The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby album)
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''The Way It Is'' is
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 the Range's debut album, released by
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in 1986. Led by its hit
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, the album went on to achieve multi-platinum status and helped the group to win the
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. Other hits from the album include "
Mandolin Rain "Mandolin Rain" is the third track from ''The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby album), The Way It Is'', the debut album for Bruce Hornsby and the Range. The song was co-written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby, John, and featured Range member ...
" and " Every Little Kiss".
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features on harmonica and vocals on "Down the Road Tonight". Lewis also co-produced the song, along with the tracks "The Long Race" and "The River Runs Low".


Releases

The original release of the album featured an impressionistic photograph on the cover of Bruce Hornsby playing an accordion. It was originally targeted at the
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music market and featured slightly different versions of the songs "Down the Road Tonight" and "The River Runs Low." Once the album's tracks started to receive regular airplay on
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stations in late 1986, the album was remixed and was re-released with a new sepia-toned cover featuring a photo of the band superimposed over a photo of the
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in
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.


Track listing

Tracks 2 and 5 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 ...
; all other songs written by Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby. Track times are for the current release of the album. The opening of "Every Little Kiss" features an extended quotation from the opening of Movement III, The Alcotts, from Charles Ives's Piano Sonata No. 2.


Live: The Way It Is Tour 1986-87 track listing

Produced by DIR Broadcasting for the ''
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''. Recorded live at The Ritz,
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, February 2, 1987 by Effanel Music.


Personnel

Bruce Hornsby and The Range *
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 ...
– vocals, grand piano, synthesizer, hammered dulcimer, accordion *
David Mansfield David Mansfield (born September 13, 1956) is an American musician and composer. Mansfield was raised in Leonia, New Jersey. His father, Newton Mansfield was a first violinist in the New York Philharmonic. David played guitar, pedal steel guita ...
– guitar, mandolin,
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* George Marinelli – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals *
Joe Puerta Joe Puerta (born 2 July 1951, California, US) is the bassist/vocalist and founder of the American rock group Ambrosia. He co-wrote one of the band's early hits, "Holdin' On To Yesterday" (1975). He was a touring member (bass/vocals) of the bands ...
– bass, backing vocals * John Molo – drums, percussion Additional personnel *
Huey Lewis Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many o ...
harmonica, backing vocals on "Down the Road Tonight" *John Gilutin and Sean Hopper – synthesizer consultants


Production

* Executive Producer – Paul Atkinson * Tracks #1-3, 5, 7 & 9 produced by
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and Elliot Scheiner (for Trackman, Inc.); Tracks #4, 6 & 8 produced by
Huey Lewis Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many o ...
. * Recorded and Engineered by Elliot Scheiner (Tracks #1-3, 5, 7 & 9) and Jim Gaines (Tracks #4, 6 & 8). * Additional Engineers – Eddie King and Jeff "Nik" Norman * Assistant Engineers – Jim "Watts" Vereecke and Lenette Viegas. * Mixed by Eddie King, David Luke, Don Smith and Elliot Scheiner. * Mixed at Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, CA); Conway Studios (Hollywood, CA);
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and The Complex (Los Angeles, CA); Rumbo Recorders (Canoga Park, CA). * Mastered by
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at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, CA). * Digital Editing by Bob Harlan * Production Assistant – Ivy Skoff * A&R Coordination – Marge Meoli * Art Direction and Design – Ted Raess * Art Consultant – Kathy Hornsby * Photography –
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* Inner Sleeve Photo – Robert Llewellyn * Management – Tim Neece * Enforcement – Jeff Gerson


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References

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