Stereo Embers The Podcast 0521: Bruce Cockburn

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“The Blood Of Others”

If you’re job is to tell your audience a little bit about a titan like Bruce Cockburn, then you’re job is not an easy one. But let’s give it a shot. The Ottawa-born Bruce Cockburn is one of the most celebrated, revered, and beloved musicians on the planet. Let’s just start there and work our way around. With just under 40 albums to his name, including High Winds, White Sky, Dancing In The Dragon’s Jaws, Stealing Fire, Nothing But A Burning Light and his fabulous new one The Blood Of Others, Bruce Cockburn’s five decade career is an endless stream of highlights. Let me give you a partial list: He’s got 13 Juno Awards, 22 Gold albums, and six honorary doctorates. He’s both a member and an Officer of the Order of Canada, an inductee to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as well as the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. Let’s keep going: He’s received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, Earth Day Canada’s Outstanding Commitment to the Environment Award and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Medal and he was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame. I’ll stop there, but I think by now you’re getting the idea. Bruce Cockburn is a rather decorated fellow. For his new album The Blood Of Others however, he turns his gaze to other decorated folks. Taking its name from the Simone de Beauvoir novel, the album is a striking compendium of covers of tracks that informed Cockburn’s musical identity. Ranging from folk to pop to blue to gospel, the fifteen tracks on The Blood of Others range from numbers by Elvis Presley to Ian Tyson to Robert Wilkins to Johnny Mercer. It’s a stirring collection that’s not only invigorated by Cockburn’s interpretive genius, it’s also a respectful musical tipping of the hat that’s deeply satisfying.

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