Download: Bruce Hornsby Cupertino, CA (1998)

This Bruce Hornsby Cupertino show from 1998 has retained its popularity for more than twenty years.

Our Bruuuce.COMmunity Facebook group has gained almost a hundred new members in the last week, with more joining every day. One of the lively topics centred around first concerts attended, and this Bruce Hornsby solo show in Cupertino came up in discussion.

It’s a solo show from 1998, just before Spirit Trail was released (in fact Bruce makes reference to the “upcoming record”) and we get the first play of a few songs from that record. Added to that, covers of Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel, Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Traffic, Van Morrison and of course the Grateful Dead.

We’ll leave the commentary up to August Mozart, who was at the show:

First Hornsby gig was at the Flint Center in Cupertino on a rainy April night. Solo show and he opened with an intro into “Sad Moon”…I remember the “Mandolin Rain” as it was pouring outside. The song that nigh had a special vibe about it that night, very rural West VA feel..like in a old honky tonky bar. He played it I bet the way he wrote it…

Bruce Hornsby Cupertino – April 25 1998

mp3  The Way It Is
» 11.1 MiB - 1,100 downloads

mp3  02. How Far Am I From Canaan
» 7.1 MiB - 1,083 downloads

mp3  03. I Will Walk With You
» 7.1 MiB - 1,183 downloads

mp3  04. Country Doctor
» 8.8 MiB - 1,153 downloads

mp3  05. The Boxer
» 7.0 MiB - 1,149 downloads

mp3  06. The Road Not Taken
» 8.7 MiB - 1,115 downloads

mp3  07. In the Wee Small Hours
» 7.2 MiB - 1,032 downloads

mp3  08. King of the Hill
» 10.2 MiB - 1,047 downloads

mp3  09. Burn Down the Mission
» 8.4 MiB - 1,058 downloads

mp3  10. Harbor Lights
» 7.8 MiB - 1,164 downloads

mp3  11. Swan Song
» 7.1 MiB - 1,005 downloads

mp3  12. Valley Road
» 7.2 MiB - 999 downloads

mp3  13. Look Out Any Window
» 8.1 MiB - 1,003 downloads

mp3  14. Night on the Town
» 8.6 MiB - 1,058 downloads

mp3  15. Mandolin Rain > Brokedown Palace
» 9.4 MiB - 1,092 downloads

mp3  16. (Tupelo Honey)
» 3.4 MiB - 1,072 downloads

mp3  17. On the Western Skyline > Iko Iko
» 8.1 MiB - 1,078 downloads

mp3  18. Song C > Sad Moon
» 12.5 MiB - 1,077 downloads

mp3  19. Rainbow's Cadillac
» 6.5 MiB - 971 downloads

mp3  20. Low Spark of the High-Heeled Boys
» 5.7 MiB - 1,051 downloads

mp3  21. Every Little Kiss
» 7.8 MiB - 1,070 downloads

mp3  22. Spider Fingers > In the Wee Small Hours
» 11.2 MiB - 1,044 downloads

mp3  23. (Thanks)
» 4.4 MiB - 978 downloads

mp3  24. Black Muddy River
» 7.3 MiB - 1,375 downloads

mp3  25. End of the Innocence
» 9.4 MiB - 1,056 downloads