Bruce Hornsby - 1996-04-22 - St Louis, MO (SBD)

Bruce Hornsby

1996-04-22

Mississippi Nights

St. Louis, MO

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Spider Fingers > (Mountain Jam)

02. White Wheeled Limousine > (My Baby Wrote Me A Letter)

03. Hot House Ball

04. Drunken Hiccups >

05. Western Skyline >

06. Masterpiece

07. Scarlet Begonias

08. Fields of Gray

09. Under The Boardwalk

10. The Changes

11. Rainbow’s Cadillac

12. Across The River

13. Wharf Rat >

14. Talk Of The Town

15. Defenders Of The Flag

16. Carry The Water

17. Valley Road

Encore:

18. Mandolin Rain >

19. Brokedown Palace

20. Walk In The Sun >

21. Cruise Control

Bruce Hornsby  - 1996-04-22 - St Louis, MO (SBD)

Bruce Hornby 1996 - Back To Back - #1: The year 1996 marked the 10th anniversary of the release of Bruce Hornsby's Grammy Award winning debut album, The Way It Is. Rather than look backward, however, Hornsby continued to find ways to push his musical style forward. The cover of his recently released album, Hot House, featured an imagined jam session between bluegrass legend Bill Monroe and jazz legend Charlie Parker, two genres of music that Hornsby incorporated into the songs on that disc. The album also featured guest appearances by such diverse artists as Bela Fleck, Pat Metheney and the late Jerry Garcia. During this period, Hornsby's concerts took on a more improvisational tone, as he often took requests from the audience, rather than work from a set list. He would challenge himself to find ways to seamlessly string together diverse requests, turning the album versions of songs into more complex arrangements. As he says on his website, "I think of my songs as living beings that evolve and change and grow through the years." In his continuing quest to grow and evolve his music, Hornsby also participated in the Further Festival in 1996, one of the many Grateful Dead family endeavors launched in the wake of the death of Jerry Garcia. His band played along with Bob Weir & Ratdog, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box, Hot Tuna, Los Lobos and others. Given all that, we figured it would be great to bring yo a host this month a host of shows from Hornsby's 1996 spring tour so you could see for yourself the evolution of his musical style. This soundboard recording captures, Hornsby on April 22, 1996, 26 years ago today in St. Louis,  Download this one, come back later tomorrow and the next day for parts 2 and 3 of this set.