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Revered Singer-Songwriter & Activist Bruce Cockburn Reaches for the Heavens with New Album O Sun O Moon

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Bruce Cockburn in Studio Nashville Photo Credit Daniel Keebler

Bruce Cockburn in Studio Nashville
Photo Credit Daniel Keebler

Fri Mar 10, 2023
Cashbox Canada

“Time takes its toll,” sings the 77-year-old Bruce Cockburn on the opening song, “On A Roll,” his 35th album, O Sun O Moon, out on May 12 via True North Records. “But in my soul / I’m on a roll.”

Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while earning high praise as a prolific, inspired songwriter and accomplished guitarist. He remains deeply respected for his activism and humanist song lyrics that thread throughout his career. On all his albums Cockburn has deftly captured the joy, pain, fear, and faith of human experience in song.

Pre-order album here: truenorthrecords.com/brucecockburn/

O Sun O Moon is his first vocal album since 2017’s Bone on Bone. It’s also only the third album Cockburn has released since writing his memoirs (2013’s widely acclaimed Rumours of Glory), after which he felt creatively spent. He doesn’t feel that way now. A lot has happened in the zeitgeist in the last six years, and the renowned singer-songwriter has plenty to talk about. While he addresses political calamity on “Orders,” and climate change on “To Keep the World We Know” (featuring popular Indigenous Canadian artist Susan Aglukark singing in Inuktitut), Cockburn largely focuses on spiritual connections, forgiveness, and love — in ways that perhaps only a performer of his experience can do. Except that Cockburn has always done that, from his 1970 debut onwards.

What will go wrong will go wrong
What will go right will go right
Push come to shove
It’s all about love

  • From Push Comes To Shove, Words & Music by Bruce Cockburn

O Sun O Moon finds Cockburn again working with his close friend Colin Linden as producer, who doubles on guitar, along with Janice Powers on keyboards and Gary Craig on drums, the album features bassist Viktor Krauss, drummer Chris Brown, accordionist Jeff Taylor, violinist Jenny Scheinman and multi-instrumentalist Jim Hoke. Cockburn’s guest vocalists include Shawn Colvin, Buddy Miller as well as mellifluous singers Allison Russell, Sarah Jarosz and Ann and Regina McCrary, daughters of gospel great Rev. Samuel McCrary, one of the founders of the Fairfield Four.

Bruce Cockburn has won 13 JUNO Awards, an induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada, among many other accolades. He has 22 gold and platinum records including a six-times platinum record for his Christmas album. Cockburn continues to tour internationally.

He’s on a roll.

Tracklisting

  1. On a Roll 3:31
  2. Orders 4:44
  3. Push Come to Shove 4:12
  4. Colin Went Down to the Water 4:41
  5. Into the Now 4:15
  6. Us All 4:40
  7. To Keep the World We Know 3:30
  8. King of the Bolero 5:24
  9. When the Spirit Walks in the Room 4:15
  10. Haiku 4:01
  11. O Sun by Day O Moon by Night 3:50
  12. When You Arrive 4:33
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