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Album Details: Halcyon Days

Release Date:08/17/2004
Label:Sony
UPC:827969265222

Track List: Halcyon Days

  1. Gonna Be Some Changes Made  
  2. Candy Mountain Run  
  3. Dreamland  
  4. Circus On The Moon  
  5. Halcyon Days  
  6. What The Hell Happened  
  1. Hooray For Tom  
  2. Heir Gordon  
  3. Mirror On The Wall  
  4. Song F  
  5. Lost In The Snow  

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    Bruce Hornsby: the Case for Evolution

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 17, 2004 | 8 out of 8 found this Halcyon Days review helpful

    Pros: Amazing piano, fabulous guests, witty lyrics

    Cons: Not for the throwaway pop crowd or anyone hanging on to preconceived notions about Bruce Hornsby

    Like a fine wine, Bruce Hornsby gets even better with age, but it's impossible to keep him bottled up in the cellar and remaining "just as one remembers." As a musician, Hornsby is constantly growing, changing, experimenting, and you n...ever get the same results from him twice. And "Halcyon Days" is just proof of his continuing musical evolution. People who still fondly look back on "The Way It Is" and the Dead years, watch out. Bruce Hornsby is not a musician-singer-songwrite
    r to be typecast, pegged into a genre, or easily received by people who just assume they "get" Hornsby's style. This new album defies labelling -- serious, silly, instrumental beauty, vocal fireworks, nostalgic, hopeful, and a mix of influences that reach far beyond what one heard in Bruce's debut with the Range. This is not the same Bruce Hornsby that commandeered radio stations back in '86/'87, and that's not a bad thing at all!Highlights from the album include its first single "Gonna Be Some Changes Made," the toe-tappingly catchy "Candy Mountain Run," the Elton John duet "Dreamland," the near-bittersweet "Hooray for Tom," "Mirror on the Wall" with its brilliant lyrics, and the astoundingly gorgeous instrumental "Song F."No, "Halcyon Days" doesn't always have the easy-listening appeal of the early hits and ballads, but it's richness and complexity and beauty far outweigh the ability to have its songs incessantly stuck in your head for hours upon end. This album is far more substantial and crafted in the true artistic sense than many of the albums you'll find beside it. Bruce Hornsby is rightly regarded as one of the best musician-singer-songwrite
    rs working today, and "Halcyon Days" ends up being another piece of evidence to justify that claim.     Read more Less

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    Halcyon Days

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 16, 2004 | 1 out of 1 found this Halcyon Days review helpful

    Pros: Accomplished and informed music for sentient beings

    Cons: Requires a little bit of previous experience and knowledge of different genres to appreciate , no brainers should avoid

    Album: Bruce Hornsby Halcyon Days, COLUMBIABy Andy Gill13 August 2004( From the U.K.'s ' Independent' newspaper for our American cousins )Anyone who has witnessed Bruce Hornsby's one-man tour of 20th-century piano - a bravura demonstr...ation of jazz and blues styles, from Meade Lux Lewis to Thelonious Monk, Fats Waller to Professor Longhair, Errol Garner to Dr John - knows that he is probably the most gifted keyboard technician of his generation. Certainly, the presence on this, his ninth album, of friends such as Eric Clapton, Sting and Elton John gives some indication of the esteem in which Hornsby is held by fellow musicians. He's also, of course, an accomplished songwriter, and combines the two aspects of his craft impressively on Halcyon Days, with a series of dazzling Randy Newman pastiches such as the whimsical celebration of learning, "Hooray for Tom", and especially the self-deprecating "What the Hell Happened", a humorous showstopper which starts out with a standard ragtime arrangement before flying off into a virtuoso piano solo that buzzes around countless different styles. Elsewhere, an organ lends the title track a soulful gospel air appropriate to a moral sermon ("Some rise by wrong/ And some by virtue fall/ But those convicting may be the guiltiest of all"), while songs such as "Mirror on the Wall" and "Circus on the Moon" focus on the hopes and fears of children in an uncertain world. Read more Less

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  • All Music Guide

    Big Swing Face announced a new and improved Bruce Hornsby, one who wasn't afraid to "Try Anything Once." The lead track of Halcyon Days, "Gonna Be Some Changes Made" subtly echoing "The Way It Is" in its piano work continues this affirmation of progress, although Hornsby's growth is not sustained across the entire album. Still, the first half of Halcyon Days, while much less ambitious than Big Swing Face, starts off promisingly enough. From the poppy "Changes" to the soothing title track, Hornsby delivers an agreeable set of songs. In its own restrained way, it's a bid for commercial airplay, with guest stars Elton John, Sting, and Eric Clapton all doing their part for the cause.

    - Skyler Miller, All Music Guide

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