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BRUCE HORNSBY TAPS A MORE SERIOUS `SPIRIT' ON RCA DOUBLE (Continued from page 11) asks. "It's always a serious picture thought I should record them, too, sounds like what I've heard so far, he Food Network, and CNN /SI. on KFOG San Francisco and then of the artist, the standard brooding and did, and after both records were may become one." An Oct. 19 performance on "Late syndicated nationally. singer/songwriter. And I thought finished, I didn't think I could put O'Sullivan says that RCA will fur- Show With David Letterman" will Other TV performances include about it and said, `Fuck it! Let's them together-but that they went ther support "Spirit Trail" with print kick off a number of TV appear- "Austin City Limits" and a solo con- make this the cover,' because people together in a musical context. So it ads and Internet promotions on the ances. There will also be a Delta Air- cert on Canadian outlet MuchMusic's who go to my shows know I'm a fair- became a double album." alb and Liquid Audio music delivery lines promotion in November and "Intimate & Interactive" series. ly frivolous guy, but otherwise peo- Hornsby thinks of the first disc as systems and that additional online December featuring an hourlong The genre -inclusive Hornsby has ple don't know that this is very much "notes to myself, reminders about promotions with Borders Books & music program and onscreen adver- also performed at the Telluride part of my personality." being a better person," he says, cit- Music will include a chat on Borders tising tied in with Tower Records. (Colo.) Bluegrass Festival, as well as Musically, "Spirit Trail" also de- ing the track "Resting Place," which Online on street date. In addition, thousands of post- at a private party in Austin, Texas, parts from Hornsby's more recent deals with teasing an overweight Point -of- purchase materials will cards were given out during the for the Coalition of Independent Mu- fare. "This is a very `Southern' rec- person. The disc also "creates a very clearly inform consumers that the al- recent Furthur Festival shows. sic Stores (CIMS) ord to me," says the Warner/Chappell Southern feeling," with sketches like bum, priced at $19.98 for CD and The Q Prime -managed, QBQ- "He played solo piano for about 50 (ASCAP) writer, a Virginia native the snake -handling congregations $13.98 for cassette, is a double set. "I booked Hornsby, who also recently retailers and was just brilliant," says who recorded most of it at his home depicted in the two -part "Preacher think some double have come stinted with surviving Dead mem- Don Van Cleave, president of CIMS studio outside Williamsburg (co -pro- In The Ring." out in recent years where fans weren't bers as (having and owner of the Birmingham, Ala., ducing with Michael Mangiai). "Its The second disc, he says, "isn't completely aware what they were and served as part -time keyboardist for store Magic Platter. "A lot of us do influence runs from gospel to blues quite as pointedly Southern" lyrical- thought they were getting an expen- the Dead from 1990 to '92), is now in well with Grateful Dead product and to R &B to folk music, so I think of it ly, while still dealing with issues of sive [single] album instead of twice as the middle of his own shows, to get a lot of Deadheads asking about as very Southern in that way and less bigotry, as in "Line In The Dust." much music," says O'Sullivan. include a two -week run at Yoshi's in Hornsby and looking forward to his jazz -influenced than the last two "But I've always written about my Besides print, RCA will advertise Oakland, Calif., Oct. 26-Nov. 8. The new album. We generally do very albums [1993's "Harbor Lights" and area," Hornsby notes. "You could call on A &E, the Weather Channel, the Nov 4 concert will be broadcast live well with his records." 1995's "Hot House "]. all my records `Our Town, 1-2-3-4-5- "I also recommitted myself three 6.' I've always gotten inspiration from years ago to studying the piano, and what I know from this area." that's reflected in the record," he Though "Spirit Trail" is a double continues. "It's not your standard album, Hornsby says it's not "un- Island To launch first Of 112 Retrospectives pop piano -playing but a different wieldy," clocking in at only 92 min- level of the use of the two hands utes. RCA VP of marketing Cliff This story was prepared by Julie The Best Of 1980-1990," will be "Desire," and "Sweet Thing." independently." O'Sullivan calls it a "career- defining Taraska, news editor for Billboard available thereafter. In the U.K., the set will be pre- Hornsby didn't intend the set to be record full of very radio -friendly Online. The project marks the first in a ceded Oct. 19 with a new version of a double-CD project and had nearly songs." The first of those, the first series of titles chronicling U2's his- "Sweetest Thing" that will be made finished a single -disc set last sum- disc's "Great Divide," went to triple - NEW YORK -The first -ever tory, as part of a new deal with Is- available as a commercial single. In mer when he joined the Grateful A, mainstream rock, modern adult, greatest -hits set from U2 will be land that has been reported to be the U.S., the track will be a radio - Dead -derived Furthur Festival. and adult top 40 stations Sept. 8. The initially packaged with a limited - worth $50 million. No dates have only single that will be serviced to "I had a lot of time on my hands track, which features Canadian vio- edition bonus disc, containing 15 of yet been set for further releases. stations Sept. 29. sitting around waiting for the obliga- linist Ashley MacIsaac, will then go U2's B -sides from the '80s, accord- The regular album includes Despite reports that U2 received tory jam at the end of the night, so I to top 40 in October. ing to Island Records, which is "Pride (In The Name Of Love)," more than $50 million in advances started writing songs on the bus on "It's a really good, contemporary - releasing the title worldwide Nov 2 "New Year's Day," "With Or With- for the three -album, best -of deal, a little Casio," says Hornsby. "At the sounding record with a kind of Dave (Nov 3 in the U.S.). Retailers will out You," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," Rob Partridge of Coalition, the end of the tour I had seven or eight Matthews feel, and I'm going to play have one week to order the double - "I Still Haven't Found What I'm band's U.K. publicist, would not songs I was interested in recording it," says Louis Kaplan, PD of modern CD version before it is deleted from Looking For," "Bad," "Where The confirm the amount, claiming that which were shorter than the ones on AC station KLLC San Francisco. the group's catalog. The regular, Streets Have No Name," "I Will all monetary figures are "com- the first disc -tighter in structure "Bruce isn't what I'd call a core artist 14 -track edition of the album, "U2: Follow," "The Unforgettable Fire," pletely speculative." with not a lot of soloing or piano. I here, but if the rest of the album

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