Bruce Cockburn at Paste Studio NYC live from The Manhattan Center

[@tylerlynch2849]

A man full of soul, a true Canadian treasure

[@sm6jesse]

Fabulous Songwriter. Fabulous Guitar Player. Fabulous Musician. Thanks for sharing your gift Bruce! Love the album Dancing in the Dragons Jaw, was my introduction to you.

[@loontil]

Dragons Jaws is all time. Bits of reggae, jazz, best lyrics ...not tragedy-sniffing, gosh-I'm-political as in later years

[@sm6jesse]

@@loontil That's a great summary of how i feel as well. Well-put

[@raynoller6225]

Best opening line of any song EVER is. “Sunset is an angel weeping”

[@doug4360]

Ray Noller my vote is “The Mississippi delta is shining like a National guitar”

[@moonlitme]

'Hey Charlie I'm pregnant, living on Ninth Street, up above a dirty bookstore, off Euclid Avenue..." (Tom Waits) is pretty good too.

[@sjparadiso]

Ray Noller one of his very best songs. Hope to hear Pacing the Cage next week in Grand Rapids MI.

[@raynoller6225]

Steve Paradiso enjoy the gig, I just love people like him, who make playing and singing feel so easy.

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@trnngthngs]

I absolutely love hearing him breathe through the playing of Bardo Rush. He is putting his whole self into it.

[@paulboden7850]

I've noticed whoever spends time at Berklee in Boston, transcends to a higher level, which Bruce clearly has...an extraordinary musician and songwriter.

[@TheMeetingGuy]

Bruce! You play the soundtrack of our lives... THANK YOU.

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@robertdavidson9393]

@@brucecockburn3672 ?

[@RitchieSinclair]

[@jodymiller99]

40 Years in the Wilderness is a life-changing song. Love you Bruce.

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@hughsyme5391]

I remember siting 5 feet away from Bruce in The Riverboat in Toronto during the late 60's ... early 70's. This piano player continues to be inspired by Bruce's lovely playing and songwriting. "Feet Fall On The Road", "High Winds, White Skies" and so many (many) more! Thanks for the years of beauty and brilliance.

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@sassulusmagnus]

A wonderful artist. Thanks, Bruce, for the gift that you are to all of us.

[@Liammcconway]

Quality. From a fan in Ireland

[@flickwtchr]

Bruce has enhanced so much the soundtrack of my own life. Wondering Where the Lions Are was the first song I heard and then sought out everything I could find. Every concert I've been to (many of them) Bruce has always impressed me as such a gracious and generous soul. Thank you Bruce. Ahhh......After the Rain and it goes on and on and on and on the beauty of his work.

[@stuartbowenjr8393]

Best living musician combining the talents of guitar-playing, singing, and songwriting. And a super-smart, super-fine human being! Take up your load, run south to the road!

[@bertbregdenz2756]

You are talking about Joshua Lee Turner 👍

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@icelandicat68]

Bruce , you are the greatest most intricate singer songwriter and brilliant guitar player in Canadian history and indeed of the most amazing and influential our world has ever had the joy to embrace. Godspeed to you sir.

[@jamesc4812]

Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏🙏

[@dennisjohndreher7258]

Shame, the whole world should know about this guy. Great singer, songwriter and guitar player. Bruce paid his dues, and should be world famous. What a treasure and so humble.

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@coffeegirl6854]

Bruce Cockburn is beyond fab.

[@michaelknolle]

Been a fan since 1984. Hasn't missed a beat in all that time.

[@loranelizabeth9148]

Bruce is my #1 favorite musician! Just went to his show last week in Nelsonville, Ohio- and his group's bus looks great for the unending schedule he's on! Check it out- he might be coming to YOUR town!

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@jon-nolanacousticsingerson9920]

Mr. Cockburn has influenced me. I have always, loved his work.

[@edwardcarter3023]

Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 🤝

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@mortygoldmacher]

Bruce got his songwriting mojo back. He had a decade or more of writer's block. This is like his great late 70s albums. Superb again.

[@brendonpizzati20]

Go Bruce go!

[@Karch.Dah-Veed]

Thank you Bruce!! You have made my life so much richer. I adore you and appreciate you so very much.

[@edwardcarter3023]

Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 🤝

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@Gagnsworld]

Very much looking forward to the new solo album...and seeing you live once again in November!

