Bruce Cockburn / Stealing Fire - CD (Used)

Details: Amazon.ca Inspired by a visit to Central America in 1983, Stealing Fire remains the most direct and acerbic album of Bruce Cockburn's long career, and one studded with classics, from the goose-bumpy opener, "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"--excellently covered some years later by the Barenaked Ladies on an ultra-rare Cockburn tribute disc, Kick at the Darkness--to the powerful "If I Had a Rocket Launcher." His outrage at the depredations of dictators, rebels, and Reagan's political machine is in full view, while his examination of the human condition is sheer poetry. There's plenty of fire in the instrumental backing, too, with a consistent hardness in the sound that comes close to outright rock--exactly what the songs need to underscore Cockburn's anger. No longer could Cockburn be deemed a folkie, even considering the relative delicacy of a song like "Nicaragua." Like Pete Seeger before him, his concern is justice and humanity for the small man and woman, and in expressing that so eloquently, he made what became the biggest-selling studio album of his career. --Chris Nickson

UPC: 620638005729

EAN: 0620638005729

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood