Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and...

's Intersections (1985-2005) is a 4 CD / 1 DVD retrospective boxed set. The tracks are a mixture of previously unreleased live recordings, unreleased studio recordings, and album cuts. The boxed set's title emphasizes the large number of musical collaborations Hornsby has embarked upon during his career, as evidenced by the list of collaborators below.

Track listing

All songs written by Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and...

, except where noted. denotes previously unreleased live version denotes previously unreleased track

Disc one: "Top 90 Time"'

1. "The Way It Is" *
2. "Mandolin Rain
   Mandolin Rain
   "Mandolin Rain" is the third track of The Way It Is, the debut album and commercial zenith for Bruce Hornsby and the Range. The song, released in late 1986, was a #4 hit single for the band in March 1987, following on the success of their previous single, the #1 hit and title track of their debut...
   
   " (w/ J. Hornsby) *
3. "The Valley Road
   The Valley Road
   "The Valley Road" is the title of a song recorded by Bruce Hornsby and the Range. Hornsby co-wrote the song with his brother John Hornsby and co-produced it with Neil Dorfsman...
   
   " (w/ J. Hornsby) *
4. "Jacob's Ladder
   Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)
   "Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song, written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby, that was recorded by Huey Lewis and the News and became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987....
   
   " (w/ J. Hornsby) *
5. "Nobody There But Me" (w/ Haden / J. Hornsby) *
6. "The End of Innocence
   The End of the Innocence (song)
   "The End of the Innocence" is the lead single and title track from Don Henley's third solo studio album, The End of the Innocence, in 1989. The song was written by Bruce Hornsby, with lyrics added by Henley, and both perform the song live in their respective concerts...
   
   " (w/ Henley) *
7. "Look out Any Window" (w/ J. Hornsby) *
8. "Across the River" (w/ J. Hornsby) *
9. "Lost Soul" *
10. "Fields of Gray" > "That's Where It's At" (Campbell, Hooks, Tiven, Tiven) *
11. "Walk in the Sun"
12. "Gonna Be Some Changes Made" *
13. "Dreamland"

Disc two: "Solo Piano, Tribute Records, Country-Bluegrass, Movie Songs"

1. "Song A"
2. "Song B"
3. "Song C"
4. "Song D"
5. "Variations on Swan Song & Song D"
6. "Song F"
7. "Song H" **
8. "Barcelona Mona"
9. "Backhand" (Jarrett)
10. "Jack Straw
    Jack Straw
    Jack Straw , British politician.Jack Straw may also refer to:* Jack Straw , English* "Jack Straw" , 1971 song by the Grateful Dead* Jack Straw by W...
    
    " (Hunter, Weir)
11. "Madman Across the Water
    Madman Across the Water
    Madman Across the Water is the fourth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1971 through DJM/Uni Records. The title song, "Madman Across the Water", was set to be released on Elton John's previous album Tumbleweed Connection. However, it was set aside and would...
    
    " (Elton John
    Elton John
    Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
    
    , Bernie Taupin
    Bernie Taupin
    Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, making his lyrics some of the best known in pop-rock's history.In 1967, Taupin answered an advertisement in...
    
    )
12. "Darlin' Cory" (traditional)
13. "The Valley Road" (w/ J. Hornsby) - bluegrass version
14. "Crown of Jewels" *
15. "Big Stick"
16. "The Valley Road" (w/ J. Hornsby) - performed live with the Grateful Dead *
17. "Hop / Skip and Jump" (Coleman) **
18. "Love Me Still" (w/ Stevens) *
19. "Shadowland"

Disc three: "By Request" (Favorites and Best Songs)

1. "The Show Goes On" *
2. "Barren Ground" (w/ J. Hornsby)
3. "A Night on the Town" (w/ J. Hornsby) *
4. "Talk of the Town" *
5. "Rainbow's Cadillac"
6. "Pastures of Plenty"
7. "Spider Fingers" > "Tempus Fugit
   Tempus Fugue-it
   "Tempus Fugue-it" is a 1949 jazz composition by bebop pianist Bud Powell. It has been recorded by Powell, Miles Davis and many others....
   
   " (Powell) *
8. "White Wheeled Limousine" > "Long Black Veil" (Dill / Wilkin) *
9. "King of the Hill" > "Twelve Tone Tune" (Evans) > "Mystery Train" (Parker / Phillips) *

Disc four: "By Request" Part 2

1. "Resting Place"
2. "Preacher in the Ring, Part I"
3. "Preacher in the Ring, Part II"
4. "Fortunate Son" > "Comfortably Numb
   Comfortably Numb
   "Comfortably Numb" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, which first appears on the 1979 double album, The Wall. It was also released as a single in the same year with "Hey You" as the B-side. It is one of only three songs on the album for which writing credits are shared between Roger...
   
   " (Dave Gilmour, Roger Waters
   Roger Waters
   George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
   
   )" *
5. "Sneaking Up on Boo Radley" *
6. "Shadowhand" *
7. "Sticks & Stones" *
8. "The Chill"
9. "The Good Life"
10. "What the Hell Happened"
11. "Hooray for Tom"
12. "Candy Mountain Run" *

DVD

1. "The Way It Is" music video
   Music video
   A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
   
   
2. "The Valley Road" music video
3. "Look out Any Window" music video
4. "Defenders of the Flag" music video
5. "Across the River" music video
6. "Talk of the Town" music video
7. "Fields of Gray" music video
8. "Walk in the Sun" music video
9. "Swing Street" music video
10. "Go Back to Your Woods w/Robbie Robertson
    Robbie Robertson
    Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...
    
    
11. "Barcelona Mona" w/Branford Marsalis
    Branford Marsalis
    Branford Marsalis is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque.-Biography:Marsalis was born...
    
