Solo Album:
Spirit Trail |
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1998-present |
Bruce Hornsby and the Noise Makers |
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2007-present |
Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby |
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2007-present |
The Bruce Hornsby Trio (with Christian McBride &
Jack DeJohnette) |
Hornsby and the Range's second album, Scenes From The Southside (on
which Peter Harris replaced Mansfield) was released in 1988. It featured such hits as
"Look Out Any Window" and "The Valley Road" which many critics noted due to their "more spacious" musical arrangements, allowing
for "more expressive" piano solos from Hornsby.[8][13] The song "Jacob's Ladder" was featured as well, having originally been written by
Hornsby for musician friend Huey Lewis; Lewis' version became a number one hit from his album
Fore!.[14] Scenes was successful as an album, once again offering slices of "Americana" and
"small-town nostalgia,"[13] but it would be the group's last album to perform so well in the
singles market.[8]
In 1988, Hornsby first appeared on stage with the Grateful Dead, a recurring
collaboration that would continue until the band's dissolution.[15] Hornsby went on to appear on stage frequently as a guest
before becoming a regular fixture in the touring lineup for the Dead a few years later. During the late 1980s and early 1990s
Hornsby worked extensively as a producer and sideman, notably producing a comeback album for Leon
Russell, an idol of Hornsby's.[6] In 1989 Hornsby co-wrote and played piano on Don
Henley's big hit "The End of the Innocence". In 1991 Hornsby played piano on Bonnie Raitt's popular hit
"I Can't Make You Love Me". Hornsby would feature both of these songs in his
own concerts. He also appeared on albums by Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Crosby Stills and
Nash, and Squeeze during this time period.[8]
During this era, Hornsby slowly began to slip jazz and bluegrass elements into his music, first in live performance settings
and later on studio work.[9]
In 1989, he first performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. He also
reworked his hit "The Valley Road" with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for their
album Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two. The song
won at the 1990 Grammy Awards for Best
Bluegrass Recording.
A Night On The Town was released in 1990, on which he teamed up with jazz musicians Wayne Shorter and
Charlie Haden as well as bluegrass pioneer Bela Fleck.
A change in style became apparent as the album was much more rock- and guitar-driven, making use
of Jerry Garcia's guitar work on a number of tracks, perhaps most prominently on "Across
the River".[16] In concert, Hornsby and the Range began to stretch out their songs,
incorporating more and more "freewheeling musical exchanges."[9] Critics received the album quite well, praising it for its production, its political
relevance, and Hornsby's gestures toward expanding out of a strictly pop sound by incorporating jazz and bluegrass.[16] Ultimately,
though, the core "rock band" sound of the Range limited Hornsby's aspirations, and after a final three-week tour in 1991, Hornsby
disbanded the outfit to enter a new phase of his career.[9] Drummer John Molo continued to perform regularly
with Hornsby, although other members pursued separate musical endeavors.
Hornsby playing accordion in New York's Central Park
Hornsby & the Grateful Dead
Bruce Hornsby played piano (and frequently accordion)
nightly with the Grateful Dead from September 1990
through March 24, 1992. Hornsby played with the band
following the death of Brent Mydland and preceding the acceptance of Vince Welnick as sole keyboardist.
