★★★★★
Bruce Cockburn is a world-renowned guitar master who has released his first ever instrumental recording. Produced by Colin Linden and Bruce Cockburn, "Speechless" includes some previously recorded material along with new recordings. "Sunwheel Dance," for example, was the title track from an album released on True North Records in 1971...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2013-08-07
★★★★★
In 1999, Canada's preeminent singer-songwriter went to Mali to narrate a film on desertification, "River of Sand." Along the way, he got to match his filigree, finger-picking guitar style with a variety of Malian musicians including kora maestro Toumani Diabaté and the grand man of Malian blues, Ali Farka Touré...
- www.afropop.org
2010-12-19
★★★★★
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- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Stealing Fire (True North) <$ST>
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Bruce Cockburn's ambition as voice for the disenfranchised is perhaps overstated on this album. You've Never Seen Everything, Trickle Down and All Our Dark Tomorrows may give pause for reflection. BC's concern for inhuman folly and maladies within our collective guilt complex - hey, that's his audience - is no secret...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Known for his honeyed voice, nimble fretwork, and smart wordplay, Canadian Bruce Cockburn employs all this ? plus glockenspiel, flugelhorn, andAni DiFranco ? on his 29th album. From the romantically hopeful "Mystery"to the anxious "Beautiful Creatures" (swollen with exquisite melancholyand a 23-piece string orchestra) to the Bush-bashing "This Is Baghdad," Life Short Call Now is split between pro-love and antiwar songs...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn is the voice of concern: Even hismelodies seem to have furrowed brows. There are times on Nothing buta Burning Light when the smoky-toned Cockburn, who has been churningout socially and politically conscious material for more than 20years, sounds suffocatingly sincere...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Between John Hiatt's rollicking wisdom, Lou Reed's sullen truths, and Gordon Lightfoot's sentiment (not sentimentality) lies the work of Bruce Cockburn, whose 22nd album, Dart to the Heart, veers from boisterous to a little too sleepy, and includes some beautifully pithy lyrics. Anyone who writes a line like "If youlove love then love loves you too" has to be a poet or a fool.Cockburn is no fool.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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