Last weekend I spent some time painting one of the hallways – it was in desperate need of a fresh coat of paint – and I decided to plug in my iPod while I worked. Rather than listen to a random selection of Genius picks, I chose two albums to listen to in their entirety: Bonnie Raitt’s Nick Of Time, and Bruce Hornsby’s Scenes From The Southside. I had not listened to these in a long, long time, and playing them again made me remember what really good albums they are. Nick Of Time won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1990; Scenes From The Southside is Hornsby’s second release with The Range, and I’d always liked this album better than BHATR’s first album The Way It Is, and one song in particular, The Show Goes On is one of my favorites.
It was featured in the trailer for an early Leonardo DiCaprio movie, This Boy’s Life, based upon autobiographical tales by Tobias Wolff. I saw the movie in the theatre back when it was released in the early 1990’s, and although I loved the film I was disappointed that the song does not actually appear in the movie.
Here is the trailer: