Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (Remastered) Bruce Cockburn

• 1 Going To The Country 03:16
• 2 Musical Friends 02:58
• 3 One Day I Walk 03:09
• 4 Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long 06:28
• 5 All The Diamonds 02:43
• 6 Silver Wheels 04:42
• 7 Wondering Where The Lions Are 03:44
• 8 Tokyo 03:31
• 9 Rumours Of Glory 05:03
• 10 The Coldest Night Of The Year 04:26
• 11 Wanna Go Walking 02:55
• 12 The Trouble With Normal 03:37
• 13 Lovers In A Dangerous Time 04:08
• 14 If I Had A Rocket Launcher 05:01
• 15 Call It Democracy 03:53
• 16 People See Through You 03:46
• 17 Waiting For A Miracle 04:52
• 18 Stolen Land 05:22
• 19 If A Tree Falls 05:42
• 20 A Dream Like Mine 04:55
• 21 Listen For A Laugh 04:08
• 22 Night Train 06:14
• 23 Pacing The Cage 04:38
• 24 Last Night Of The World 04:52
• 25 Anything Anytime Anywhere 03:35
• 26 Open 04:04
• 27 Put It In Your Heart 05:23
• 28 Different When It Comes To You 02:59
• 29 Call Me Rose 03:16
• 30 States I'm In 05:41
• Total Runtime 02:09:01

Info for Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (Remastered)

With 34 previous releases, 13 JUNO wins, two Hall of Fame inductions, countless honorary Doctorates, Officer of The Order of Canada — and new inductee into Canada’s Walk of Fame this year — all spanning a 50+ year career — it’s no small task to encapsulate Bruce Cockburn’s inimitable imprint when it comes to Canadian music and culture. But his newly announced double-album release, Bruce Cockburn Greatest Hits (1970 – 2020), is a good place to start.

Curated by Bruce Cockburn and set for release December 3rd 2021 via True North Records, this definitive collection meticulously corrals the acclaimed singer/songwriter’s most favoured tracks — from songs that shot to the top of the charts upon release, to long-lauded fan-favourites requested on tour, time and time again.

Expect to settle in for a chronological journey from the legendary artist’s earliest offerings, to today; curated by Cockburn himself, the hand-picked selection of 30 songs revisit works from 1970 to 2020 and are accompanied by exclusive notes from the artist.

“In 1969, when I was feeling the need to record an album of the songs I’d been writing, I had no concept of what that might lead to,” Cockburn shares. “Not unusual for a young person, I guess…

“In some organic way, it felt like it was ‘time’. The future wasn’t really an issue. It still isn’t. For each of us, there’s a future or there isn’t.

“But looking back over the arc of fifty years of recording, performing, and travel — not to mention, relationships and personal challenges — I can only shake my head and mutter a word of thanks for all of it. Even if I’d been a planner by nature, I doubt I could have predicted how things have gone.

“And they’re still going!” (Bruce Cockburn)

"One of the purposes of a set like this is to tease the listener with the riches to be found elsewhere in an artist’s back catalogue. For Cockburn this has worked extremely well as wanting to hear how ‘Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long’ was interpreted in 1974 and what was on the albums passed over for inclusion has sent me off for several purchases. His memoir ‘Rumours of Glory’ is also well worth a read to understand the source of his lyrics. 2021 has been a great year for new music but also for the quality of thought that has gone into compiling retrospectives, and this is one of the best." (Tim Martin, americana-uk.com)

Bruce Cockburn

Compilation produced by: Bernie Finkelstein, Bruce Cockburn and Colin Linden Mastered by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, New Jersey

Digitally remastered

Bruce Cockburn
In a career that now spans 40 extraordinary years, singer-songwriter, musician, activist Bruce Cockburn has established himself as both an exemplary citizen and one of Canada’s finest artists. In the course of his career, he’s written songs that have become anthems, have chronicled and taken a stand important issues and revealed potent insight into the human condition.

His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles. His illustrious career has been shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity.

Cockburn has won high praise as an exceptional songwriter and a revered guitarist. His songs of romance, protest, and spiritual discovery are among the best to have emerged from Canada over the last four decades. His guitar playing, both acoustic and electric, has placed him in the company of the world’s top instrumentalists. And he remains deeply respected for his activism on issues from native rights and land mines to the environment and Third World debt, working for organizations such as Oxfam, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, and Friends of the Earth.

Throughout, Cockburn has deftly captured the joy, pain, fear, and faith of human experience in song. Whether singing about retreating to the country or going up against chaos, tackling imperialist lies or embracing ecclesiastical truths, he has always expressed a tough yet hopeful stance: to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.

This album contains no booklet.