"Barren Ground" is a song written by

Bruce Hornsby 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 ...

and

John Hornsby Jonathan Bigelow "John" Hornsby (born June 13, 1956, Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American composer, musician and actor. He is the brother of musician and composer Bruce Hornsby, and the two have collaborated often. Hornsby co-wrote seven of n ...

for the 1990 album, '' A Night on the Town'', by

Bruce Hornsby and the Range 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. ...

Daryl Braithwaite version

"Barren Ground" was covered by Australian singer-songwriter

Daryl Braithwaite Daryl Braithwaite (born 11 January 1949) is an Australian singer. He was the lead vocalist of Sherbet (1970–1984 and many subsequent reunions). Braithwaite also has a solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including t ...

and released as the second single from his fourth studio album, ''

Taste the Salt ''Taste the Salt'' is an album by Daryl Braithwaite released in November 1993. The album reached No. 13 on the Australian ARIA Charts. Braithwaite undertook the Taste the Salt Tour, nationally from 1 March to 18 April 1994. Track listing #"In ...

'' in January 1994. Simon Hussey won the ARIA awards for Engineer of the Year for his work on this track and " The World as It Is" at the

ARIA Music Awards of 1994 The Eighth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 30 March 1994 at the State Theatre in Sydney. Radio and TV personality Richard Stubbs hosted the cer ...

Track listing

CD single # "Barren Ground" – 4:42 # "The Other Side" – 4:10 # "

The Horses "The Horses" is a song written by Rickie Lee Jones and Walter Becker. It was originally performed by Jones on her 1989 album, ''Flying Cowboys''. While not released as a single, the original version did appear in the 1996 film ''Jerry Maguire'' a ...

" (acoustic) – 4:17

Charts

References

{{authority control 1990 songs 1994 singles Songs written by Bruce Hornsby Columbia Records singles Song recordings produced by Simon Hussey