Sunwheel Dance

Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 074644874044
EAN: 0074644874044
ASIN: B00000EIJB

Release Date: 1993-02-16

Sunwheel Dance

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Traditional Folk

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Tracks:

My Lady and My Lord
Feet Fall on the Road
Fall
Sunwheel Dance
Up on the Hillside
Life Will Open
It's Going Down Slow
When the Sun Falls
He Came from the Mountain
Dialogue With the Devil (Or "Why Don't We Celebrate")
For the Birds

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Customer Reviews:

His Third Album.......2004-12-16

(34.4 minutes)

This album was kind of hard for me to locate when it first come out because we only had two record shops in Chesterfield County back in 1971 and neither of them carried anything by Bruce Cockburn. I had discovered Cockburn the year before on the Country Voice of the Tri-Counties, "Super AM Radio 1320, The Hayseed," and was in love with his music... but down here in Chesterfield County there weren't much room for Canadian folkies among the records that most folks were interested in obtaining, so I had a hard time obtaining it. As I recollect, I managed to get a copy when me and Mama were up in Canada to see relations (hers, not mine!) and couldn't wait to take the bus back down to Chesterfield County to put the record on the hi fi and listen to it. That's because her relations didn't own a hi fi at the time and don't hold to record listening no how.

Radio Luxemburg or Radio Caroline or one of them pirate radio stations picked this up and broadcast it across the UK that summer, but you couldn't hear anything in Chesterfield County unless you came over to the Huckabee place and listened as we played it on our hi fi set. In fact, quite a few folk did and that is why, to this day, there is a small but dedicated group of Bruce fans right here in the tri-county area. I ain't attempting to crow, I just state the facts as I see them.

I suppose the best cut on the disc is Feet Fall on the Road, and I judge it to be the best because as far as I can see, that tune is the one from this album what has been recorded most by other singers. This album is a whole lot more accessible than the first two, mainly because Bruce had by that point drifted more towards main stream music and wasn't quite as esoteric. Esoterica is what makes Bruce shine, though, and once you get a good handle on his modern stuff, going back and discovering this old stuff ain't at all a chore.

In my opinion, and my opinion is always just as humble as I can make it (even when it is the correct opinion and everybody else has the wrong opinion) , if you are ready to delve in to the early work of Bruce Cockburn, then go ahead on and splurge and get yourself all three of his first albums (Bruce Cockburn, High Winds White Sky, Sunwheel Dance) and listen to them as a unit. I provide my erudite and knowledgeable (yet always humble) opinion about other possible trilogies of his work in other reviews. Buying all three of the first CDs makes a great gift and I done gave my good friend Clyde "Blackie" Boyle the trilogy back at Christmas a year or two ago. He didn't care for it too much, buy his oldest boy, Lance, sure enough did like it and now me and Lance head up the local chapter of the Bruce Cockburn fan club (dues $28.50 per year, meetings quarterly at the Sons of Herman Lodge or any time a new release comes out).

A rich artistic performance, full of nuance........2003-10-15

It's the year 2003 and I'm replacing old cassettes with CDs. This is the first one that came to mind because it's exquisite and has stuck with me since 1st finding it about 10 years ago during a difficult period. The notes and melodies are crafted with a contrast that reminds me of looking at wind-blown wet trees gone wild in shape. It transports and pleases other senses too like touching a beautiful coat on a kitten or lion. Bruce's words are delicate nuances of style; gradations of feeling from infatuation to deep affection to celebration; subtle shades of meaning everyone can relate to.

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