World Cafe Playlist for 09/10/2026
Bruce Hornsby joins host Raina Douris
After releasing four albums between 2019 and 2024, Bruce Hornsby really wanted to take a break, but the music simply wouldn’t stop coming. On the World Cafe, Bruce talks about making his latest album, Indigo Park, the young artists who inspired him to keep making music, and about the things he chose to write about, like his memories and the realities of aging.
Today’s Playlist
Grateful Dead “Truckin'” American Beauty
Vampire Weekend “Diane Young” Modern Vampires of the City
Crowded House “It’s Only Natural” Woodface
Joan Shelley “River Low” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Bruce Hornsby “Indigo Park” Indigo Park
Bruce Hornsby “Ecstatic (feat. Bonnie Raitt)” Indigo Park
Bruce Hornsby “Might As Well Be Me, Florinda” Indigo Park
Bruce Hornsby “Memory Palace” Indigo Park
Kaia Kater “Rising Down” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Tedeschi Trucks Band “Layla” Layla Revisited (Live at LOCKN’)
Old Crow Medicine Show “Wagon Wheel” Old Crow Medicine Show
Hour Two
Shawn Colvin “Tenderness On The Block” Fat City
Maisy Owen “My Youth Is All For You” Dark On A Sunny Day
Alexi Murdoch “Song For You” Time Without Consequence
Maggie Rogers “Alaska” Now That The Light Is Fading
Guster “Overexcited” Look Alive
mary in the junkyard “New Muscles” Role Model Hermit
Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White “Look At What The Light Did Now” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Rusted Root “Send Me On My Way” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Alejandro Escovedo “Arizona” Big Station
Caroline Rose “Yip Yip Yow” Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
Beastie Boys “Sure Shot” Ill Communication
Jade Jackson “Finish Line” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Fontaines D.C. “Marianne” Dopamine Chamber
Depeche Mode “Walking In My Shoes” Songs of Faith and Devotion
Mon Rovîa “Heavy Foot” Bloodline
John Prine “Fish And Whistle” Bruised Orange