| Cockburn, Bruce / Rumours Of Glory |
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| Album: | Rumours Of Glory | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Cockburn, Bruce | Added: | Feb 2015 | |
| Label: | True North Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-02-06 | Pull Date: | 2015-04-10 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 12 | Mar 15 | Mar 8 | Mar 1 | Feb 22 | Feb 15 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 09, 2015: | The Sunset Life Grinning Moon | 4. | Mar 04, 2015: | Brownian Motion Ribbon Of Darkness | |
| 2. | Mar 08, 2015: | Emergency Crew Week 7 Part 2 Wise Users | 5. | Feb 23, 2015: | Clean Copper Radio My Beat | |
| 3. | Mar 07, 2015: | Emergency Crew Week 7 Part 1 My Beat | 6. | Feb 19, 2015: | The Sunset Life Beautiful Creatures |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2015-02-04 | ||
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Cockburn (pronounced “Co-burn”) has a career that spans five decades as a folkie activist to a guitarist extraordinaire delving into fusion. His lyrics always speak out on a range of issues: native rights, land mines, human rights, war atrocities, and the atrocities of love. This is two promotional discs of a 9 disc box set that accompanies the release of his written memoirs. Disc 7 has his trademark electric sound, folkie but tinged with a prog, almost King Crimson sound. Disc 8 sounds older, more folkie/acoustic,more of the Leo Kotke/Takoma school that I believe he was part of in the 60’s. Can’t describe the beauty of some of these songs in words so I suggest you just play them. Really glad we got this. Start with disc 8 track 10, “all the beautiful creatures are going away” or disc 7 track 4 “you’ve never seen everything”(yikes, so dark). Disc 7: Mostly electric stuff. 1) (6:17) midpaced sway, pretty, lush instrumentation, vague lyrics 2)* (6:18) trickle down: upbeat border jazz prog about big business, greed, corporations 3)* (6:57) spoken styled vocs over a nice mindful rock, heavy topics, war in SE Asia, excellent with pretty sung chorus 4)* (9:16) intense spoken word over slow dreamlike music, "you've never seen everything", creepy disturbing 5) (4:37) almost upbeat with female backups in the chorus, commentary on city life, pleasant 6) (5:03) nice looping guitar, music, very Adrian Belew in chorus, good catchy music 7) (5:17) FCC shit, slower with piano, anti war, gulf/Iraq, subtle though 8) (6:23) pretty with 12 string guitar, about Baghdad atrocities the USA has brought 9) (5:52) simple nursery rhyme structure, nice 10)* (5:11) drop dead beautiful, heart wrenching about animals going extinct, Slow acoustic, dark, PLAY 11) (6:52) full band pop feel Disc 8: More folky simple ss folk songs, less electric band. Bruce Springsteen Nebraska 1) (1:21) acoustic brief national anthem like 2) (5:41) slight African David Byrne music feel, love song? 3) (4:21) alone w 12 string guitar, folky singer writer slight blues 12 bar love song 4)* (7:25) sing song with guitar and violin, social commentary "use it wisely", beautiful song for sure 5) (3:32) guit vocs only, simple nice folk 6) (3:52) twangy full band, acoustic driven, "the whole night sky", really nice, very Bruce 7)* (5:47) solo acoustic guitar, a little dissonant, almost Nick Drake dark 8)* (4:11) killer tape treated pretty echoey guitar with drone, simple melody vocs overlaid 9) (6:07) acoustic guitar urgent, is there an electric version on other disc?, just good songwriting 10) (1:24) cool instrumental guitar excursion 11) (3:25) pretty sad toned song, guitar and weepy cello, loneliness? 12)* (3:30) baritone guitar, sad song about heartbreak, breakup, ouch 13) (3:55) swampy Louisiana bluesy w trombone, whimsical feeling | ||
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