[@HiggaionSelah_EWFMG]

Absolutely Love listening to Bruce Cockburn !! .. such a modest sincere introspective intelligent creative musical Legend & humanitarian ❣❣ 😍💓

[@patriciocerpa3639]

Un gran artista y un gran ser humano.

[@robdavidson1876]

Finally met Bruce October 2019..memorable time we had brief talk and pic taken together...such a likeable fella!Hes was 74 years of age!Released Crowing Ignites!

[@stupidas9466]

Rob Davidson i've seen him perform 6 times since 1974, and every single time i had an opportunity to talk to, or should i say, with him. A true gentleman.

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@paulbedington2923]

Been a fan since the Concert for the Boat People at the U of T in 1979!!!!!

[@stupidas9466]

I was there to! Such a gentleman as well.

[@mlwsf]

That last piece was just stellar

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@aislingbooks]

Such a beautiful podcast and compilation. Thanks a million, Bruce Cockburn! 💓

[@edwardcarter3023]

Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 🤝

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@aislingbooks]

Your band is awesome too - loving those country/bluegrass licks.

[@ittybitty6474]

Bruce has the chops. He is amazing. Love you Bruce .

[@Gator400]

Brucy !! cool dude .. Cheers - my favourite is tokyo !! And thank you for airing this wonderful interview ..

[@robdavidson1876]

Looooooooove Bruce for decades! Hopefully will see him Ontario Performing Arts Center this October weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[@flippinuid9892]

Bruce you are an excellent musician and lyricist. Among, in the midst of the very very best of each level and you cover both so very well.

[@johnm3152]

Bobby played on one of Bruce's later albums. Song was about an old lion pacing back & forth in his cage. A familiar theme

[@JefferyHunt]

Messenger Wind is my favorite song of his.

[@tbslade]

Had to look that one up. Been listening since '73 and don't recall that one. Great song, thanks!

[@chrisbreier6255]

He's such an amazing talented artist! but it really gets good at 26:57!!

[@tylerlynch2849]

It really does get good!

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@cecilesoumagnas374]

one of my favourite musician when I was twenty and it s always the same thing now....it was my friend of road when I ve travelled inCanada....Imean this music...I don t know him

[@jamesc4812]

Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏🙏

[@brucecockburn5025]

Hi thanks for watching and commenting on my KZbin channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛🎷🎷🎷✨💯💯.................

[@analogueandy8x10]

Canadian legend!

[@anthonykelly5]

BRILLIANT

[@Gagnsworld]

First album I ever owned of yours...guess I'm middle aged as well. Loved the song, loved the Alex Coleville cover!

[@moonlitme]

The Alex Coleville painting is on the cover of 'Night Vision'. This song is from 'The Charity of Night'

[@Gagnsworld]

I wrote this under the influence of absinthe, my mistake. Lol. Thanks for the correction, it's been ages since I heard either.

[@moonlitme]

@@Gagnsworld Haha,. Still worth a listen....

[@ghairmichaud5765]

Legend!!!

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@bcoxlcsw]

you've been in my blood stream for 30 years, cosmic, cosmological mirroring magic

[@edgreen8140]

The 4th canadian musician that i know of. Alanis, neil , joni and Bruce. Did i leave any out?

[@hball6695]

lots.

[@roddyg3692]

By the time I was introduced to Cockburn's songs back in the 1970's, I was already into 1950's to 1970's Surf, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Classical, and Country. I was influenced by Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark, Jose Feliciano, Nat King Cole, The Beatles, Ventures, Presley, etc. I like some of Cockburn's songs, but have been more impressed by Keaggy, Bannister, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Kerry Livgren, Dan Peek, and many others who had the courage to cross the line from the downspiral of addiction to become positive examples to their fans.

[@randyclere2330]

Please put another band together!

[@rwjazz1299]

he's been doing this my entire life. You need to check out his early stuff. He was monster on acoustic guitar. He helped push the boundaries much like Lenny Breau did.

[@brucecockburn5025]

Hi thanks for watching and commenting on my KZbin channel God bless you🤗🌞 hope you don’t stop with your love and support❤️👑✏✒✏kindly drop your email address or WhatsApp contact below for more details about my upcoming album🎊 , 💫Tour or Concert🎄 🎹🎙🎷🎷🎷🎤🎻🥁🎚💛🎷🎷🎷✨💯💯........

