Bruce Hornsby - 1996-05-06 - Atlanta, GA (SBD)

Bruce Hornsby
1996-05-06
The Roxy Theater
Atlanta, GA
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

CD 1:
01. Hot House Ball
02. Spider Fingers
03. White Wheeled Limousine >
04. Fields of Gray >
05. Under The Boardwalk
06. Stranded on Easy Street
07. Sugaree
08. Rainbow's Cadillac >
09. Walk In The Sun
10. Another Day

CD 2:
01. The Show Goes On
02. Long Tall Cool One
03. Drunken Hiccups >
04. Western Skyline >
05. Masterpiece
06. Across The River
07. Valley Road

Encore 1*:
08. Jumpin' Jack Flash >
09. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry >
10. Mystery Train >
11. Space Captain

Encore 2:
12. Mandolin Rain
13. Cruise Control

*w/Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes

Bruce Hornsby - 1996-05-06 - Atlanta, GA (SBD)

For Bruce Hornsby, the year 1996 marked the 10th anniversary of the release of his 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 the summer of  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 you  a host of shows from Hornsby's 1996 spring tour so you could see for yourself the evolution of his musical style. We;ll start with this soundboard recording from May 6, 1996,  a quarter century ago this very day, from Atlanta.