Bruce Cockburn - Highwinds White Sky (Dlx)
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Artist: Bruce CockburnEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Happy Good Morning Blues
- Let Us Go Laughing
- Love Song
- One Day I Walk
- Golden Serpent Blues
- High Winds White Sky
- You point To The Sky
- Life's Mistress
- Ting/The Cauldron
- Shining Mountain
- Totem Pole
- It's An Elephant World
Music reviews of Highwinds White Sky (Dlx)
Music Review: His Second Album
Rating: 5 Stars
(35.5 minutes)
Now if you ask me, and many a Canadian music aficionado takes the time to do so on a surprisingly regular basis, this sophomore effort by Bruce Cockburn always makes me think of Ward's Island when I see the cover. I guess that's mainly because that's where the photo was taken and bridge featured on the cover still stands there on that little island just outside downtown Toronto. Me and Mama went there to a party one Friday night while we were visiting kinfolk up in Canada (her side, not mine!) and the party happened to be in a house right around from that there bridge and when I seed it I hollered, "stop the car Mama!" (because she was driving and because I call my wife 'Mama'), "I reckon that there is the bridge from that High Winds White Sky album cover!" ..and sure enough it was and we stopped and had us a photo standing there next to it. I asked a kind Canadian feller who was passing by to take the photo while we stood there and smiled for the picture. That picture now hangs on the wall in the back room, right next to my gimme hat collection.
This was the second album of what turned out to be a sort of Cockburn Trilogy, comprised of his first three albums. They are like a trilogy because they all kind of fit together with the same sort of music and the same folkie spiritualism. At this stage he was clearly interested in spiritual things, but not yet professing Christianity. Now don't get me wrong, the music definitely progresses as time goes by and you can hear him growing musically and as a song writer with each album, but if you compare these here three with his other work, then these three are like peas in a pod. Now before you commence to thinking I am suggesting that this album is pretty much like the other two and therefore not worth spending money on, you're wrong. This one was my favorite Bruce Cockburn album of all time until another one came along and knocked it down in my personal rankings (and I'll tell you about that one in a another review).
One Day I Walk is a tune catchy enough that it has been recorded by many others, most recently by k d lang on her Hymns of the 49th Parallel. That particular song is kind of like a Neil Young song from that era in that after a few years it stops sounding dated and starts sounding timeless... kind of like a hymn. The re-issue contains two tunes not originally on the vinyl; Totem Pole and It's An Elephants World. Now, I never look a gift horse in the mouth, at least not in an obvious fashion, but these two songs are not nearly as comfortably placed on the re-issue CD as the extra tunes placed on some of the other re-issues in the Cockburn catalogue. This is mainly for two reasons; first, the original album was pretty much a complete unit with songs planned to fit nicely together from beginning to end and the new songs feel like they were just tacked on to the end of the album as a special bonus for collectors, second, the two additional songs were recorded on a cassette player with one microphone and they sound like it. I happen to enjoy having the two additional tunes to listen to because when me and Junior have our annual Cockburn A to Z weekend in which we program the CD player to go through every single Cockburn tune in alphabetical order we have two additional ditties to include in the list. However, some folk might be a little disappointed in the two songs because they aren't up to the standard of everything else on the album when one considers aural quality and musical ambiance. I reckon I'll let you decide what you think and make a purchase according to your own wishes. The price of the version with the extra songs as compared to that without ain't much different, so you might could make your decision on strictly aesthetic grounds.
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