![]() ![]() “I was in the band for their Fare Thee Well 50th anniversary concerts.”įor the past decade, he’s been writing film and TV scores, including the music for Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It and his 2018 movie BlacKkKlansman. “That’s really kept going through to 2015,” he states proudly. Moving far from his early image as a middle-of-the-road performer, Hornsby became a member of The Grateful Dead in 1990, replacing late keyboardist Brent Mydland. He co-wrote and co-produced the Don Henley hit The End Of Innocence and played piano on Bonnie Raitt’s iconic I Can’t Make You Love Me. As early as the late 80s, he was lending his piano and accordion playing to albums by Clannad, Shawn Colvin and country star Tom Wopat. It’s far from the first time that Hornsby has collaborated with another artist in a long and constantly questing musical career of which his Top 40 hits in the 1980s were just the beginning. Hornsby then invited Vernon to sing on his 2016 album Rehab Reunion, a folk-oriented outing on which Hornsby swapped his trademark piano for a dulcimer. I went up there and spent two days hanging out.” “I was doing a solo piano tour that ran through the state of Iowa and my last gig of the run was in Mason City, which is about three hours away from where Justin lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. “It was an instant ‘yes’ from me,” Hornsby continues. He liked the version of the Grateful Dead song Black Muddy River and wanted to do it as a duet with me. Justin had always been a fan of my album Here Come The Noise Makers from 2000. Then, in 2015, Justin reached out to me through our managers and asked if I’d do a duet with him on a massive 5-CD indie rock Grateful Dead tribute record, Day Of The Dead, curated by The National. ![]() I thought it was gorgeous, interesting and unique-sounding. I started investigating and the first Bon Iver song I heard was Holocene. ![]() He was shouting my name out as someone who’d influenced him as a young musician. ![]() “In 2011 or 2012 I started getting these alerts about Bon Iver and Justin Vernon. Hornsby first became aware of Vernon via Google Alerts. ![]()
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