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Bruce Hornsby making noise with new album

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Bruce Hornsby has spent 15 years tickling the ivories with his band The Range. Now he's hoping his new album will tickle the fancy of his old fans and maybe make some new ones.

"Here Comes the Noise Makers" was released in October 2000, Hornsby's seventh album and the first live disc. "It's two records capturing the full concert experience," he says. "It really captures what we really sound like, what we really do, what we try to get every night of our gig."

Hornsby and his band signed with RCA in 1985. The next year, their debut album, "The Way It Is," scored three Top 20 hits. The album sold 2 million copies and the group won the best new artist Grammy in 1986.

Soon after, Hornsby started to make his mark as a songwriter. He wrote the Huey Lewis hit "Jacob's Ladder" and "The End of the Innocence" for Don Henley. In the early '90s, Hornsby played with the Grateful Dead its keyboard player, Brent Mydland, died in July 1990.

The new album is a compilation of his favorite covers and old hits, songs that have been "re-worked and re-invented," Hornsby says. "It's really a gift to our true fans, people who have been with us all through the years."

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