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With over 25 albums to his credit, Bruce Cockburn is a veteran of the
music business; primarily a Folk-Rock based singer+guitarist & songwriter,
his music has also encompassed many other styles, including Jazz, Blues
and Reggae. Cockburn was born May 27, 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario CANADA,
he spent much of his formative childhood playing music and upon leaving
high school, he travelled around Europe, busking on the streets of Paris,
where he spent a night in jail for performing without a license. He eventually
decided to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Majoring in
music composition Cockburn returned to Ottawa after 2 years where he soon
hooked up with local poet and musician Bill Hawkins and his band The Children.
1969 was a pivotal year in his life as he decided to forge a solo career;
at the end of the year, Cockburn and his girlfriend Kitty were married
and he recorded his first LP, an eponymous effort which was followed by
1971's "High Winds White Sky". Developing a strong following
in his native Canada and receiving favorable critical reviews, he spent
the next few years with his wife and their dog in a camper, criss-crossing
the country performing.
Each successive album expanded on the previous, adding more textures and
sounds, "Sunwheel Dance" contained his first recorded political
song.
Cockburn unleashed his fourth album, "Night Vision", in 1973
and a year later he converted to Christianity releasing "Salt, Sun
And Time".
His daughter was born in 1975 and before the year was out, however, he
completed his sixth studio album "Joy Will Find A Way"; the
next year the adventurous LP "In The Falling Dark" increased
his popularity greatly.
"Circles In The Stream", Cockburn's first live album, a good
retrospective of the artist's first seven years, was recorded in 1977
at Toronto's Massey Hall.
He returned in mid-1978 with a new studio effort, "Further Adventures
Of", setting the stage for a wider audience with his ninth album
of original material "Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws"; this was
the first album which cracked the U.S. Top 200 LPs & Tapes chart reaching
the #45 slot while the single "Wondering Where The Lions Are"
peaked at #21 on the Pop chart.
Yet, all was not going perfectly in Cockburn's life and he and Kitty were
divorced just as his music was becoming more known.
This breakup fueled many of the songs on his landmark 1980 album "Humans",
a harder, more Rock-oriented edge was beginning to show in his work, the
record reached #81 on the U.S. Pop Albums chart.
A year later was released a 11-track compilation which contained four
new songs including a worldwide radio hit: the mellow ballad "The
Coldest Night Of The Year".
"Inner City Front", his next album, found him living in the
harder urban surroundings of downtown Toronto and adopting a much more
electric guitar-and-drums approach; it was a conscious effort to move
out of his past style, resulting in the loss of some fans.
In 1983 Cockburn released "The Trouble With Normal"; this was
another moderate success which failed to chart Stateside.
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Bruce Cockburn
(1970)
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1. Going To The Country
2. Thoughts On A Rainy Afternoon
3. Together Alone
4. The Bicycle Trip
5. The Thirteenth Mountain
6. Musical Friends
7. Change Your Mind
8. Man Of A Thousand Faces
9. Spring Song
10. Keep It Open
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High Winds White Sky
(1971)
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1. Happy Good Morning Blues
2. Let Us Go Laughing
3. Love Song
4. One Day I Walk
5. Golden Serpent Blues
6. High Winds White Sky
7. You Point To The Sky
8. Life's Mistress
9. Ting / The Cauldron
10. Shining Mountain
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Sunwheel Dance
(1971)
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1. My Lady And My Lord
2. Feet Fall On The Road
3. Fall
4. Sunwheel Dance
5. Up On The Hillside
6. Life Will Open
7. It's Going Down Slow
8. When The Sun Falls
9. He Came From The Mountain
10. Dialogue With The Devil
11. For The Birds
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Night Vision
(1973)
