High Winds White Sky

High Winds White Sky Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 074644873825
EAN: 0074644873825
ASIN: B000002854


Release Date: 1991-11-12

High Winds White Sky


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Tracks:

  1. Happy Good Morning Blues
  2. Let Us Go Laughing
  3. Love Song
  4. One Day I Walk
  5. Golden Serpant Blues
  6. High Winds White Sky
  7. You Point To The Sky
  8. Life's Mistress
  9. Ting-the Cauldron
  10. Shing Mountain

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great!.......2005-08-16

This is my first Bruce Cockburn purchase. I bought the Album second hand on Vinyl, too bad it is not available on CD because this is a masterpiece.
A very tight selection of songs, leaves no filler on this album. It's great from start to beginning. The beautiful, melodic mood is constant througout the entire record, and really captures what great "folk" is supposed to be. A quiet arrangement of carefully crafted songs, musically and lyrically.
I have a new found appreciation for Bruce Cockburn. This was released 11 years before I was born, so I don't know what sort of Canadian songs were being written in 1971, but this is simply, great simple and intricate guitar and piano work at it's best! This is not at all like what the radio hits represent him as. I don't know much about his other records, except for his radio hits. I was very pleasantly surprised by this record! Amazon get this CD back in your catalogue!!!

5 out of 5 stars Melodic Feel.......2004-05-17

This CD has a melodic, almost innocent feel that none of his other offerings have. This is one of his first efforts, and it is so pure. I have never listened to a CD that so completely and richly evokes images in one's mind and sweet memories.
What a rich jazz piano in Golden Serpent Blues! This is an incredible musician.

The 60's style music takes me back to high school days and days of counseling at Ramapo Anchorage.

Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"

5 out of 5 stars A Folk MASTERPEICE!.......2003-10-26

I love Bruce. I disagree with the one reviewer that play this recording down by comparing it to his mid-seventies work. Bruce CLEARLY put a lot of effort in the writing of the pieces on this record- His FINEST folk work!

Bruce has had several distinct musical and political transformations in his career. Honest, and on the complex side of the new folk tradition of the late sixties and early seventies, this is melodically dark, somber and intricate: This is his BEST folk work! I am sorry if you don't agree. Yes, there isn't a lot of "commercial " songs on this recording. These are mostly introspective... but there are some fun ones too! Simply awesome FOLK spin (and I listen to a lot of folk music)!!!! Sorry, but this is a masterpiece!

4 out of 5 stars Excellent Early Cockburn.......2003-09-26

While this isn't quite up to the standards of masterpieces like *In the Falling Dark" or "Dancing in the Dragons Jaws," it's still a worthy effort with some real moments of intelligence, feeling and transcendent beauty. Some of the songs are starting to sound a bit dated: "Happy Good Morning Blues" should follow Jackie Paper and Puff the Magic Dragon to the Land of Honah Lee, and "Let Us Go Laughing" meanders a bit without ever really picking up steam.

But patience pays off here. "Golden Serpent Blues" is one of Cockburn's best, with a haunting melody bolstered by some gorgeous piano work. Following it is yet another standout, the title track. These are both classic Cockburn; although he wasn't yet identifying as a Christian, the deep mystical strain which would appear through much of his later work (and, sadly, disappear from many of his more stridently political songs) is evident. "One Day I Walk" and "Love Song" show Cockburn's poetical side: the latter evokes St. John of the Cross more than Leonard Cohen or the Cure. He hadn't yet hit his full stride as a musician -- the arrangements remain rather conventional country-folk, without the jazzy rhythms and instrumental virtuosity which grace much of his later work. Still, this is a solid album: if you're a fan of early 70s folk-rock singers, you'll love this CD. Cockburn developing his talent is still miles above most anyone else playing today...

5 out of 5 stars

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