By Penny Bancroft
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. His music draws from folk rock, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Southern rock, country rock, jam band, rock, heartland rock, and blues rock musical traditions.
Hornsby has won three Grammy Awards: a 1987 Grammy Award for Best New Artist with Bruce Hornsby and the Range, a 1990 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording, and a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
Hornsby has worked with his touring band Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, his bluegrass project with Ricky Skaggs, and as a session and guest musician. He was a touring member of the Grateful Dead from September 1990 through March 1992, playing over 100 shows with the band.
His 23rd album, Flicted, was released in May 2022.
Hornsby and his wife Kathy have twin sons, born 1992: Russell, who ran for the Oregon Ducks track and field team at the University of Oregon, and Keith, who played Division I basketball for the University of North Carolina Asheville Bulldogs from 2011 to 2013, transferred to Louisiana State University and played for LSU from 2014 to 2016. They were named after musicians Leon Russell and Keith Jarrett, respectively.
Hornsby is a regular basketball player and an avid fan of the sport. As such, he can frequently be seen at college basketball games throughout Virginia. Hornsby stated that he beat Allen Iverson in one-on-one basketball three games in a row after helping him get out of jail. He is also a friend of baseball Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa and attends games in St. Louis. Their friendship led to La Russa introducing Hornsby to jazz bassist Christian McBride, which then led to the formation of The Bruce Hornsby Trio (along with drummer Jack DeJohnette) and their first album, Camp Meeting.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Born
- Franklin Pierce (14th U.S. president) –
- Jose Clemente Orozco (painter) –
- Boris Karloff (actor) –
- Harpo Marx (comedian & actor) –
- Bruce Hornsby (musician) –
- Dominique Dunne (actress) –
- Robin Roberts (broadcast journalist) –
- Jonathan Papelbon (baseball player) –
- Miley Cyrus (actress & singer) –
- Jordan Fry (actor) –
Died
- Walter Reed (American pathologist) –
- Roald Dahl (author) –
- Roy Acuff (country music singer) –
- Larry Hagman (actor) –
Events
- Horseshoe manufacturing machine patented–
- The water level in Lake Merced in California dropped 30 feet–
- The Intercollegiate Football Association formed–
- The first jukebox was installed in the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco–
- The first issue of LIFE debuted–
- U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (SPARs) authorized–
- Food rationing ended–
- Newsman Dan Rather announced he would step down in March as the anchor of the CBS Evening News after nearly a quarter-century in the job–
Weather
- Berlin, New Hampshire, received 55 inches of snow–
- -38 degrees Fahrenheit, Chinook, Montana–
- Yarmouth, Massachusetts, received 14 inches of snow–
- Strasburg, Connecticut, received 6.5 inches of snow–
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