Saturday, December 7, 2019

The 1986 Listening Post - Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Way it Is

Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Way it Is



#130/1295
April 1 1986
Bruce Hornsby & the Range
The Way It Is
Genre: Your Dad’s Rock
3.75 out of 5



Highlights”
On the Western Skyline
The Way it Is



How is this the first album by these guys? Yo, Jason, if you and the Scorchers sounded more Ivan-Reitman-Movie-Score-Quality like this you might have had more success. This is not an admonition of J&tS, just an observation that the world WAS ready for this sound. 
I wasn’t. I still wanted my roots rock to have sharp edges and snark ala Beat Farmers so I eschewed this stuff hard. But, I can totally understand the feels for it as I am 30 years older. That doesn’t mean it does anything for me. I just get it. 


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