Here Come the Noise Makers

Bruce Hornsby - Here Come the Noise Makers

Here Come the Noise Makers
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Artist: Bruce Hornsby
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2000-10-24
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Piano Intro/Great Divide
  2. Long Tall Cool One
  3. The Red Plains
  4. The Road Not Taken
  5. Lady With A Fan
  6. Stander On The Mountain
  7. Jacob's Ladder/Blackberry Blossom
  8. Piano Intro/I Loves You Porgy/Nocturne
  9. The Way It Is
  10. Twelve Tone Tune/King Of The Hill
Music CD 2
  1. Spider Fingers/Tempus Fugit
  2. Sneaking Up On Boo Radley
  3. Fortunate Son
  4. The Valley Road
  5. The End Of The Innocence
  6. Sunflower Cat/It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
  7. Rainbow's Cadillac
  8. Mandolin Rain/Black Muddy River

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Music Review: A Great Musical Journey: Extended Sets, Hornsby & Beyond
Rating: 5 Stars

Nearly 15 years into a successful music career, it seemed long overdo for Bruce Hornsby to put out a live album. Bruce has been responsible for some outstanding music and during this period put out six solo albums. His first three albums were actually done as part of "Bruce Hornsby and the Range". This records made the piano maestro Hornsby a Pop star. While his latter three albums didn't have the commercial success, Hornsby would continue to strengthen his niche among his fan following - while continuing to explore some new avenues. With this album, "Here Come the Noise Makers" - Hornsby delivers the goods. This collection is a 2 CD Live Set. It contains 136+ minutes of music! Of the 18 tracks that are included, only 6 tracks are less than 6 minutes (3 of those less than 5 minutes) - this makes for some great extended play music. Hornsby does a great job at providing some nice segues between his music and the music other other Rock artists and even some Classical Composers.

This live collection actually comes from performances over a three year period (1998-2000). These performances include 1999 Woodstock, New Years Eve at Williamsburg Virginia, Austin City Limits (PBS), BET Jazz Central, and various other tour dates. Normally when there is a live release, I prefer the album to be a live recording from a single concert performance. I prefer it to be delivered in the order in which the songs were actually delivered. By having things from a single night and in order - I feel there is continuity and the magic of the concert is captured perfectly. What amazes me is how well this collection was put together. There seems to be a great flow from song to song. It does seem like it was a single performance from a single night. If this was from a single night, this might have even been that much better. One of the things I like best is how it captures the reaction from the audience - particularly you can hear the audience go "Bruuuce" after many of the songs. Usually that homage is reserved for Springsteen, but Hornsby is just as deserving of that honor.

Since the songs were taken from performances between 1998 and 2000, the most songs come from Hornsby's most recent album, the double set - "Spirit Trail". There are five songs that album: "Great Divide", "King of the Hill", "Sneaking Up on Boo Radley", "Fortunate Son", and "Sunflower Cat". If there is one thing that is disappointing is that there is not a lot of material from the "Bruce Hornsby and the Range" days that isn't included. There are a total of 7 songs from this era (i.e. the first 3 albums), this includes: "The Way It Is", "Mandolin Rain", "Red Plains", "The Road Not Taken", "The Valley Road", "Jacobs Ladder", and "Stander on the Mountain". Of those three albums, it seems like "A Night on the Town" was really left out - "Stander on the Mountain" is the only song included on this album.

Hornsby is backed by some solid musicians, but ultimately it is Hornsby's Baldwin Piano that is going to be the star of this collection. I consider Hornsby the pioneer of something that has been called "The Virginia Sound". The best way I can describe this sound is a mixture of a lot of different genres of music: Jazz, Classicial, Bluegrass, Rock, Country, and Pop. On this collection there will be a wide range of instruments incorporated into the songs to give this such a distinct sound: Clarinet, Saxaphone, Guitar, Accordian, and Mandolin. There are times during the performance where Hornsby will go hands-down into a Classical Music Performance. This is found on the "Piano Intro/Great Divide" track where Hornsby "warms up" with some classical piano before going into his "Virginia Sound" on "Great Divide". You'll also hear this on Track 8 which includes a "Piano Intro" before leading into Gershwin's "I Love You Porgy" and then going into Samuel Barber's "Nocturne". Midway through this segue of songs, you'll hear Hornsby go into some notes of his song "The Way It Is" (which he will seamlessly perform following this sequence). You will also hear some Classical Work as a prelude to "King of the Hill" - this is Bill Evans' "Twelve Tone Tune". You'll hear a Jazz influence in several places - particularly when Bruce plays "Spider Fingers" followed by Bud Powell's "Tempus Fight". You'll also hear this strongly on "Sneaking Up on Boo Radley".

Back when Hornsby recorded "A Night on the Town", The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia played guitar on several tracks. Hornsby and Garcia developed a good synergy. With Garcia passing away prior to these recordings, Hornsby pays appropriate tribute by included two songs co-written by Jerry: "Lady With a Fan" and "Black Muddy River" (this song is the finale performed sandwiched inside Hornsby's classic "Mandolin Rain"). Hornsby also pays tribute to Bob Dylan by performing his "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Take a Train to Cry" - this is performed as a segue to Hornsby's "Sunflower Cat". You will hear the popular Huey Lewis song, "Jacobs Ladder" - but this song was written by Hornsby his version is on his "Scenes From the Southside" album. You will hear a traditional instrumental, "Blackberry Blossom" as a segue to "Jacobs Ladder". Finally many know that Hornsby wrote Don Henley's classic song "The End of the Innocence". There is a live version of Bruce performing this song - and this is to place to hear it.

Most of the songs are excellent versions of Bruce's studio work. The liner notes contain a short writeup by Hornsby and list some band members with some acknowledgements to people. There are no lyrics included and the specific songs are not credited to the night they were recorded. Despite these quirks, this is still an excellent collection for true Hornsby fans and new fans alike - Highly Recommended.
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