[@chrisbreier6255]

Guitar magazine back in the 80's asked Eddie Van Halen what it was like to be the BEST guitarist in the world! He said " I don't know....why don"t you ask Bruce Cockburn?"

[@edwardcarter3023]

Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 🤝

[@roddyg3692]

@ Chris Brier Did you read that yourself? On What specific date was the interview? Or are you just passing on a false claim? The same fake claim about Jimmi Hendrix getting asked the exact same question, and Hendrix also responding 'Why don't you go ask Phil Keaggy"? At least there is a keaggy interview on You Tube in which he denies knowing anything about it, and laughed it off as being just a rumor. When there are no specific facts to support the claim, even referencing a source does not make it true.

[@2vintage68]

That was about the time of "Humans", an incredible album for the time. Van Halen also asked a celebrity neighbor of Glen Campbell to ask Glen if he would give Eddie guitar lessons.

[@Bazerkly]

I am sure glad that Bruce didn't cut his ear off "Running on Absinthe"~~~~ 😱

[@davidmaye6780]

Met his brother today. My brothers doctor.

[@irishofling2300]

❤️

[@cadredeux1047]

Why is it that when I look up the lyrics of Night Train it’s credited to James Henry Boxley and Carlton Ridenhour (aka Chuck D) Bruce just said he wrote it. I always thought it was strange. Discogs credits all lyrics to Cockburn. There is also song by Guns and Roses, But it’s a different song.

[@voyeurvoyager1969]

From cockburnproject.net: Not a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passing That's the sound somebody makes when they're getting away Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them Prisoner only of the choices they've made Night train Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight The moon is floating somewhere out at sea I'm an island in the blur of noise and color Alcatraz, St. Helena, Patmos and the Chateau D'If Night train And everyone's an island edged with sand A temporary refuge where somebody else can stand Till the sea that binds us like the forced tide of a blood oath Will wear it down - dissolve it - recombine it Anyone can die here they do it every day It doesn't take much effort tho it goes against the grain And the ultimate forgetfulness of violence Sweeps the landscape like a headlight of a train Night train Ice cube in a dark drink shines like star light Starlight shines like glass shards in dark hair And the mind's eye tumbles out along the steel track Fixing every shadow with its stare Night train Night train And in the absence of a vision there are nightmares And in the absence of compassion there is cancer Whose banner waves over palaces and mean streets And the rhythm of the night train is a mantra

[@cadredeux1047]

farleydog 69 Awhile ago I looked up the lyrics and on two different sites says He didn’t write the lyrics. I don’t own the CD and discogs says he is author of all the songs on the album. So it’s probably wrong, but I’m trying to find how it could of been confused. I always found the lyrics very interesting.

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@coffeegirl6854]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌹

[@jackhammer111]

I started with "charity of night".

[@jamesc4812]

Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 💓🙏🙏

[@jackhammer111]

@@jamesc4812 I i don don't know what to say. I'm gobsmacked. I'm moved by the simple fact of your reply. You are an inspiration to me. I'm 70 and I'm a better guitar player because I learned pacing the cage and night train. I worked on night train just from a chord chart in standard tuning and knew I was missing something and was proud of my ear when I realized you tuned that G down to F# adding another 3rd to the chord to get that drone sound. Your choices of chord voicings make me swoon with delight and I regard you as a lyricist right up next to Paul Simon. The opening line of "pacing the cage" is the greatest sunset image and the line in "night train" "ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight, starlight shines like glass shards in dark hair" blew me away and it feels great the way it tumbles off the tongue. I've used your music to make points as well. I sang "a dream-like mine" at an Obama rally and I have played "if I had a rocket launcher" on jukeboxes to get people to think about what it's like to be on the receiving end of a helicopter gunship attack and I don't know if I ever heard a more emotionally provocative more passionate song period exclamation point. I not only love your art I respect you personally for how you have used your art. You have done good works. we are grateful that you have done the hard work to develop your art and your craft. most of us are aware but it's not as simple as sitting around waiting for inspiration to come. We know it is work World beach sounds Thank you for your kind reply.

