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Bruce Cockburn Announces ‘True North - A 50th Anniversary Box Set’
Tue May 05, 2020
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To be active and relevant in music for 50 years is a significant achievement for any individual recording artist. The same can be said for any independent record label. To achieve this milestone together as an artist and label team without interruption, has to be one of the most extraordinarily rare events in music.

To celebrate this milestone, Bruce Cockburn and True North Records have produced True North - A 50th Anniversary Box Set, a Limited Edition vinyl box set containing three of Bruce’s most significant recordings. The first album where it all started, the self-titled debut Bruce Cockburn along with two albums that have never before been released on vinyl; The Charity of Night and Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu. Each album has been re-mastered by Bruce’s long-time producer Colin Linden, and is pressed on coloured vinyl. The five-180 gram discs are contained in original artwork sleeves adapted from the original designs by the acclaimed graphic designer Michael Wrycraft, and housed in an individually numbered box signed personally by the artist. There will be only a limited initial pressing.

Limited Edition Vinyl Set Arrives September 25th, 2020

Preorder to reserve a signed and individually numbered set here.

Bruce Cockburn was the first artist signed to True North Records, the tenacious independent label founded by Bruce’s manager Bernie Finkelstein and first operated from a Yorkville Avenue phone booth. Bruce’s debut self titled album was the label’s first album release on April 7, 1970, produced by Eugene Martynec, with the catalog number TN1. Fifty years on, Bruce Cockburn still records for True North Records, which released his 34th album “Crowing Ignites” in late 2019.

Bruce says, “In 1969, when I was feeling the need to record an album of the songs I’d been writing, I had no concept of what that might lead to. In some organic way it felt like it was time. The future wasn’t really an issue. It still isn’t. For each of us, there’s a future or there isn’t.

“But looking back over the arc of 50 years of recording, performing, and travel, not to mention relationships and personal challenges,” he continued, “I can only shake my head and mutter a word of thanks for all of it.”

Cockburn concluded: “Even if I’d been a planner by nature, I doubt I could have predicted how things have gone… and they’re still going!”

Cockburn has also scheduled fall tour dates celebrating the 50th Anniversary   Additional updates and ticket information can be found through the official Bruce Cockburn website and the complete list of tour dates is below.

Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn

Although Mr. Finkelstein sold True North Records to entrepreneurs Geoff Kulawick, Harvey Glatt and Michael Pilon in 2007, True North continues to be a vital independent label signing and releasing records by Bruce alongside many of Canada’s leading singer-songwriters and musicians including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Murray McLauchlan, Matt Andersen, Colin James, Sass Jordan, Sue Foley, Natalie MacMaster and Jimmy Rankin.

Bruce Cockburn: True North - A 50th Anniversary Box Set

TND750 - Bruce Cockburn (LP) | A Charity of Night (2LP) | Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (2LP) - 5 x 180 Gram Colored Vinyl Discs original artwork sleeves.

Bruce Cockburn 2020 anniversary tour dates
September 4, 2020 CNE Bandshell, Toronto, ON
October 16, 2020 Showplace Theatre, Peterborough, ON
October 17, 2020 National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON
October 18, 2020 Empire Theatre, Belleville, ON
October 20, 2020 Isabel Bader Theatre, Kingston, ON
October 29, 2020 Academy of Music Theater, Northampton, MA
October 30, 2020 Wilbur Theater, Boston, MA
October 31, 2020 Pythian Opera House, Boothbay Harbor, ME
November 1, 2020 Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT
November 4, 2020 StageOne at FTC, Fairfield, CT
November 6, 2020 Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA
November 7, 2020 Newton Theater, Newton, NJ
November 8, 2020 City Winery, New York, NY
November 9, 2020 Birchmere, Alexandria, VA
November 11, 2020 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD
November 13, 2020 Harvester Performance Center, Rock Mount, VA
November 14, 2020 McGlohon Theater, Charlotte, NC
November 15, 2020 Songbirds Guitar Museum, Chattanooga, TN
November 17, 2020 City Winery, Atlanta, GA
November 18, 2020 Ponte Verde at Palm Beach Lakes COA, West Palm Beach, FL
November 19, 2020 Capitol Theater, Clearwater, FL

For more visit: http://brucecockburn.com/

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