Another of those rare beasts round these parts - an album with actual songs, vocals, lyrics and everything. And one of my favourites of all time. Bruce Cockburn in 1979 was just getting started on his social-conscience era, whilst toning down the religious elements compared to previous albums, and was playing better fingerpicked-acoustic guitar than ever. The result was this album - a possible career-best. Folky, jazzy, just a smidgeon of the reggae obsession to come in the form of a bouncy breakthrough hit - this is pretty much perfection. Wanted to see out the year on a reasonably positive, hopeful note - reckon this fits the bill.
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Nice. Love this LP, but misplaced my digital copy so I'm happy to hear this again. Agreed that this is probably Cockburn's best album: pretty much perfection, indeed. Thank you!
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