Artist
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn is a rock artist from Ottawa,Canada formed in 1967. 48 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Ottawa,Canada · Best rock albums
- 48
- Releases
- 1970–2023
- Active years
- 1967
- Formed
Discography
36
Most popular
Nothing But a Burning Light
1991
In the Falling Dark
1976
The Charity of Night
2007
Dart to the Heart
1994
Speechless
2005
Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws
1979
Christmas
1993
Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu
1999
Big Circumstance
1989
World of Wonders
1986
Humans
1980
High Winds White Sky
1971
Crowing Ignites
2019
Bruce Cockburn
1970
Salt, Sun and Time
1974
O Sun O Moon
2023
The Trouble With Normal
1983
Bone On Bone
2017
Inner City Front
1981
Night Vision
1973
Stealing Fire
1984
Small Source of Comfort
2011
Sunwheel Dance
2005
Joy Will Find a Way
1975
Life Short Call Now
2006
Further Adventures Of
1978
You've Never Seen Everything
2003
Rarities
2022
Greatest Hits (1970-2020)
2021
Live (Deluxe Edition)
2013
Mummy Dust
2013
Anything Anytime Anywhere
2013
Waiting For A Miracle
2013
Slice O' Life - Solo Live
2009
Circles In The Stream (Deluxe Edition)
2005
You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance - Live
1997
Singles & EPs
12
Colin Went Down To The Water
Single · 2023
Us All
Single · 2023
On A Roll
Single · 2023
Haiku
Single · 2023
Going Down The Road
Single · 2022
Waterwalker Theme
Single · 2022
Avalon, My Hometown
Single · 2022
The Whole Night Sky
Single · 2022
Jan Douwe Kroeske presents: 2 Meter Sessions #712 - Bruce Cockburn
EP · 2020
Blind Willie
Single · 2019
Sweetness And Light
Single · 2019
States I'm In
Single · 2017
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About
"Bruce Douglas Cockburn" born May 27, 1945 is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011, and his musical career spans over 40 years. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll. Just as his musical style has varied through the years, his song lyrics have dealt with a broad range of topics. A review of Cockburn's lyrics reveals a passion for human rights, political issues and Christianity over his long musical career. Cockburn was born in 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and spent some of his early years on a farm outside Pembroke, Ontario. He has stated in interviews that his first guitar was one he found around 1959 in his grandmother's attic, which he adorned with golden stars and used to play along to radio hits. Cockburn was a student (but did not study music) at Nepean High School, where his 1964 yearbook photo states his desire "to become a musician". He attended Berklee School of Music in Boston for three semesters in the mid-1960s. In 1966 he joined an Ottawa band called The Children, which lasted for about a year.
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In the spring of 1967 he joined the final lineup of The Esquires. He moved to Toronto that summer to form The Flying Circus with former Bobby Kris & The Imperials members Marty Fisher and Gordon MacBain and ex-Tripp member Neil Lillie. The group recorded some material in late 1967 (which remains unreleased) before changing its name to Olivus in the spring of 1968, by which time Lillie (who changed his name to Neil Merryweather) had been replaced by Dennis Pendrith from Livingstone's Journey. Olivus opened for The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream in April 1968. That summer Cockburn broke up the band with the intention of going solo, but he ended up in the band 3's a Crowd with David Wiffen, Colleen Peterson, and Richard Patterson, who had played with him in The Children. Cockburn left this band in the spring of 1969 to pursue a solo career.
Bruce Cockburn in brief
- How many Bruce Cockburn releases are on Riffiter?
- 48 releases are catalogued, spanning 1970 to 2023.
- When was Bruce Cockburn formed?
- Bruce Cockburn formed in 1967, in Ottawa,Canada.
- What genre is Bruce Cockburn?
- Bruce Cockburn is catalogued under Rock.
- What is the most recent Bruce Cockburn release on Riffiter?
- O Sun O Moon, released in 2023.