Bruce Hornsby Previews Album With Bonnie Raitt
Bruce Hornsby just dropped a new track featuring Bonnie Raitt as a preview of his upcoming album "Indigo Park," set for April 3 release. The album includes collaborations with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig and Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, promising a diverse blend of classic rock, blues, and indie influences. A new music video for the Raitt collaboration is also out now.
The upcoming album "Indigo Park" marks a continued prolific streak for Bruce Hornsby, who began recording it in 2024 as he was turning 70. This follows the release of four other albums in the preceding five years: "Absolute Zero" (2019), "Non-Secure Connection" (2020), "'Flicted" (2022), and "Deep Sea Vents" (2024). The collaboration with Bonnie Raitt on the track "Ecstatic" is a reunion decades in the making; Hornsby played piano on her iconic 1991 ballad, "I Can't Make You Love Me." The new song was inspired by chants Hornsby heard at his son's AAU basketball games, and its music video fittingly features the LSU Tigers women's basketball team. This isn't the first time Hornsby has teamed up with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig. The two previously worked together on the song "Sidelines" from Hornsby's 2022 album, "'Flicted." That album was the third in a trilogy of records based on musical cues Hornsby originally composed for filmmaker Spike Lee. The album features a posthumous appearance from the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, who passed away in January 2026, continuing a long musical partnership. Hornsby toured as a keyboardist for the Grateful Dead from 1990 to 1992 and frequently collaborated with Weir over the years. Two songs on "Indigo Park," "Alabama" and "Might As Well Be Me, Florinda," were co-written with the late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Hornsby's work with Hunter was done remotely, and the two never met in person. The album's title track delves into personal history, with Hornsby reflecting on a 10th-grade party at the Indigo Park Pool in his hometown of Williamsburg, Virginia. The 10-song collection is described as oscillating between light and dark, memory and fantasy.
