Bruce Cockburn - You've Never Seen Everything
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Artist: Bruce CockburnBrand: COCKBURN,BRUCE
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-06-10
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Tried and Tested
- Open
- All Our Dark Tomorrows
- Trickle Down
- Everywhere Dance
- Put It In Your Heart
- Postcards From Cambodia
- Wait No More
- Celestial Horses
- You've Never Seen Everything
- Don't Forget About Delight
- Messenger Wind
Music reviews of You've Never Seen Everything
Music Review: Bruce's White Album
Rating: 5 Stars
Bruce Cockburn's latest album not only grabs you immediately with his intense lyrics, but with the amazingly diverse musical styles. It's as if he put his hand in a musical grab bag and pulled out all of the stops. You've never heard everything, until you've heard this album. For those who have grown to expect incendiary and world weary lyrics from Bruce, you will certainly get enough of that here. But, the musical soundscape that the lyrics are laid upon, is amazing. I hear references to almost all of Bruce's musical catalogue and more so in these tunes.When I heard Bruce play the majority of these songs live and solo, I was not impressed. But, the album carries these songs much better in the context of a musical ensemble. Rather than taking the usual lead with his intricate guitar work, he sets each song to rhythms which are colored by the diverse musicians on this album. Lovely violin work by Hugh Marsh and sweet harmonica by Gregoire Maret offset the melodies of Bruce's words. The percussion and drumming by Stephen Hodge and Ben Riley respectively, is some of the best you will hear on any album.
"Tried and Tested" is a great song to lead off the album. Bruce has always leaned towards an organic and acoustic sound for the majority of his work, but the first instrument we hear is a synthesized drum track loop. This only serves to support the hazy drug-like drone of the swirling guitar riffs in classic electric Cockburn style. This track could easily have been from his last project, "Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (1999)". There are many lyrical references to past Cockburn songs ranging from "In the Falling Dark", to "Somebody Touched Me".
"Open" is definitely the obvious choice for a single. I was reminded of the delicate guitar work from "Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws (1979)". It seems a rumination on the mysteries of love and chance.
"All Our Dark Tomorrows" is a direct follow up to "Feast of Fools" from "Further Adventures Of (1978)". There is a deep and slow burning anger at the injustices being done by those in power. The future is clouded with uncertainty, but as Bruce sees it, could be preventable if only we would open our eyes.
"Trickle Down" shows the jazz influence of co-writer and pianist Andy Milne. It has the overall feel of the classic, "Night Vision (1973)" album. An extremely jazzy piece that borders on improvisation, this is one of the few songs that leaves you feeling happier than it should.
"Everywhere Dance". Wow! What can I say? This sounds like it was written for the "Salt, Sun & Time (1974)" album. For those acoustic guitar players out there, this is one to listen to. Amazing guitar work and uplifting, spiritual lyrics. Life is a dance, and we can't help but be drawn into to it, if we have any life in us at all.
"Put it in Your Heart" is the dark B-side to "Last Night of the World". Of course, the subject matter is way too big for anyone to lyrically do justice to. But, in the few words he's crafted, Bruce is able to put a human response that sees much more of the bigger picture than most of us are capable of. "A soul that's turned it's back on love", indeed. We are all still part of the human family in spite of what we do to each other.
"Postcards From Cambodia" is an apt title for this spoken word piece. This is the kind of thing we're come to expect from Bruce, but the music, and in particular, the arrangement, sweeps the listener into more than just storytelling. It becomes a resonant mantra for the whole tragedy of what has happened to the Cambodian people.
"Wait No More" is a great surprise! The rhythm of "Stolen Land", with the sentiment of "Pacing the Cage". This is a wonderful blues tune, that could end up becoming a standard for any musicians with ears to hear the possibilities.
"Celestial Horses" is a song that dates back to 1978. It's easy to see the shift in perspective in the lyrics, but the music seems to fit from the "Dart to the Heart (1994)" period. Almost a lazy country song, it feels like a warm Summer's night.
"You've Never Seen Everything". This is Bruce's "Revolution 9". A soundscape of looped instruments and jarring guitar chords, all set to lyrics of such horror that you find the images staying with you for days afterward. This is not a track that can be listened to a few times and dismissed as an experiment. Because, once you grow accustomed to the bizarre musical soundscape, the power of the lyrics crystallizes the sense of impotent and stunned emotions that Bruce is dealing with. The way he phrases the word, "pitchfork" almost sounds like his voice is breaking in emotion because of the mind numbing horror of it all. Thank God this is followed up by...
"Don't Forget About Delight". I am reminded of the album, "Joy Will Find a Way (1975)". And in fact, they express much the same sentiment. This song is a humane and human response to the injustices Bruce sees in the world around him. It is also a reminder of what we often forget, "Anger drips and pools and then it passes".
"Messenger Wind" is the kind of a song that seems to hearken back to the days of "High Winds White Sky (1971)". So simple in it's structure and beautiful in melody, it is a folk song in the truest sense. We can almost imagine ourselves with Bruce "In front of the house where I'm supposed to be born". And the symbol of the wind is of course, the spirit of God. It is in the spiritual that Bruce finds the answers of all of the questions he has put forth in this album. In spite of the darkness around us, the human quality which rises to the surface is hope. A fitting end to an rollercoaster musical and emotional experience.
*****
Five out of Five Stars...
Description of You've Never Seen Everything
You've Never Seen Everything is Cockburn's first full-length studio album since his 1999 critically acclaimed and JUNO Award winning Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu. With a career that spans over three decades, countless tours and 27 albums, Cockburn has never stopped reflecting on political and social causes. You've Never Seen Everything mirrors Cockburn's deepening frustration with a world out of balance. Songs like the tense opening 'Tried and Tested,' the hypnotic 'All Our Dark Tomorrows' and, especially, the swirling jazz of 'Trickle Down' represent some of Cockburn's most political songs since his 'Call it Democracy' and 'If I Had a Rocket Launcher' classics of the mid-1980s. Cockburn's solution comes through in some of the most powerful songs of hope he's ever written: the joyous 'Open,' the euphoric 'Put It in Your Heart' and the gorgeous closing 'Messenger Wind.' Co-produced with longtime associate Colin Linden, You've Never Seen Everything finds Cockburn collaborating with old friends as well as new acquaintances to create one of his most complete works yet. Guest vocalists include Emmylou Harris, Sarah Harmer, Jackson Browne and Sam Phillips.Possessed of a creative spirit as restless as his vaunted socio-spiritual conscience, Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn took nearly four years to deliver this, his first album of the new millennium. Judging from the rich, challenging musical/topical tapestry that's resulted, it was time well spent. Cockburn's career has been a long (this marks his 27th release) and varied one, wending its way from Christian-oriented folk to the angry agit-prop pop of "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" and beyond, much of it seasoned with musical influences that have ranged from jazz to world-beat. But seldom has Cockburn woven those disparate inspirations into a collection as rewarding as this one. With the eye for detail--and nose for trouble--of a grizzled foreign correspondent, the musician is as unafraid to deliver spoken-word dispatches from the front ("Postcards From Cambodia," the title track's haunting litany of back-page horrors) as he is to wrap the greed-head harangue " Trickle Down" in ironic, percolating jazz or let his voice soar with a rare, naked expressiveness on the beautiful "Everywhere Dance." Sam Phillips and Emmylou Harris add sparkling harmonies to "Tried and Tested" and the hypnotic, cautionary "All Our Dark Tomorrows, respectively, while Cockburn gracefully closes the compelling collection out with gentle reminders ("Don't Forget About Delight," "Messenger Wind") about the importance of human connections both great and small. --Jerry McCulley
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