Showing posts with label Bruce Cockburn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bruce Cockburn. Show all posts

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Incandescent blue (Bruce Cockburn) (LP 67)

Bruce Cockburn Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws (Vinyl - RCA, 1979) ***

Genre: Folk

Places I remember: Marbecks Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Wondering Where The Lions Are




Gear costume: After The Rain

Active compensatory factors: The hook (to buy the whole album) was the awesomeness of Wondering Where The Lions Are. My children know this song really well. Not only did I play it a lot but I would often wake them up in the morning with the opening lines:

Sun's up, uuh huh, looks okay
The world survives into another day
And I'm thinking about eternity
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.


After The Rain is a beautiful tone poem reflection that floats along a few feet above the ground. Gorgeous music!

The rest of the album cannot rise to those lofty heights but is nothing less than good honest Canadian folk/rock music.

Where do they all belong? With other obscure Canadian folkies like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.