Black&White&BlueMoon Town
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I remember those tracks, and it's been awhile since I listened to that album, but I did like it at the time too. Maybe I will give it another spin this week.I love Scenes from the Southside - he was ahead of the curve with "Look Out Any Window" - an eco-themed song way before most people were even thinking about such things; the piano outro on the superb "The Road Not Taken" was a sign of the direction that he was going in; and it was good to hear a different version of his own song, "Jacob's Ladder" that Huey Lewis had had a number 1 with the year before.
I can assure you it is. Richmond was the capitol of the Confederacy, and famous generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and others were from there. There's battlefields all over that state from the Civil War.Geographically, I've always been surprised that Virginia is considered the South - it seems a bit to far north in the grand scheme of things.
I will agree that Northern Virginia (NoVA) is different from other parts of the state further south, but that is probably a discussion for another forum.
As I'm sure you know, Hornsby is from the Colonial Williamsburg area, which tends to focus tourists on a period of about 100 years prior to then. ;-)
Totally understand, and there's enough overlaps from my end as well. Cheers!I think the music my Mum and Dad listened to might have influenced my musical direction - as I've noted before, all that "new" music in the 80s didn't seem much like music to me, so I buried my head in sport, books and films. When I was ready to listen to music, it was the kind of stuff that flowed from rock and roll, country, blues and folk - you know, proper music! Bruce Hornsby ticks most of these boxes and so do a lot of (y)our fellow countrymen.