Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers & Justin Vernon

Following the dissolution of his first backing band, the Range, singer/songwriter Bruce Hornsby worked in a variety of formats and collaborations throughout the 1990s. While much of that decade was devoted to solo projects, he'd begun to assemble a new crew of touring musicians with more of an exploratory feel than his earlier band. His work as a part-time keyboardist for the Grateful Dead was likely a contributing factor to this more free-form direction, and in the late '90s he christened his new group the Noisemakers. The first release under this name was 2000's sprawling do...