PEL Presents NEM#209: Bruce Hornsby Is a Lifelong Student

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Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Bruce is best known for his first album The Way It Is (1986), but has come light years since then through 18+ albums, experimenting with different styles, playing over 100 shows with the Grateful Dead, and scoring numerous projects for Spike Lee. He's won three Grammys and recorded with music royalty including Elton John, Ornette Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, etc.

We discuss "Sidelines" (feat. Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend) from 'Flicted (2022), "My Resolve" (feat. James Mercer of The Shins) from Non-Secure Connection (2020), and a new live version of "Shadow Hand" from the 25th Anniversary Edition of Spirit Trail. End song: "Cast-Off" (feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver) from Absolute Zero (2019). Intro: "The Way It Is" (Live from Köln, 2019). More at brucehornsby.com

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0:00.0	You're listening to nakedly examined music a podcast about songs and songwriters.
0:16.0	My name is Mark Linson Meyer. My guest for episode 209 is the legendary Bruce Hornsby.
0:21.6	You're right now hearing his best known song, The Way It Is, originally recorded in 1986.
0:26.6	This is not that version, as we'll talk about.
0:28.8	We will mainly discuss sidelines, a song from his 2022 album Afflicted, My Resolve from his 2020 album,
0:37.0	Non-secure Connection, and a Shadow Hand, again not the original version from his 1998 album Shadow Trail, but a newly recorded live
0:45.8	version released for the 25th anniversary edition of that album in 2003.
0:51.6	We'll conclude by listening to Cast Off from his 2019 album in please see Nakedly Examined Music.com and if you want to support the effort go to
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1:31.8	So I will play it a little bit of some of the live version 2019 of the way it is just to orient folks to remind them of who you are however you were very
1:32.8	insistent don't use the original version use you got to use a recent thing I mean
1:36.0	is this a record company issue or is this just sort of your general attitude
1:39.5	towards wanting to stress the new things as opposed to the old.
1:43.0	Well, I consider myself a slow learner and I'm not a big fan of those early records.
1:47.6	I'm mostly not fan of this guy, the vocalist.
1:51.6	So that's it in a nutshell. I prefer a version of the way it is say or so many
1:56.3	things a live version so that's why very simple were they chorusing the be Jesus
2:01.6	out of your voice at that age?
2:03.0	Because I do feel like those first couple of albums
2:06.0	and then everything after that, in fact I read one review,
2:08.5	it like doesn't sound like the same guy.
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