Hornsby's own music evolved significantly during this time period, although his primary performative project remained the
Grateful Dead. Critics have suggested that Dead's vibrant tradition of melding folk music and
the blues with psychedelic rock in "loose-knit
expressions" and extended jamming "further pushed [Hornsby] outside the confines of mainstream pop."[9] Critics have also commented upon
the "close musical connection"[17] formed between Hornsby
and Jerry Garcia, suggesting that Hornsby's particular style of jazz-fueled improvisation
added to the band's repertoire[18], and helped to
revitalize and refocus Jerry Garcia's guitar solos in the band's sound.[15] Hornsby's friendship with Garcia would continue, both
inside and outside the band, as the two would "challenge" each other to expand their musicianship through several other album and
live collaborations.[2] Above all,
Hornsby's musical versatility and ability to slip in and out of extended freeform jams won over longtime Grateful Dead
fans.[19]
Hornsby originals "The Valley Road" and "Stander on the Mountain" appeared several times in the Dead's setlists. Hornsby also
co-performs the improvisation "Silver Apples of the Moon" for the Grateful Dead's Infrared
Roses. His relationship to the Grateful Dead would continue on a less regular basis until the Grateful Dead ended in
1995; in all he made over a hundred concert appearances with them. Beginning in the early
1990s, and continuing to the present, Hornsby's live shows have drawn Deadheads; Hornsby
reflects upon this phenomenon as follows: "I've always liked the group of fans that we've drawn from the Grateful Dead time,
because those fans are often adventurous music listeners."[3] Hornsby has paid tribute to his time with the Dead by performing a number of their songs
during his concerts and by various homages on studio and live albums.[15]
In 1994 the Grateful Dead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the ninth annual induction dinner. Bruce Hornsby was their
presenter.[20] To this day, Hornsby continues to work with
Dead-related projects, such as Bob Weir's Ratdog,
Mickey Hart's solo projects, and in 2005 participated
in a tribute concert to Jerry Garcia, "Comes a Time."
Solo years
The solo records
Hornsby would go on to release his first solo album, Harbor Lights, in
1993. This record showcased Hornsby in a more jazz-oriented setting and featured an
all-star lineup, including Pat Metheny, Branford
Marsalis, Jerry Garcia, Phil Collins,
and Bonnie Raitt. Unlike earlier albums, Harbor
Lights allowed more space for Hornsby's and guest-players' "extended instrumental" solos to "flow naturally" out of
the songs.[21]
The tone was set by the opening title track, which after 50 seconds of expansive solo piano lurches into an up-tempo jazz number,
ending with Metheny's guitar runs. The album closes in a similar fashion with "Pastures of
Plenty", this time with an extended guitar solo from Garcia intertwined with Hornsby's piano. Hornsby also quotes the main
musical phrase from the Grateful Dead's "Dark
Star" as the jazz head to his song about tensions surrounding a biracial relationship, "Talk of the Town".[15] The mid-tempo
"Fields of Gray", written for Hornsby's recently-born twin boys, received some modest radio airplay. Harbor Lights was well-received by critics and fans, who praised it for its "cooler, jazzier
sound" and its "affinity for sincere portraits of American life, love, and heartache."[21] Hornsby would also secure his third Grammy in 1993 for
Best Pop Instrumental for "Barcelona Mona" (composed with Branford Marsalis for the
Barcelona Olympics).
Hot House (1995) cover art, featuring an imagined jam session with Charlie Parker and Bill Monroe
In 1995, Hot House was released with its cover art, featuring an imagined
jam session between bluegrass legend Bill Monroe
and jazz legend Charlie Parker, serving as an apt metaphor
for the rich fusion of musical styles Hornsby was currently developing and expanding. This album would find Hornsby expanding
upon the foray into jazz sound from Harbor Lights, this time reintroducing
elements of bluegrass from A Night On The Town and his
earlier collaborations.[22] Much like the
socially-conscious lyrics of his earlier work, the underlying messages behind the catchy tunes are often very dark, such as on
"Country Doctor", "Hot House Ball" and "White Wheeled Limousine", where story-telling lyrics build around spousal
murder, nuclear disaster, and
wedding-day adultery, respectively.[14] The album featured many of the same guests as on his previous record, such as Pat Metheny and Jimmy Haslip. Béla
Fleck also collaborates again on banjo.
