You’ve Never Seen Everything

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Author: Cockburn, Bruce

Format: Import

Release Date: 10-06-2003

Details: Amazon.caPossessed 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

UPC: 011661322226

EAN: 0011661322226

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood