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Bruce Hornsby And The Noisemakers- LEVITATE- CD- 15.09.2009-
- The Verve Music Group/UMG Recordings, Inc.- 602527102443- 400 grn
LEVITATE is the tenth studio album by Bruce Hornsby. It was Hornsby's third studio album with his touring band, Bruce Hornsby And The Noisemakers, and was his first release with Verve Records. Somewhat a musical departure for Hornsby And The Noisemakers, LEVITATE features no piano solos. Many of the songs also feature lyrical motifs of science and nature. Several songs were co-written with Chip DeMatteo for a stage musical titled SCKBSTD. The title track was used in Spike Lee's documentary Kobe Doin' Work. Invisible was featured in the Bobcat Goldthwait movie World's Greatest Dad, in which Hornsby also made a cameo appearance as himself. Much like the 2004 release Halcyon Days, LEVITATE features guest artists and those close to Hornsby, most notably Eric Clapton, Hornsby's twin sons Russell and Keith, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, and Hornsby's nephew R.S. Hornsby, who was killed in a car accident less than a week after recording a memorable guitar solo on "Continents Drift." The album has been dedicated to his memory.
PERSONNEL: Bruce Hornsby – lead vocals, acoustic piano, keyboards, dulcimer; John "J. T." Thomas – keyboards, organ, guitar; Doug Derryberry – guitar; Blake Mills – guitar; R. S. Hornsby – guitar solo; Eric Clapton – guitar solo; J. V. Collier – bass; Sonny Emory – drums, samples; Bobby Read – saxophones, clarinet; Andy Leftwich – fiddle; Floyd Hill, Jr., Eric Jackson, Tim Smith – backing vocals; 12-year-old Keith and Russell Hornsby – vocals and rap.
If there were any doubt that Bruce Hornsby had completely redefined himself as a "do whatever I want to" musician rather than the pop/rock singer/songwriter he had appeared to be upon his popular emergence 20 years earlier, that doubt should have been dispersed by his two album releases of 2007, the bluegrass duo set Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby and the jazz trio session Camp Meeting with Christian McBride and Jack DeJohnette. That liberation accomplished at last, Hornsby unsurprisingly returns to the pop/rock singer/songwriter mode on LEVITATE, his first album since 1993's A Night On The Town to be co-credited to his backup band. But his old group the Range is long gone, replaced by an ensemble pointedly called The Noisemakers, who have been backing him as a unit since 2002 and the sound of LEVITATE only occasionally recalls the Bruce Hornsby of "That's the Way It Is," "Mandolin Rain," and "The Valley Road." Instead, he and The Noisemakers come up with combustible jazz-rock arrangements revealing the influence of Steely Dan and Brian Wilson, used to support sometimes bizarrely humorous lyrics, as signaled by the opening song, "The Black Rats Of London." In truth, Hornsby isn't much of a lyricist, if only because he doesn't seem to know what to write about, and his songwriting has never recovered from the loss of his brother John Hornsby as a co-writer. The best songs here are co-compositions, particularly "Cyclone," with a strong, evocative, and characteristic lyric from former Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, as well as "Continents Drift" and "Simple Prayer," both co-written by Chip deMatteo. The album's unevenness also may be due to the multiple purposes that inspired the material, however. The music in some cases seems to have been written for different projects and retrofitted here: the title song appeared in a different version in director Spike Lee's film Kobe Doin' Work. Nevertheless, old-time Hornsby fans who fell away over the years might want to give this one a listen; it's closer to his singer/songwriter self than he's been in many years.
Housed In A Gatefold Digipak With Transparent Tray Includes 16-Page Booklet.
Made In The USA.
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