Here Come the Noise Makers explained

Here Come the Noise Makers
Type:Live album
Artist:Bruce Hornsby
Cover:HornsbyandNoise.jpg
Released:October 24, 2000
Genre:Rock
Jam band
Jazz
Bluegrass
Label:RCA
Producer:Wayne Pooley, Bruce Hornsby
Prev Title:Spirit Trail
Prev Year:1998
Next Title:Big Swing Face
Next Year:2002

Here Come the Noise Makers was the first live album by American singer and pianist Bruce Hornsby. It is a double album comprising songs recorded between 1998 and New Year's Eve 1999/2000. It was Hornsby's first album with his touring act the Noisemakers.

The album not only captures the ambience of one of Hornsby’s concerts, but also reflects the vibrant temperament and true stylistic diversity with which he approaches his craft, treating the live performance like a journey in search of the perfect musical moment.[1]

With this album, Hornsby is determined to create a hybrid style that encompasses rock, jazz, and classical music within a jam band mentality.[2] The concert musical experience captured on the album embodied the gestures towards complete improvisatory musical spontaneity and towards recasting old songs as unrecognizably new that so much of Hornsby's solo work had been forecasting, this time in a full band setting. The album covers pieces by many of Hornsby's musical influences, George Gershwin, Samuel Barber, Bill Evans, Bud Powell and Bob Dylan among them. Hornsby directly acknowledges the influence of the Grateful Dead by performing their songs "Lady with a Fan" and "Black Muddy River"[3] and by including a version of "The Valley Road" that seems to have "emerged from the Grateful Dead's "Wharf Rat."[4]

Track listing

All songs by Bruce Hornsby, except where noted.

Disc 1

  1. "Piano Intro"/"Great Divide" - 7:47
  2. "Long Tall Cool One" - 7:54
  3. "The Red Plains" (Bruce Hornsby, John Hornsby) - 5:58
  4. "The Road Not Taken" - 7:22
  5. "Lady with a Fan" (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:24
  6. "Stander on the Mountain" - 7:51
  7. "Jacob's Ladder"/"Blackberry Blossom" (Bruce Hornsby, John Hornsby/Traditional) - 4:31
  8. Piano Intro/"I Loves You Porgy"/"Nocturne" (Gershwin, Gershwin, Heyward/Barber) - 4:22
  9. "The Way It Is" - 7:01
  10. "Twelve Tone Tune"/"King of the Hill" (Evans/Hornsby) - 11:44

Disc 2

  1. "Spider Fingers"/"Tempus Fugit" (Powell) - 10:25
  2. "Sneaking Up on Boo Radley" - 5:38
  3. "Fortunate Son" - 4:47
  4. "The Valley Road" (Bruce Hornsby, John Hornsby) - 7:13
  5. "The End Of The Innocence" (Don Henley, Bruce Hornsby) - 8:41
  6. "Sunflower Cat"/"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (Garcia, Hunter, Mangini/Bob Dylan) - 9:23
  7. "Rainbow's Cadillac" - 7:23
  8. "Mandolin Rain"/"Black Muddy River" (Bruce Hornsby, John Hornsby/Garcia, Hunter) - 12:30

Personnel

The Noisemakers

Additional musicians

Production

Notes and References

  1. Metzger . John . Against the Grain: An Interview with Bruce Hornsby . The Music Box . 7 . 11 . November 2000 . 2007-05-04.
  2. Web site: Ruhlmann . William . [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r503904|pure_url=yes}} Here Come the Noise Makers: Overview ]. All Media Guide, LLC . 2007-05-04.
  3. Web site: Barry . John W . Bruce Hornsby Live Set Puts New Spin On Old Tunes . 2000-11-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930221006/http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1224281/20001107/hornsby_bruce.jhtml . dead . September 30, 2007 . 2007-05-04.
  4. Metzger . John . Bruce Hornsby: Here Come the Noisemakers . The Music Box . 7 . 12 . December 2000 . 2007-05-04.

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