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1. Foxglove
2. You Don't Have To Play The Horses
3. The Blues Got The World...
4. Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long
5. Islands In A Black Sky
6. Clocks Don't Bring Tomorrow - Knives Don't Bring Good News
7. When The Sun Goes Nova
8. Deja Vu
9. Lightstorm
10. God Bless The Children
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Salt, Sun And Time
(1974)
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1. All The Diamonds In The World
2. Salt, Sun And Time
3. Don't Have To Tell You Why
4. Stained Glass
5. Rouler Sa Bosse
6. Never So Free
7. Seeds On The Wind
8. It Won't Be Long
9. Christmas Song
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Joy Will Find A Way
(1975)
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1. Hand-Dancing
2. January In The Halifax Airport Lounge
3. Starwheel
4. Lament For The Last Days
5. Joy Will Find A Way (A Song About Dying)
6. Burn
7. Skylarking
8. A Long-Time Love Song
9. A Life Story
10. Arrows Of Light
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In The Falling Dark
(1976)
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1. Lord Of The Starfields
2. Vagabondage
3. In The Falling Dark
4. Little Seahorse
5. Water Into Wine
6. Silver Wheels
7. Giftbearer
8. Gavin's Woodpile
9. I'm Gonna Fly Some Day
10. Festival Of Friends
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Further Adventures Of
(1978)
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1. Rainfall
2. A Montreal Song
3. Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
4. Prenons La Mer
5. Red Ship Take Off In The Distance
6. Laughter
7. Bright Sky
8. Feast Of Fools
9. Can I Go With You
10. Nanzen Ji
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Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws
(1979)
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1. Creation Dream
2. Hills Of Morning
3. Badlands Flashback
4. Northern Lights
5. After The Rain
6. Wondering Where The Lions Are
7. Incandescent Blue
8. No Footprints
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Humans
(1980)
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1. Grim Travellers
2. Rumours Of Glory
3. More Not More
4. You Get Bigger As You Go
5. What About The Bond
6. How I Spent My Fall Vacation
7. Guerrilla Betrayed
8. Tokyo
9. Fascist Architecture
10. The Rose Above The Sky
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Mummy Dust
(1981)
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1. Silver Wheels
2. Loner [NEW TRACK]
3. Joy Will Find A Way
4. Thoughts On A Rainy Afternoon
5. It's Going Down Slow
6. The Coldest Night Of The Year [NEW TRACK]
7. Laughter
8. Red Brother Red Sister [NEW TRACK]
9. You Don't Have To Play The Horses
10. Dweller By A Dark Stream [NEW TRACK]
11. All The Diamonds In The World
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Inner City Front
(1981)
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1. You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance
2. The Strong One
3. All's Quiet On The Inner City Front
4. Radio Shoes
5. Wanna Go Walking
6. And We Dance
7. Justice
8. Broken Wheel
9. Loner
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The Trouble With Normal
(1983)
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1. The Trouble With Normal
2. Candy Man's Gone
3. Hoop Dancer
4. Waiting For The Moon
5. Tropic Moon
6. Going Up Against Chaos
7. Put Our Hearts Together
8. Civilization And Its Discontents
9. Planet Of The Clowns
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Stealing Fire
(1984)
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1. Lovers In A Dangerous Time
2. Maybe The Poet
3. Sahara Gold
4. Making Contact
5. Peggy's Kitchen Wall
6. To Raise The Morning Star
7. Nicaragua
8. If I Had A Rocket Launcher
9. Dust And Diesel
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World Of Wonders
(1985)
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1. Call It Democracy
2. Lily Of The Midnight Sky
3. World Of Wonders
4. Berlin Tonight
5. People See Through You
6. See How I Miss You
7. Santiago Dawn
8. Dancing In Paradise
9. Down Here Tonight
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Big Circumstance
(1988)
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1. If A Tree Falls
2. Shipwrecked At The Stable Door
3. Gospel Of Bondage
4. Don't Feel Your Touch
5. Tibetan Side Of Town
6. Understanding Nothing
7. Where The Death Squad Lives
8. Radium Rain
9. Pangs Of Love
10. The Gift
11. Anything Can Happen
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Nothing But A Burning Light
(1991)
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1. A Dream Like Mine
2. Kit Carson
3. Mighty Trucks Of Midnight
4. Soul Of A Man
5. Great Big Love
6. One Of The Best Ones
7. Somebody Touched Me
8. Cry Of A Tiny Babe
9. Actions Speak Louder
10. Indian Wars
11. When It's Gone, It's Gone
12. Child Of The Wind
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Christmas
(1993)
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1. Adeste Fidelis
2. Early On One Christmas Morn
3. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
4. Riu Riu Chiu
5. I Saw Three Ships
6. Down In Yon Forest
7. Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes
8. Go Tell It On The Mountain
9. Shepherds
10. Silent Night
11. Iesus Ahatonnia (The Huron Carol)
12. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
13. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
14. Mary Had A Baby
15. Joy To The World
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Dart To The Heart
(1994)
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1. Listen For The Laugh
2. All The Ways I Want You
3. Bone In My Ear
4. Burden Of The Angel / Beast
5. Scanning These Crowds
6. Southland Of The Heart
7. Train In The Rain
8. Someone I Used To Love
9. Love Loves You Too
10. Sunrise On The Mississippi
11. Closer To The Light
12. Tie Me At The Crossroads
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The Charity Of Night
(1996)
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1. Night Train
2. Get Up Jonah
3. Pacing The Cage
4. Mistress Of Storms
5. The Whole Night Sky
6. Birmingham Shadows
7. The Mines Of Mozambique
8. Live On My Mind
9. The Charity Of Night
10. Strange Waters
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Breakfast In New Orleans Dinner In Timbuktu
(1999)
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1. When You Give It Away
2. Mango
3. Last Night Of The World
4. Isn't That What Friends Are For?
5. Down To The Delta
6. The Embers Of Eden
7. Blueberry Hill
8. Let The Bad Air Out
9. Look How Far
10. Deep Lake
11. Use Me While You Can
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You've Never Seen Everything
(2003)
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1. Tried And Tested
2. Open
3. All Our Dark Tomorrows
4. Trickle Down
5. Everywhere Dance
6. Put It In Your Heart
7. Postcards From Cambodia
8. Wait No More
9. Celestial Horses
10. You've Never Seen Everything
11. Don't Forget About Delight
12. Messenger Wind
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Life Short Call Now
(2006)
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1. Life Short Call Now
2. See You Tomorrow
3. Mystery
4. Beautiful Creatures
5. Peace March
6. Slow Down Fast
7. Tell The Universe
8. This Is Baghdad
9. Jerusalem Poker
10. Different When It Comes To You
11. To Fit In My Heart
12. Nude Descending A Staircase
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