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It seems like the actual performer of the national anthem was Aaron Neville. Even previously announced Mary J. Blige has been changed for Toni Braxton as you can see appended to the news under the link in my first post.
See this http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100912/ap_ … ds_stadium and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV1d1j-3mOII would vote for The Tide Will Rise. According to Brucebase it was played for the last time in 2006.
Thanks!
Another video of Bruce & Branford performing Star Spangled Banner is on Bruce’s box set Intersections.Here is something about SCKBSTD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTd7aeGEt4oOn the title page of the Kink Radio http://www.kink.fm/ it can be seen:Tuesday, December 29, 2009, Time: 3:30 PM.
All I could find is that “Too Much Monkey Business” is originally Chuck Berry song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyipWCVPIeI that was covered on Leon Russell album “Anything Can Happen” from 1992 produced by Bruce.
I also wonder if there is any connection to the musical, anyway — from that 30-second sample — it is a cool version, thanks for finding it!Great find, Rich!
Today I read the latest entries in Bruce’s guestbook and there was the following link to an interesting interview which also mentiones how Bruce searches for a good sound by listening to his shows.
http://www.headcount.org/blog/?p=2825Thanks a lot.
It was interesting for me to compare (with my limited ability to understand the meaning of lyrics when I don’t have them available in written form yet) what I thought was the meaning of songs to what the meaning really is. I am glad I had got it right e.g. in the case of “Simple Prayer”.I didn’t know that Bruce gave his slinky to the public. Has he sold it for the charity or something?
By the way, a little interview from 2004 European tour is now on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG67HkLTBn0
Yes, the interviewer asked him how he called it, and he answered, as you remember, “slinky”.
Regarding songwriting:
The first question of the interview was maybe what people are focusing the most on Bruce’s music, and Bruce answered that it is the piano and the lyrics. Bruce and his brother John are tough critics of each other’s work and they try their lyrics to look good on the paper. Bruce thought The Way It Is would be a B side of some single. It was a fluke that it became such a hit. He compares it to the success of Tracy Chapman and Suzanne Vega. The interviewer asked him about the possibility of loosing one’s edge when trying to get a record deal. Bruce said that getting his record contract was the most difficult thing, and loosing the edge is a possible problem, but he is not writing his songs to make money but to write about things he believes in or to express certain musical ideas. After that they talked about that “slinky”.Englewood review: http://www.kweevak.com/files-articles/r … ornsby.php
I voted “This is great work”. It is hard to compete with his piano work released on previous albums. I understand he didn’t want to concentrate on piano this time. I like signs of modern classical music in this album.
Another interesting article: http://www.redding.com/news/2009/aug/07 … artner=RSSI have found the above-mentioned article some time ago at the Verve vebsite: http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/brucehornsby/bio/.
Recently some new articles appeared at Bruce’s official website: http://www.brucehornsby.com/press.htm.
I have found these new articles today: http://www.app.com/article/20090726/ENT … oes+it+all and http://209.85.135.132/search?q=cache:r3 … clnk&gl=cz.The song “Invisible” will be on Bruce’s next record which is titled “Levitate”, see http://www.cantondailyledger.com/state_ … o-Rockford.
The 8th Annual American Song Festival Winners Booklet
1981
Features Bruce Hornsby of North Hollywood, California: “Only My Heart Knows” as the “Amateur Top 40 Winner”
http://cgi.ebay.com/8th-Annual-American … dZViewItemLet the Girls Rock:
http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id224.htm
http://www.puremusic.com/68bruce6.html
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/acc … onal+rootsFly On the Wall was cowritten with Bernie Taupin and covered by country group Exile in 1987:
http://www.eltonjohnitaly.com/bernie-songs.html
http://www.warnerchappell.it/wcm_2/song … %2C+Bernie
http://www.answers.com/topic/shelter-fr … m-by-exilerdiakun wrote:I wonder if Bruce has ever told any specific stories about the origins and/or inspirations for this song.
RichHi Rich!
I could find an item in Bruce’s guestbook about it:Date 09-26-2004 10:28:22 PM Posted by jacob
hey bruce, what the hell is ‘pastures of plenty’ about? one of my favourites, — hope its on your next live cd. jacobBruce’s Reply:
It’s about a guy who is suffering (an old friend who I won’t name).This review is really indepth:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/revi … p-meeting/