As a testament to Hornsby's willingness to allow songs space to grow and evolve, it is worth noting that the song "White
Wheeled Limousine" had debuted five years earlier as an encore to Branford Marsalis's opening act for the Grateful Dead's
12/31/90 New Year's Concert, (Marsalis and Rob Wasserman joined Hornsby in the
performance).[15] The Hot House version of "White Wheeled Limousine" pairs
Pat Metheny's guitar with Béla Fleck's banjo for a blisteringly intricate call-and-response
alongside Hornsby's piano runs.[14] Hot
House also makes an homage to Hornsby's years with the Dead via his recasting of the chorus/bridge of the Dead's song
"Estimated Prophet" as the newly-lyricized Hornsby tune "Tango King."[15] The album also boasts a more prominent role for
Harbor Lights alum John D'earth on trumpet and introduces Bobby Read on
woodwinds and J. V. Collier on bass. Read and Collier continue to perform with Hornsby to this date.
| "To be creative, spontaneous in the moment and make music in the present tense, that's what we're
all about live. I write the songs, we make the records and then the records become a departure point, the basic blueprint, the
basic arrangement. I'm fairly restless creatively. I was never a very good Top 40 band guy because I never liked to play the same
thing every time. Too often songwriters approach their songs like museum pieces. I don't subscribe to that. I think of my songs
as living beings that evolve and change and grow through the years."[3] |
| — Bruce Hornsby |
During this time period, "even his concerts conveyed a looser, more playful mood, and Hornsby began taking requests from the
audience."[9] Hornsby's
concerts became "departure points" for his album compositions, which would be blended with and reworked into "lengthy spontaneous
medleys".[3][9] Both in terms of audience
requests and in terms of spontaneous on-stage decisions, Hornsby's performances became opportunities for him to challenge himself
by trying to "find a way to seamlessly thread these seemingly disparate elements together."[9]
Hornsby next worked with several Grateful Dead reformation projects, including several Furthur Festivals and the ultimate
formation of The Other Ones, which resulted in the release a live album,
The Strange Remain. Hornsby's piano and vocals
factor heavily into the band's performance of classic Dead tunes "Jack Straw" and "Sugaree" (which features Hornsby on lead
vocal, in Jerry Garcia's absence), and Hornsby-originals "White-Wheeled Limousine" and "Rainbow's Cadillac" receive reworkings in
the hands of The Other Ones.[15]
Hornsby's uncle's goofy pose set the tone for
Spirit Trail (1998), Hornsby's first double-album effort
Three years after Hot House, Hornsby released a double album, Spirit Trail. Featuring a decidedly goofy picture of his uncle on the cover, the collection blends
instrumental tracks with the story-telling, rock, jazz, and other musical forms Hornsby had
delved into over his career. Over the two discs, Hornsby weaves a tapestry of varied textures, from the fervent spirituality then
almost gospel dirge of "Preacher in the Ring, parts I & II," to the catchy chord progressions
of "Sad Moon."[23] Among other
homages, the song "Sunflower Cat (Some Dour Cat) (Down With That)" samples and loops the main lick from the Grateful Dead song
"China Cat Sunflower."[15] In some of the songwriter's most poignant lyrics to date, Spirit Trail
considers "very Southern" themes with "songs about race, religion, judgment and tolerance" and "struggles with these
issues."[23]
Throughout the sequence of Harbor Lights, Hot House, and
Spirit Trail, Hornsby's piano playing steadily gained further complexity, taking on a more varied array of musical styles
and incorporating more and more difficult techniques, as evidenced by his two-hand-independence on Spirit Trail's "King of
the Hill."[23] During this same
span of solo album years, Hornsby made several mini-tours playing solo piano gigs for the first time in his career.[14] These shows allowed Hornsby limitless
possibilities for seguing songs into other songs, often blurring lines between classical compositions, jazz standards,
traditional bluegrass, folk, and fiddle tunes, Grateful Dead
songs, and, of course, reworkings of Hornsby originals.[15] Hornsby reflected on these periods of intensive solo performances stating that
these solo tours helped him "recommit [himself] to the study of piano" and "take [his] playing to a whole new level",
explorations and improvisations that would not be possible in a band setting.[23]
Hornsby & the Noise Makers
Hornsby's own touring band line up underwent extensive changes during the period from 1998 to 2000 as well, not the least of which was the apparent end
of musical collaboration with long time drummer John Molo, who then became former
Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh's regular drummer in
his post-Dead band Phil Lesh & Friends.[15] A set of twenty
consecutive shows performed by Hornsby and his band at Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland,
CA would mark a particularly innovative period of evolution for his live shows; here Hornsby and his band were "able to
explore songs in a completely spontaneous fashion".[24] As Hornsby experimented with a different sound, ushering in frequent
collaborations with such musicians as Steve Kimock on guitar and Bobby Read on heavily
effects-driven electronic woodwinds, his current band, dubbed Bruce Hornsby & the Noise Makers, took shape. In 2000,
Hornsby chronicled this journey with a compilation live album entitled Here Come
The Noise Makers, and did extensive touring with his new band featuring John "J. T." Thomas (keyboards, organ), Bobby Read (saxophones, woodwinds, flute), J.
V. Collier (bass), Doug Derryberry (guitar, mandolin), and several different drummers before Sonny Emory took over
full-time.
Hornsby performing a solo piano show June 21, 2005 in North Bethesda, MD, audience requests visible across keyboard
Here Come The Noise Makers not only captures the ambience of one of
Hornsby’s concerts, but it also reflects the vibrant temperament and true stylistic diversity with which he approaches his craft,
treating the live performance like a journey in search of the perfect musical moment.[9][19] With this album, Hornsby is determined to create a hybrid style that encompasses
rock, jazz, and classical
music within a jam band mentality."#wp-_note-allmusic-herecomethenoisemakers">[25] The concert musical experience
captured on the album embodied the gestures towards complete improvisatory musical spontaneity and towards recasting old songs as
unrecognizably new that so much of Hornsby's solo work had been forecasting, this time in a full band setting.[9] The album covers pieces by many
of Hornsby's musical influences, George Gershwin, Samuel
Barber, Bill Evans, Bud Powell, and
Bob Dylan among them.[25] Hornsby directly acknowledges the influence of the
Dead by performing their songs "Lady with a Fan" and "Black Muddy River"[19] and by including a version of "The Valley Road" that seems to have "emerged from the
Grateful Dead's "Wharf Rat."[24]
His next studio album of new material was not until 2002: Big Swing Face. This album marked Hornsby's most experimental effort to date; Big Swing Face,
the only album on which Hornsby does not play any piano, relies heavily on post-electronica beats,
drum loops, Pro Tools editing, and dense synthesizer arrangements.[26] The album also
boasts a "stream-of-consciousness wordplay" of lyrics that are in many ways more eccentric and humorous than previous
work.[27] The
jazz fusion jam on "Cartoons & Candy" and the gesture towards Hornsby's jam band influence with Steve Kimock's extended guitar solo on "The Chill" highlight some of the album's only familiar territory[27], and Hornsby cites
the opening track, "Sticks and Stones," as his partial homage to Radiohead's "Everything in
its right place."[28]
Big Swing Face met mixed reviews ranging from "a new and improved Bruce Hornsby"[29] to feeling as if "someone else is singing" to the album
being called one of the "strangest records of 2002."[26] Album sales were not helped by poor promotion from RCA, perhaps prompting
Hornsby's decision to leave the label.[28]
In 2004, after 19 successful years on RCA Records, Hornsby returned to a more acoustic,
piano-driven sound on his Columbia Records debut Halcyon Days, which reviewers referred to as "pure Hornsby".[30] Guests
included Sting, Elton John, and Eric Clapton. The tracks "Gonna Be Some Changes Made," "Candy Mountain Run," "Dreamland," and "Circus On
The Moon" would become quick concert staples, each showcasing the diversity of Hornsby's improvisations and the Noise Makers'
live sound. Notably, Halcyon Days also includes a suite of solo piano songs—"What The Hell Happened To Me," "Hooray For
Tom," and "Heir Gordon"—which all have a "Randy Newman pastiche."[29] Although the album was
markedly less-risk-taking than Big Swing Face, it would be well-received as a
"winning balance of [Hornsby's] tuneful and adventurous sides."[30] Throughout tours following the album's release, both with
the Noise Makers and in solo performances, Hornsby continued to demonstrate his desire to "grow" as a singer and performer and to expand the instrumental possibilities of the
piano in various genres.[12]
During this time period, Hornsby also began to offer CD-sets/digital downloads of digitally-mastered soundboard recordings of
live concerts via the Bruce Hornsby Live website; selected concerts have been offered from 2002 to the present.
In July 2006, Hornsby released a 4 CD/1 DVD box set titled Intersections (1985-2005). The discs are thematically broken into three categories: “Top
90 Time,” “Solo Piano, Tribute Records, Country-Bluegrass, Movie Scores,” and “By Request (Favorites and Best Songs)” (2 CDs),
with a full third of the music previously unreleased, and the majority of the remaining tracks from single “B” sides and
aforementioned collaborations and/or tribute albums and movie soundtracks.[31] Some noteworthy collaborations include a
piano-and-saxophone duet with Ornette Coleman and a
performance with Roger Waters of Pink Floyd's
"Comfortably Numb."[32] The
set also offers a number of excellent examples of Hornsby's re-inventiveness with his own compositions, particularly in a live
setting[33], for instance three different versions of “The
Valley Road” are included--a live "bluesy funk" version with the Noise Makers, a Grammy-winning bluegrass version with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and "a loose and sloppy but totally grooving boogie" take with the
Grateful Dead.[31] Critics have said that Hornsby's particular integrations of different
musical genres, and his passion for reinventing his own compositions, create a kind of music many might "never hear" otherwise as
it is "a kind of music no one else is making."[2] All ticketholders on Hornsby's 2006 Solo Piano tour received a free copy of this set. Among
Intersections (1985-2005) is the Grammy nominated track "Song H," a new composition which competed for Best Pop
Instrumental at the 2007 Grammy Awards.
The Noise Makers
Skaggs & Hornsby/The Bruce Hornsby Trio (2007-present)
With the arrival of 2007, Hornsby would see two new musical projects come to fruition with the release of two new albums.
The bluegrass album
Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby (2007) topped Billboard's Bluegrass charts for several weeks
after its release in March
Dating back to a 2000 collaboration on the track "Darlin' Cory" for Big Mon, a
Bill Monroe bluegrass tribute album, Bruce Hornsby
and Ricky Skaggs had discussed launching a project together.[34] In
March 2007, the duo, backed by Skaggs's band Kentucky Thunder, released the bluegrass
album Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby, and set several
tourdates together. Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby combine bluegrass, traditional country, "a tinge of Hornsby's jazzy piano and a splash of humor" on a spectrum of songs from the traditional
"Across the Rocky Mountain" and "Hills of Mexico" to new compositions such as the opening track "The Dreaded Spoon," "a humorous
tale of a youthful ice cream heist."[35] The pair also reinvent Hornsby's hit "Mandolin Rain" as a minor key acoustic
ballad and "give his cautionary tale of backwoods violence", "A Night On the Town," a treatment highlighting the "Appalachian
storytelling tradition that was always at the song's heart."[35] The album ends a surprise cover of Rick
James's funk hit "Super Freak" in a bluegrass
arrangement. Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby would top Billboard's
bluegrass charts for several weeks after its release.[36]
As Hornsby carves out a newfound place for piano within traditional bluegrass, disproving the
notion that the piano is not compatible with "string-oriented" bluegrass[32], critics have called his playing and songwriting "centered,
focused, and inspired."[34]
The album
Camp Meeting (2007), set for release on August 7, marks Hornsby's first jazz release and first album with
The Bruce Hornsby Trio
Simultaneous to the bluegrass project, Bruce Hornsby has formed The Bruce Hornsby Trio and recorded a jazz album titled Camp Meeting. Hornsby is joined in his trio
by jazz giants Christian McBride (bass) and
Jack DeJohnette (drums). A release in August 2007 is expected.[37] Alongside
original compositions by Hornsby, the trio delivers "newly reharmonized versions" of tunes by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, and a previously unrecorded Ornette