    
12. "Love Me Still" w/Chaka Khan
    Chaka Khan
    Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...
    
    
13. "The Valley Road" w/Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded...
    
    
14. "The Mighty Quinn" (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    ) w/B. B. King
    B. B. King
    Riley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...
    
     & Lou Reed
    Lou Reed
    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
    
    
15. "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) (as Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead
    The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
    
    )
16. "Comfortably Numb" (Gilmour, Waters) w/Roger Waters
17. "Imagine" (John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
    
    )
18. "Another Day"
19. "The Tide Will Rise" w/Pat Metheny
    Pat Metheny
    Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
    
     & Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
    
    
20. "Talk of the Town" w/Gregory Hines
    Gregory Hines
    Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...
    
    
21. "Star-Spangled Banner (Key)" w/Branford Marsalis
22. "Gonna Be Some Changes Made"
23. "Candy Mountain Run"

"Cast of Characters"

• Bruce Hornsby
  Bruce Hornsby
  Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and...
  
  
• Ornette Coleman
  Ornette Coleman
  Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
  
  
• Shawn Colvin
  Shawn Colvin
  Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician.-Childhood and early career:Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age...
  
  
• Bill Evans
• Jerry Garcia
  Jerry Garcia
  Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
  
  
• Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
  
  
• Big Chief Bo Dollis
• Levon Helm
  Levon Helm
  Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm , is an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequent lead and backing vocalist for The Band....
  
  
• Gregory Hines
  Gregory Hines
  Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...
  
  
• David Hollister
• Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  
• Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...
  
  
• Steve Kimock
  Steve Kimock
  -External links:** at the Internet Archive's live music archive* at the Internet Archive's live music archive* at Internet Archive's live music archive*, San Francisco, April 3, 1999*, Unofficial Fan Forum...
  
  
• Spike Lee
  Spike Lee
  Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....
  
  
• Levi Little
• Branford Marsalis
  Branford Marsalis
  Branford Marsalis is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque.-Biography:Marsalis was born...
  
  
• The Meters
• Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
  
  
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded...
  
  
• The Noise Makers
• Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
  
  
• The Range
• Robbie Robertson
  Robbie Robertson
  Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...
  
  
• Ricky Skaggs
  Ricky Skaggs
  Rickie Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, and banjo.-Early career:...
  
  
• Frank Vincent
  Frank Vincent
  Frank Vincent is an American actor, musician, author and entrepreneur. He is a favorite performer of director Martin Scorsese, having played important roles in three of Scorsese's most acclaimed films: Raging Bull , Goodfellas and Casino . He often plays a gangster and works both in features and...
  
  
• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
  

Musicians

• Bruce Hornsby
  Bruce Hornsby
  Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and...
  
  
• John "J. T." Thomas
• Bobby Read
• J. V. Collier
• Doug Derryberry
• Sonny Emory
  Sonny Emory
  Sonny Emory is a freelance touring and studio drummer. He has worked with many famous acts, including Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Bruce Hornsby, and the B-52's.-Early years:...
  
  
• R. S. Hornsby
• George Marinelli
• John Molo
  John Molo
  John Molo , is an American rock and jazz drummer and percussionist. He has played with a variety of bands, combos, and soloists, including Bruce Hornsby and the Range, The Other Ones, Phil Lesh and Friends, Delaney Bramlett, John Fogerty, Keller Williams, Mike Watt, Paul Kelly, David Nelson,...
  
  
• Joe Puerta
• Jerry Garcia
  Jerry Garcia
  Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
  
  
• Shawn Murphy
• Laura Creamer-Dunville
• Shawn Colvin
  Shawn Colvin
  Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician.-Childhood and early career:Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age...
  
  
• Jimmy Haslip
• Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
  
  
• Levi Little
• David Hollister
• John Paris
• Robert Brookins
• Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  
• Lloyd Jones
• Woody Green
• Ralph Payne
• Branford Marsalis
• Theodore 'Bo' Dollis
• Tim Green
• Clarence Johnson
• Reginald Houston
• Craig Klein
• Jason Marsalis
• Percy Miller
• Joshua Paxton
• Matt Perrine
• Stuart Duncan
• Mark Fain
• Kim Fleming
• Bob Bailey
• Vickie Hampton
• Clay Hess
• Jim Mills
• Ricky Skaggs
  Ricky Skaggs
  Rickie Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, and banjo.-Early career:...
  
  
• Jeff Hanna
• Jimmy Ibbotson
• Jimmie Fadden
• Bob Carpernter
• Jerry Douglas
  Jerry Douglas
  Jerry Douglas may refer to:*Jerry Douglas , actor, who was on The Young and the Restless for 25 years*Jerry Douglas, country/bluegrass musician*Jerry Douglas , director and writer of adult films such as, Score...
  
  
• Roy Huskey, Jr.
  Roy Huskey, Jr.
  Roy Milton Huskey was a prominent American upright bass player in country music from Nashville, Tennessee. Huskey performed alongside musicians such as Chet Atkins, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, George Jones, Steve Earle, Doc Watson and many others...
  
  
• Bernie Leadon
• Mark O'Conner
• Randy Scruggs
  Randy Scruggs
  Randy Scruggs is a music producer, songwriter and guitarist. He had his first recording at the age of 13...
  
  
• Terry Burell
• Rodney Denton
• John Tracy
• Mickey Hart
• Bill Kreutzmann
• Phil Lesh
• Bob Weir
• Vince Welnick
• Ornette Coleman
• Bonny Bonaparte
• John Bigham
• Jean McClain
• John D'earth
• Glen Wilson
• Bonnie Raitt
• Debbie Henry
• Matt Chamberlain
• Kyle Davis
• John Leventhal
• John Pierce
• Michael Baker
• David Bendeth
• Steve Kimock