Stealing Fire [Bonus Tracks] by Bruce Cockburn (CD, Oct-2003, Rounder Select)

Album Features
UPC:	011661321328
Artist:	Bruce Cockburn
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2003
Record Label:	Rounder Select
Genre:	Rock & Pop, Singer/Songwriter

Track Listing
1. Lovers in a Dangerous Time
2. Maybe the Poet
3. Sahara Gold
4. Making Contact
5. Peggy's Kitchen Wall
6. To Raise the Morning Star
7. Nicaragua
8. If I Had a Rocket Launcher
9. Dust and Diesel
10. Yanqui Go Home - (bonus track)
11. Call It the Sundance - (bonus track)

Details
Contributing Artists:	Leroy Sibbles
Producer:	Jon Goldsmith, Kerry Crawford
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	AAD

Album Notes
Personnel: Bruce Cockburn (vocals, guitar); Vern Dorge, Jerry Johnson, Mike Malone, Rick Tait (horns); Jon Goldsmith (keyboards, background vocals); Fergus Marsh (bass, stick); Miche Pouliot (drums); Chi Sharpe (percussion); Joel Feeney, Paul Henderson, Shawne Jackson, Carole Pope, Leroy Sibbles, Tim Ryan, Collina Phillips, Sharon Lee Williams (background vocals).Recorded at Manta Sound, Toronto, Canada in March & April, 1984.Personnel: Bruce Cockburn (vocals, guitar); Rick Tait, Vein Dorge, Jerry Johnson , Mike Malone (horns); Jon Goldsmith (keyboards, background vocals); Michel Pouliot (drums); Chi Sharp (percussion); Shawne Jackson, Sharon Williams, Paul Henderson, Kerry Crawford, Leroy Sibbles, Tim Ryan, Colina Phillips, Judy Cade, Sharon Lee Williams, Joel Feeney, Carole Pope (background vocals).Liner Note Author: Nicholas Jennings.Recording information: Manta Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (03/1984-04/1984).Photographer: George Whiteside.After visiting Central America, Bruce Cockburn recorded Stealing Fire, part of which passionately and eloquently details what he'd seen while in Nicaragua and Guatemala. With the opening track, the terse rocker "Lovers in a Dangerous Time," Cockburn conveys both a sense of urgency and uncertainty. There's a brief calm as the second half begins, before a triad of songs written about his time spent in Central America brings the record to a sober conclusion. These three tunes, which, like the majority of the album, sport a tight, worldbeat, folk and rock flavor, are the true highlights of Stealing Fire, and Cockburn at his very best. The first, "Nicaragua," is part observation, part commentary, and part tribute to the Sandinista-led revolution in that country. "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" follows, and is arguably Cockburn's most powerful merging of personal and political feelings. Written after witnessing Guatemalan refugees being chased across the border by gun-wielding helicopters, "Rocket Launcher" evokes not only the pain and suffering of the people, but the conflict between Cockburn's pacifist leanings, and the vengeful anger and hatred incited by such a horrific sight. The Nicaraguan, road-inspired "Dust and Diesel" closes the record with a portrait of a country whose daily contrast of beauty and violence is summed up by the images of people who are proud, hopeful, passionate, afraid, and tired. Stealing Fire, despite a few less than compelling tracks, is the work of an artist at his peak. It also contains some of the most intensely significant material by a singer/songwriter in the 1980s. ~ Brett Hartenbach

Editorial Reviews
Cockburn's in full blaze by this album - both stylistically and emotionally.
Dirty Linen (20040401)

4 Stars - Excellent - ...The inspirations behind Cockburn's AOR stylings are his Christian convictions, strong environmental concerns and a loathing of genocide and oppression. If it sounds over-worthy, surprisingly it isn't.
Q (19950701)