The Charity of Night

Bruce Cockburn - The Charity of Night

The Charity of Night
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Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-02-04
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
  1. Night Train
  2. Get Up Jonah
  3. Pacing The Cage
  4. Mistress Of Storms
  5. The Whole Night Sky
  6. The Coming Rains
  7. Birmingham Shadows
  8. The Mines Of Mozambique
  9. Live On My Mind
  10. The Charity Of Night
  11. Strange Waters

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Music Review: Easily the best Cockburn album
Rating: 5 Stars

23 albums down the road, and Cockburn pulls out "The Charity of Night". Most singer-songwriters go downhill as they get older, Cockburn - like the water into wine story - is unarguably turning out to have saved the best for last.

"Charity" offers an even mix of love, political, human condition, and instrumental songs, four songwriting genres that Cockburn excels in. From the first track to the last on "Charity", there are no duds, and the album as a whole is conceptual, opening up the idea of Night as sanctuary, challenging us to consider the space between dusk and dawn in a different light, rather than merely dismissing it as 'just darkness.'

The album is rock/folk (in that order), but the profound jazz influences, the moody talking story songs, the excellent instrumentalists and backing singers (Ani DiFranco, Jonatha Brooke, Patty Larkin, Bob Weir, etc.) make this a musically deeper album than others in the same genre.

"Charity" gradually builds via a series of steady ebbs and flows to the last song, a masterpiece called "Strange Waters", which rumbles like musical thunder into eternity.

Fans of classic Cockburn will be delighted.

People who have never heard of Cockburn, who stumble onto this album looking for the two-bladed sword of quality music delivering lyrics that actually say something about something, will be relieved to have finally made his acquaintance.

This is one of the best albums I own. Sure, I'm a Cockburn fan, but I like a lot of other good musicians too, and this is as good as he gets.

According to a poll of hardcore Bruce Cockburn fans in Spring 1999, this album was no.1 of the 24 that had been released by that point.

On the ongoing poll since then, of visitors to The Cockburn Project website, this album has consistently stayed at number one of the 25 released by that point.

Never heard Cockburn before? This is the album to start with. Then head for Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner In Timbuktu, the 'sequel' to "Charity."

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Description of The Charity of Night

Includes an impressive supporting cast consisting of Gary Burton, Gary Craig, and Rob Wasserman, plus special guests Jonatha Brooke, Ani DiFranco, Patty Larkin, Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt and Bob Weir.
Why doesn't Toronto's Bruce Cockburn have the same high-level critical reputation and midlevel cult following as Richard Thompson? After all, they're both dazzling, Celtic-Islamic rock guitar pickers and the writers of vivid if gloomy songs which they deliver in foggy baritones. The big difference is Cockburn's left-wing Christianity, which can be as unrelentingly earnest as Bono's. Cockburn lightens up a little bit on The Charity of Night; he adds Laurie Anderson-like, film noir monologs to four songs and allows nakedly romantic feelings to emerge in two quietly pretty love songs. The prominent presence of bassist Rob Wasserman and vibist Gary Burton give a jazzy elasticity to Cockburn's usual folk rock. Cockburn's reputation among his fellow musicians is reflected in guest appearances by Bonnie Raitt, Bob Weir, Patty Larkin, Ani DiFranco, and Jonatha Brooke--maybe the public will catch up this time around. --Geoffrey Himes

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