Transmissions :: Bruce Hornsby
About this episode
Bruce Hornsby discusses his latest album Indigo Park and his musical journey.
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions with Jason P. Woodbury. Near the end of his latest LP Indigo Park, our guest this week, Bruce Hornsby, sings something of a conclusion. Or perhaps, a belated introduction: "I've been seeking magical thinking/I think I detect a trend/This could be the start of something/Or this could be an end." The lyric isn't cited to suggest the 71-year-old songwriter is going anywhere. If anything, Indigo Park speaks to the hot streak Hornsby's been on since 2019's Absolute Zero. With that album, he began mining his vast bank of musical cues created for various projects with his longtime collaborator Spike Lee, crafting them into full songs. To his surprise, these late period albums caught the attention of fans of adventurous music, his reputation bolstered by artists like Bon Iver, Vampire Weekend, Haim, and others citing Hornsby as an elder statesman. Recorded with co-producers Tony Berg and Will Maclellan at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and The Large Cloth-Eared Collider in Williamsburg, Virginia, Indigo Park demonstrates just how unexpectedly Hornsby operates. From the chiming folk rock of the title track to the Bonnie…
People in this episode
Host: Jason P. Woodbury
Guest: Bruce Hornsby
Topics covered
- music
- songwriting
- album discussion
- artist influence
- creative process
Keywords
- Bruce Hornsby
- Indigo Park
- music
- songwriting
- album
- interview
- creative process
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Aquarium Drunkard
Books & works: Indigo Park, Absolute Zero
Places: Los Angeles, Williamsburg
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