Coleman work titled "Questions and Answers" as well as an early Keith Jarrett composition
"Death and the Flower."[38] The trio will make a series
of appearances in the summer of 2007, at the Playboy Jazz Festival, the
Newport Jazz Festival, and at the Hollywood
Bowl, among other bookings.[4][39]
During 2007, Hornsby made concert appearances of historical import. On January 4, former
Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart reunited along with Hornsby,
Mike Gordon (of Phish and the Rhythm Devils) and Warren Haynes to play two sets at a
post-inauguration fundraising party for Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as
Speaker of the House in the United States
Congress. They were billed as "Your House Band" and performed some Dead classics such as "Truckin'" and "Touch of Grey". Other performers appearing at the event
included Tony Bennett, Wyclef Jean and
Carol King. [40]
Additionally, Bruce Hornsby & The Noise Makers hosted an evening of rock,
R&B and progressive bluegrass on May 12, 2007, to
honor America's beginnings 400 years ago at Jamestown, Virginia. Hornsby was joined
by some of his Grammy-winning friends, including legendary funk and R&B artist Chaka Khan and progressive bluegrass master Ricky
Skaggs and his band Kentucky Thunder.[41]
Bruce Hornsby has also been writing songs for a Broadway Musical. One song from this
project, a playful biographical tune titled "Donald Trump Song," has made several appearances in setlists during Hornsby's
early-2007 solo piano performances.[4]
Outside of music composition and performance, Hornsby has taken an ownership interest in Williamsburg area radio station "The
Tide", WTYD 92.3 FM, and he has endowed a scholarship at University of Miami's School of Music,
encouraging recipients to study songwriting broadly across traditional genres.[4] He continues to reside with his family outside of Williamsburg, Virginia.
Discography
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Bruce Hornsby albums
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- with The Range
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- Solo work
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- with The Noise Makers
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- with Ricky Skaggs
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- with The Bruce Hornsby Trio
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- Compilations
- Greatest Radio Hits (2004)
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- Bruce Hornsby Live
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Albums with associated acts
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- with the Grateful Dead
- Infrared Roses, Grateful Dead, (1991)
- Dick's Picks Volume 9, Grateful Dead, (1997)
- So Many Roads (1965-1995), Grateful Dead, (1999)
- Dick's Picks Volume 17, Grateful Dead, (2000)
- View From The Vault, Volume Two, Grateful Dead, (2001), also
released as DVD
- Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 11, Grateful
Dead, (2006)
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- with The Other Ones
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- Grateful Dead-related Album Contributions
- Deadicated, Various Artists, (1991)
- Grayfolded : Transitive Axis, Grateful Dead / John Oswald, (1994)
- Grayfolded : Mirror Ashes, Grateful Dead / John Oswald, (1995)
- The Concert For The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Various Artists, (1996)
- Mystery Box, Mickey Hart, (1996)
- Furthur, Various Artists, (1997)
- Furthur More, Various Artists, (1997)
- Grayfolded, Grateful Dead / John Oswald, (1996)
- Furthur Most, Various Artists, (2000)
- Over The Edge And Back, Mickey Hart, (2002)
- Gilford, NH, September 2, 2005, Ratdog, (2005)
- Atlantic City, NJ, September 4, 2005, Ratdog, (2005)
- Pure Jerry: Hampton, Virginia, November 9, 1991, Jerry Garcia Band, (2006)
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