Bruce Cockburn [Dart To The Heart]
A disc which has slowly become a fairly regular staple in my player, and one which appeared twice before in my Blog [15th December 2010 & 25th August 2012], i can't exactly remember how i got into Bruce Cockburn, it might be that i bought this disc straight off cheap in a second hand shop, and i'm glad i did, tried some of his other stuff, but nothing else seems to really jive with me, Cockburn [pronounced Co-Burn] is a little hard to pinpoint as to his genre of music, some feel he's a Folk Singer, but i feel he's more Soft Rock.
Bruce Cockburn is Canadian, he's now 69, and this album came out in 1994, the front cover shows an Archer, which i take it is Cockburn himself [photography by Dana Tynan], a bleached yellow shot, nicely composed, lettering in dark blue and red, the front and back cover gives a real feel of the wilderness i guess, and of the heat of the sun.
The tracks i loved the most on this listen were 6 & 8, here's a synopsis of both,
6 Southland Of The Heart - Very acoustic, Cockburn plays acoustic guitar, there's pedal steel and organ too, and a background of brass [sax & trumpet], a really lazy number, you can feel the breezes wafting in and cooling you down on this number, best lyric = 'when the nightmares creeping closer, and your wheels are in the mud'.
8 Someone I Used To Love - Even more acoustic, if all the tracks were like this, then maybe yes i would call him a Folk Singer, it's a love song, and a gorgeous one at that, very endearing, it's in three verses, the first is gently acoustic, in the next two new instruments come in, certainly pedal steel, but there's also a mandolin in the background, and the accordion features highly too, it's the start of the second verse where the whole thing goes up a notch, and then there's an extended instrumental between the second and third verses, now that's Cockburn at his best, best lyric = 'you draw me in towards you, like the moon pulls at the tide'.
Bruce Cockburn is Canadian, he's now 69, and this album came out in 1994, the front cover shows an Archer, which i take it is Cockburn himself [photography by Dana Tynan], a bleached yellow shot, nicely composed, lettering in dark blue and red, the front and back cover gives a real feel of the wilderness i guess, and of the heat of the sun.
The tracks i loved the most on this listen were 6 & 8, here's a synopsis of both,
6 Southland Of The Heart - Very acoustic, Cockburn plays acoustic guitar, there's pedal steel and organ too, and a background of brass [sax & trumpet], a really lazy number, you can feel the breezes wafting in and cooling you down on this number, best lyric = 'when the nightmares creeping closer, and your wheels are in the mud'.
8 Someone I Used To Love - Even more acoustic, if all the tracks were like this, then maybe yes i would call him a Folk Singer, it's a love song, and a gorgeous one at that, very endearing, it's in three verses, the first is gently acoustic, in the next two new instruments come in, certainly pedal steel, but there's also a mandolin in the background, and the accordion features highly too, it's the start of the second verse where the whole thing goes up a notch, and then there's an extended instrumental between the second and third verses, now that's Cockburn at his best, best lyric = 'you draw me in towards you, like the moon pulls at the tide'.
