Feb 4: New music from Bruce Hornsby

I'll post new music of note as we go through the year. 

Today saw the release of a new track from Bruce Hornsby, who will appear on the blog quite a few times as we go through the year, as a lot of his music is steeped in particular places and times...

Bruce Hornsby's newest album, Indigo Park, is a concept album of sorts, an extended multi-dimensional inquiry into the nature of aging and memory, often with a lightness of tone — the ways certain scenes linger placidly while others balloon into imagined catastrophe, the ways we remember and the ways we forget. Throughout, Hornsby contemplates moments from his deep past, sometimes trying to "resolve" them, other times looking for clues about his present-day outlook.

"It's just an old bastard looking back, while hopefully pushing forward to adventurous and new musical & lyrical areas," Hornsby says of his new songs, with a smile of characteristic self-deprecation. 

"To be honest, I've found a way, a path to grow old gracefully, with help from some newborn friends of mine."

Indigo Park marks the latest evolution for a legendary artist who only gets more contemporary, curious and creative with age. 

Ever-expanding his stylistic toolbox, he has long traveled far beyond the confines of pop and into the worlds of rock, bluegrass, jazz, classical, electronic and more, but Indigo Park captures one of music’s most adventurous, collaborative and accomplished artists at the top of his game.