[@alexconstable3155]

Not a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passing That's the sound somebody makes when they're getting away Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them Prisoner only of the choices they have made Night Train... Night Train... Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight The moon is floating somewhere out at sea On an island in the blur of noise and color Alcatraz, St. Alina, Patmos and the Chateau D'if Night Train... Night Train... And everyone's an island edged with sand A temporary refuge where somebody else can stand Till the sea that binds us like the forced tie of a blood oath Will wear it down, dissolve it, recombine it Anyone can die here they do it every day It doesn't take much effort though it goes against the grain And the ultimate forgetfulness of violence Sweeps the landscape like a headlight of a train Night Train... Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight Starlight shines like glass shards in dark hair And the mind's eye tumbles out along the steel track Fixing every shadow with its stare Night Train... Night Train... And in the absence of a vision there are nightmares And in the absence of compassion there is cancer Whose banner waves over palaces and mean streets And the rhythm of the night train is a mantra

[@robertdavidson9393]

Met saw Bruce Niagara ...he was performing arts center 72 or 74 ?Unsure his age ...he was still great ..now uses seems a cane to help him walk ...sadly ...hes a wonderful Performer!

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@robertdavidson9393]

@@brucecockburn3672 who is tbis?

[@alexconstable3155]

Forty years in the wilderness getting to know the beast Projected and reflected on the greatest and the least Forty years of days and nights -- angels hovering near Kept me moving forward though the way was far from clear And they said Take up your load Run south to the road Turn to the setting sun Sun going down Got to cover some ground Before everything comes undone Comes undone Forty years in the wilderness dancing with the flies Dazzled by the visions rolling out before my eyes Angel-made graffiti, demons in disguise You could trade away your birthright for another day's supplies Or you could Take up your load Run south to the road Turn to the setting sun Sun going down Got to cover some ground Before everything comes undone Comes undone Rising with the height of land, falling with the crowd Spirits in the scouring wind called my name out loud Said you could go to heaven, you could go to hell You could hang out in between in the place you know so well Or you could Take up your load Run south to the road Turn to the setting sun Sun going down Got to cover some ground Before everything comes undone Comes undone

[@tatialo37]

If I had a rocket launcher that sob will die....!!! I love that song!

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@RemoSforza]

What model of acoustic guitar are you using? Maybe it's a Bourgeois?

[@voyotaab132]

I believe its a Collings.

[@RemoSforza]

@@voyotaab132 Is a Boucher

[@doug4360]

Usually works with Linda Manzer

[@RemoSforza]

@@doug4360 this One Is a Boucher Dreagnaut

[@RemoSforza]

Bruce Cockburn now Is usin a OM and a Dreagnaut from Boucher....

[@GarySchmidtPianist]

My all time favorite artist since the mid 70's. Such a shame however to hear his singing voice here. Either it is terrible production or his voice is very sadly losing it some? Always love you, Bruce. And no one plays the guitar better.

[@ryanwilson8629]

Boring interview. But the last song Bardo Rush redeemed it. That song is stellar.

[@johnm3152]

3 thousand year old petroglyphs take a a double take

[@thewordofgord]

For those of you who might be hearing Night Train for the first time, do check out the original electric studio version for some seriously good electric guitar and not this joe average strumming. I kid you not.

[@Fingerpikr]

An inspiration to this struggling guitarist, and what a poet.......but what's up with that haircut.....

[@edwardcarter3023]

Thanks for your honest and sincere love towards my work,we have you to be most thankful for . 🤝

[@brucecockburn3672]

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[@TIMOWHITEBUFFALO]

Well..maybe he should just write books..he loves to tell stories..but his guitar and voice...are just too basic and beginner for me..just me..thats my opinion..I only like one song of his...but I didnt think he was so bad...I am sorry...I prefer key changes and ninths and 6ths and 11ths and jazz chordings and a voice that does not sound like your crying all the time..oh shit..I know people are going to attack me..well go for it..

[@TIMOWHITEBUFFALO]

Well I am not a fan..anymore.. He talks too much...

[@doug4360]

Timo Standing Buffalo Cano Sorry. A superb guitarist.

[@moonlitme]

Better luck next life, kid.

[@moonlitme]

It's an interview, lighten up. He's 74 years old. If you ever heard his earlier guitar playing you'd not be calling it 'basic' or 'beginner'.

[@user-jc8py7dw7r]

Timo Standing Buffalo Cano Yea, you’re out of your mind. His guitar playing is anything but basic, so I’m assuming you’re not very bright.