It's Memorial Day 2025.
Back in 1988, my future wife agreed to take a trip with me to San Diego to visit the parents.
We were living in Los Angeles at the time.
That Memorial Day weekend trip started it all, for us.
The rest is history.
I had to really grind to learn something new here. The the second solo and outro to this song were not part of the original sheet music, so I had to watch YT videos to learn it.
It's not perfect, but it's the real deal.
Bruce Hornsby was emphatic about the fact that he wanted to convey "a sense of place" in this song. He grew up in the Williamsburg, VA area.
Who would have thought that a jazz infused, piano-based, rock song about civil rights in the Reagan era would become such a classic?
Anyway, I worked pretty hard to get this one.
And here's the good news . . . I didn't sing for this one.
© 2025 by Roy Santonil
