Posts Tagged ‘Bruce Hornsby’


14.07.2019

Bruce Hornsby – Mandolin Rain

Prachtige uitvoering van het lied Mandolin Rain door de Amerikaanse singer/songwriter & pianist Bruce Hornsby, met ondersteuning van Chris Thile op mandoline en strijkers van het Louisville Orchestra.

Hornsby was oprichter van de groep Bruce Hornsby & the Range (1984-1991), bandlid van de Grateful Dead (1990-1992) en speelde mee op platen van o.a. Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan en Don Henley.

Mandolin Rain komt van zijn debuutalbum The Way It Is uit 1986. Hij schreef het nummer samen met zijn broer John Hornsby. De Skaggs/Hornsby versie waar hij het over heeft in zijn inleiding, komt van het album Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby uit 2007, waarop hij samenspeelt met bluegrass legende Ricky Skaggs.

Het radioprogramma waaruit deze live-uitvoering komt, Live From Here, is een variety show met veel muzikale gasten. Gastheer is singer/songwriter & mandoline virtuoos Chris Thile, die bekend werd met zijn groepen Nickel Creek en The Punch Brothers. Ik kan je aanraden op YouTube te kijken op de pagina van het programma voor te gekke muzikale optredens.

Mandolin Rain
The song came and went,
like the times that we spent.
Hiding out from the rain
under the carnival tent.
I laughed and she’d smiled,
it would last for awhile.
You don’t know what you got
till you lose it all again.

Listen to the mandolin rain.
Listen to the music on the lake.
Listen to my heart break
every time she runs away.
Listen to the banjo wind.
A sad song drifting low.
Listen to the tears roll
down my face as she turns to go.

A cool evening dance.
Listen to the bluegrass band,
takes the chill from the air.
‘Till they play the last song.
To the bluegrass band.

I’ll do my time,
keeping you off my mind.
But there’s moments that I find,
I’m not feeling so strong.

Listen to the mandolin rain.
Listen to the music on the lake.
Listen to my heart break,
every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind.
A sad song drifting low.
Listen to the tears as they roll
down my face as she turns to go.

The boat’s steaming in.
I watch the side wheel spin,
and I think about her when
I hear that whistle blow.
I can’t change my mind.
I knew all the time that she’d go.
But that’s a choice I made long ago.

Listen to the mandolin rain.
Listen to the music on the lake.
Listen to my heart break
every time she runs away.
Listen to the banjo wind.
A sad song drifting low.
Listen to the tears as they roll
down my face as she turns to go.
Listen to the tears as they roll
down my face as she turns to go.

10.06.2012

Bruce Hornsby – End Of The Innocence

Het lijkt me heerlijk als je zo’n goede muzikant bent, dat iedereen graag met je samen wil spelen. Zo iemand is de pianist en zanger Bruce Hornsby. Hij speelde met Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Don Henley (Eagles), Elton John, Chaka Kahn, Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac), Bonnie Raitt, Robbie Robertson, Sting en Roger Waters (Pink Floyd). Maar net zo makkelijk ook jazz met Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Branford Marsalis, Pat Metheny en Wayne Shorter en bluegrass met Bela Fleck, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band en Ricky Skaggs.

In 1999 had hij een serie optredens samen met Jackson Browne, Shawn Colvin, David Lindley (steel guitar) & Bonnie Raitt, en om dat onder de aandacht te brengen traden ze op in de tv-show van Jay Leno. Het lied End Of The Innocence werd in 1989 een hit voor Glenn Frey van de Eagles, die zelf de tekst had geschreven bij de muziek van Hornsby.

End Of The Innocence
Remember when the days were long,
and rolled beneath the deep blue sky.
Didn’t have a care in the world,
with mother and daddy standing by.
“Happily ever after” fails,
and we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales.
The lawyers dwell on small details,
since daddy had to fly.

Oh, and I know a place where we can go,
still untouched by man.
We’ll sit and watch the clouds roll by,
and the tall grass waves in the wind

You can lay your head back on the ground,
and let your hair fall all around me.
Offer up your best defence.
Oh this is the end.
Oh this is the end of the innocence.

Oh beautiful for spacious skies.
Now those skies are threatening.
They’re beating ploughshares into swords,
for this tired old man that we elected king.
Armchair warriors often fail,
and we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales.
The lawyers dwell on small details,
since daddy had to lie.

But I know a place where we can go,
and wash away this sin.
We’ll sit and watch the clouds roll by,
and the tall grass waves in the wind

Oh you can lay your head back on the ground,
and let your hair fall all around me.
Offer up your best defence.
But this is the end.
Oh this is the end of the innocence.

Who knows how long this will last,
now we’ve come so far so fast.
But somewhere back there in the dust,
that same small town in each of us.
I need to remember this,
so baby give me just one kiss.
Come and take a long last look,
before we say goodbye

You can lay your head back on the ground,
and let your hair fall all around me.
Offer up your best defence.
Oh this is the end.
Oh this is the end of the innocence.