Career
He is the brother of musician and composer Bruce Hornsby, and the two have collaborated often. Hornsby co-wrote seven of nine songs on the multi-platinum album, The Way lieutenant Is, including the top-five hit, "Mandolin Rain". Other tracks on the album helped establish what some labeled the "Virginia sound", a mixture of rock, jazz, and bluegrass, with an observational Southern feel.
The Hornsby brothers co-wrote "Jacob"s Ladder", which became a #1 hit for Huey Lewis and the News in 1987, and "The Valley Road", for the group"s 1988 follow-up album Scenes from the Southside.
Hornsby contributed to six film soundtracks and was an actor in A Place to Grow in 1998, playing one of the "Centennial Singers."
He is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, class of 1987.
