Release date
May 26 2015
Track listing
Disc 1
- The Way It Is
- The Valley Road
- Across the River
- Talk of the Town
- Rainbow’s Cadillac
- White-Wheeled Limousine
- Resting Place
- Preacher in the Ring Part 1
- Shadowland
- Try Anything Once
- Halcyon Days
- Song F
- The Dreaded Spoon
- A Night on the Town
- Camp Meeting
- The Black Rats of London
- Song E (Hymn in E)
Disc 2
- Mandolin Rain (live)
- End of the Innocence (live)
- Lost Soul
- Jack Straw
- Country Doctor
- Spider Fingers (Live)
- Hop, Skip and Jump
- Fortunate Son > Comfortably Numb (live)
- Gonna Be Some Changes Made
- Levitate
- Darling Corey (live)
- Cyclone
Personnel
Bruce Hornsby (piano, accordion, vocals, synthesizer, dulcimer); John Molo (drums, percussion); George Marinelli (guitar, backing vocals); Peter Harris (mandolin, guitar); Joe Puerta (bass, backing vocals), Jerry Garcia (guitar); Laura Creamer (backing vocals); Shaun Murphy (backing vocals); Jimmy Haslip (bass); Branford Marsalis (soprano sax); Jeff Lorber (programming); Will Ross (rhythm guitar); Pat Metheny (guitar); Phil Collins (bongos); John Bigham (rhythm guitar, guitar);
Bonnie Raitt (backing vocals); Jean McClain (backing vocals); John Dearth (horns.), Branford Marsalis (horns.); Glenn Wilson (horns.); J.T. Thomas (organ, keyboards, orchestral arrangements); Debbie Henry (backing vocals); John Dearth (trumpet); Bobby Read (saxophone, reeds); Bela Fleck (banjo); Matt Chamberlain (drums); John Pierce (bass); John Leventhal (guitar); Bonnie Bonaparte (drums); David Bendeth (guitar, bass); Doug Derryberry (guitar, vocals); Sonny Emory (drums); Wayne Pooley (guitar); Eric Clapton (guitar); Sting (vocals); Mark Fain (bass); Cody Kilby (guitar, banjo); Andy Leftwich (fiddle); Jim Mills (banjo); Ricky Skaggs (mandolin, guitar, Danelectro, vocals); Christian McBride (bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums); Blake Mills (guitar); Floyd Hill (vocals); Shawn Colvin (vocals); Ornette Coleman (alto sax); Keefus Ciancia (new sounds)
The Essential Bruce Hornsby reviews
AllMusic: “As eccentric as the artist himself, Legacy’s 2015 compilation The Essential Bruce Hornsby may not give casual fans all the hits they know — “Mandolin Rain” is, for one, here in a live version, while “Every Little Kiss” is absent altogether — but this does an excellent job of showcasing Hornsby’s range and idiosyncratic taste.
“There isn’t much from the Range here, all things considered: there’s more from his rangier new millennial band the Noisemakers, plus duets with Ricky Skaggs, jams with jazzbos Jack DeJohnette and Christian McBride, not to mention Grateful Dead covers and a bit of classical music to boot. It’s a lot to shoehorn onto one collection but it definitely shows Hornsby’s versatility, as well as how he’s gotten looser (and possibly better) as he’s moved further away from the charts”.
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