Bruce Hornsby, an old bastard looking back

Tomorrow Bruce Hornsbywith the support of the regulars Noisemakerswill release a new album titled “Indigo park”. The album’s release was anticipated by the singles “Indigo Park” And “Ecstatic”the latter song features the featuring of Bonnie Raitt. The one with the 76-year-old American musician is not the only collaboration on the album. In addition to her, we can mention the Californian singer-songwriter Blake Millsthose who have disappeared today Bob Weir (singer and guitarist) e Robert Hunter (author) dei Grateful Deadthe drummer Chris Davethe frontman of Vampire Weekend Ezra Koenig and longtime bassist Pino Palladino.

Bruce Hornsby is sailing towards 72 years of age and can say he is proud of a career that has seen him tread the stage of Saturday Night Livecomposed music and soundtracks for the film director Spike Leeplayed for years with i Grateful Deadrecorded two albums with the mandolin virtuoso Ricky Skaggs and a record with Christian McBride And Jack DeJohnettecollaborated with i Good Iver and worked with artists of superior caliber such as Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Chaka Khan, Elton John, Jerry Garcia, Mavis Staples, Ornette Coleman, Robbie Robertson, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Wayne Shorter, Willie Nelson, Brandon Flowers, Danielle Haim, Goose, Jamila Woods And yMusic. To give an even better idea of his artistic corpus, he has been a guest on over two hundred records.

This April, in addition to the release of the new album, also marks the 40th anniversary of the release of his first album “The Way It Is”released as Bruce Hornsby and the Range. This album remains his most successful work in terms of charts – it reached third position – while the title track even reached number one.

It is an impossible task to confine the musician originally from the state of Virginia in a single musical genre. Hornsby’s eclecticism and sensitivity lead him to move perfectly at ease in apparently different and distant worlds such as rock, bluegrass, jazz, classical, electronic and more. Music (in addition to his passion for basketball) is totally at the center of his life. So much at the center that it pushed him to name a son Russell, in honor of Leon Russelland the other Keith, in honor of Keith Jarrett.

The songs featured in “Indigo Park” they are autobiographical snapshots that draw inspiration from the memory of events that happened to him in the past (“I’m an old bastard who looks back at the past (…) When you’re young and inexperienced you know nothing”) which were a lesson for him to focus his thinking nowadays. If the view of the cover of “Indigo Park” it is not entirely new to you, it is only because it portrays the 1921 work, ‘Night Shadows’of the great American painter Edward Hopper.