Bruce Hornsby
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Bruce Randall Hornsby 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.
Hornsby in 2019
Hornsby playing accordion in Central Park in New York City
Hornsby in Portland, Oregon, 2006
Hornsby performing a solo piano show June 21, 2005, in North Bethesda, Maryland, audience requests visible across keyboard
Heartland rock
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Heartland rock is a genre of rock music characterized by a straightforward, often roots musical style, often with a focus on blue-collar workers, and a conviction that rock music has a social or communal purpose beyond just entertainment.
Bruce Springsteen, the most commercially successful act in the genre of heartland rock, performing in East Berlin in 1988
John Mellencamp, shown in 2007, among the most successful of the "second generation" of acts in the genre
Melissa Etheridge, the first significant female figure in the genre, performing live in 2010