Bruce Hornsby - 1996-06-05 - Williamsport, PA (SBD)

Bruce Hornsby

1996-06-05

Community Arts Center

Williamsport, PA

Soundboard Recording

256 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:

01. Spider Fingers

02. White Wheeled Limousine

03. Walk In The Sun

04. Drunken Hiccups >

05. Western Skyline >

06. When I Paint My Masterpiece

07. Country Doctor

08. Road Not Taken > Workin' In A Coal Mine >

09. Jack Straw

10. Rainbow's Cadillac

11. Long Tall Cool One

2nd Set:

12. The Way It Is

13. Pastures of Plenty

14. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad

15. I'm A Man >

16. Valley Road

17. Tangled Up In Blue

18. Across The River

19. Fields of Grey >

20. Under The Boardwalk > Fields Of Grey

21. Talk Of The Town >

22. Another Day >

23. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry

Encores:

24. Mandolin Rain >

25. That Would Be Something > Brokedown Palace

26. Tango King

27. Show Goes On Intro > Every Little Kiss

Bruce Hornsby - 1996-06-05 - Williamsport, PA (SBD)

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.  This soundboard recording, however, captures, Hornsby just a few weeks before the Further tour launched, performing in Williamsport PA on June 5, 1996, 23 years ago today.  The show features cuts from Hot House, including White Wheeled Limousine, Walk In The Sun, and Country Doctor; some Grateful Dead tunes, assorted cover songs,  and of course, many of Hornsby's earlier classics.

Bruce Hornsby/Allman Brothers Connections

• Bruce Hornsby's early band, Bobby Hi-Test and the Octane Kids, would regularly play Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead covers,
• At the Allman’s February 23, 1991 show at Rafter’s in Crested Butte, Colorado, the band was joined by Hornsby for Southbound towards the beginning of the evening and then One Way Out and “Ramblin’ Man later in the show.
• During the Allman Brothers 40th anniversary run at the Beacon Theater in March 2009, Hornsby sat in with them at the March 21 concert.
• Hornsby played at Greg Altman's inaugural Laid Back Festival in at Jones Beach in New York on August 29, 2015.