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The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby album)

The Way It Is is Bruce Hornsby and the Range's debut album, released by RCA Records in 1986. Led by its hit title track, the album went on to achieve multi-platinum status and helped the group to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Other hits from the album include "Mandolin Rain" and "Every Little Kiss". Huey Lewis 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".

The Way It Is

April 1, 1986

1985–1986

43:12

Releases[edit]

The original release of the album featured an impressionistic photograph on the cover of Bruce Hornsby playing an accordion.[3] It was originally targeted at the New Age 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 Pop music 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 Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia.

– vocals, grand piano, synthesizer, hammered dulcimer, accordion

Bruce Hornsby

– guitar, mandolin, violin

David Mansfield

George Marinelli – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals

– bass, backing vocals

Joe Puerta

– drums, percussion

John Molo

Bruce Hornsby and The Range


Additional personnel


Production