Bruce Cockburn

One Track Mind: Bruce Cockburn, "Pacing the Cage" (1996)

Source: Something Else!
April 6, 2011

By Tom Johnson Some people just have a gift for the odd twist of phrase that makes a song mean so much more than just a bunch of words or even just a mood. Bruce Cockburn, the Canadian sorta-Christian singer/songwriter is one such guy, and in “Pacing The Cage," from 1996's beautiful The Charity Of Night, he takes what could be a simple it's-hard-being-a-musician story and turns it into something everyone can identify with. There may be lines like “I ...
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Bruce Cockburn: Water into Wine

Source: JamBase
May 21, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

These fragile bodies of touch and taste This vibrant skin, this hair like lace Spirits open to the thrust of grace Never a breath you can afford to waste

Bruce Cockburn There is a sense of the world split open in the work of Bruce Cockburn, like a ripe fig pulled apart by strong hands, the innards tasted hungrily and ...
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