Article: Bruce Cockburn: on spirituality, activism & music.(includes discography)

I was still in high school, back in 1970, when I first saw Bruce Cockburn play at the Back Door Coffee House in Montreal. With his sheep dog Aroo at his feet on the small stage, Bruce sang songs like "Going To The Country," about getting out of the city and into the fresh air, and "Musical Friends," a celebration of hanging out, playing music, and passing around the bottle or the pipe. Those early songs were naively poetic and brightly melodic, and they're still fun to hear, but they did not foretell that Bruce would steadily evolve into one of contemporary folk's most interesting, challenging, and often most controversial, singer-songwriters. Or that he'd become an ...

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