High Winds, White Sky

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High Winds, White Sky
High Winds, White Sky (Bruce Cockburn album) front cover.jpg
Studio album by Bruce Cockburn
Released 1971
Recorded November 1970April 1971 at Thunder Sound Studios and Toronto Eastern Sound
Genre Folk
Length44:54
Label True North
Producer Eugene Martynec
Bruce Cockburn chronology
Bruce Cockburn
(1970) Bruce Cockburn1970
High Winds, White Sky
(1971)
Sunwheel Dance
(1972) Sunwheel Dance1972
Singles from High Winds, White Sky
  1. "One Day I Walk"
    Released: 1971

High Winds, White Sky is the second studio album from Bruce Cockburn, released in 1971 on the True North label. It was remastered in 2003 by Rounder Records with two bonus tracks recorded live in 1970. The album received a Canadian gold record award in 1986.

Bruce Cockburn Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter

Bruce Douglas Cockburn is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics including human rights, environmental issues, politics, and Christianity.

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Reception

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In a retrospective review, music critic Thom Jurek, writing for Allmusic, called the album "A remarkably fresh and timeless recording... Overall, however, this album—like Sunwheel Dance that follows it—presents a far more mystical Cockburn. His tenderness and poetic vision are almost pastoral on these early recordings, something that would get burned off and become hard-bitten (if no less romantic and more dramatic) as his music and social vision grew." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Happy Good Morning Blues" - 2:39
  2. "Let Us Go Laughing" - 5:20
  3. "Love Song" - 2:26
  4. "One Day I Walk" - 3:06
  5. "Golden Serpent Blues" - 3:33
  6. "High Winds White Sky" - 3:01
  7. "You Point to the Sky" - 2:56
  8. "Life's Mistress" - 3:24
  9. "Ting/the Cauldron" - 6:30
  10. "Shining Mountain" - 5:14

2003 bonus tracks

  1. "Totem Pole (Live)" - 3:25
  2. "It's An Elephants World (Live)" - 2:39

Tracks 2 thru 9 recorded at RCA's Thunder Sound Studios, Toronto
Tracks 1 and 10 recorded at Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto
Tracks 11 and 12 recorded live on January 23, 1970 at the Bitter Grounds Coffee House in Kingston, Ontario

Personnel

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure. The lead is the featured guitar, which usually plays single-note-based lines or double-stops. In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz, punk, fusion, some pop, and other music styles, lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompaniment chords and riffs.

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Eugene "Gene" Martynec is a Canadian musician, composer and record producer.

Personnel - Production

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References

  1. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. "High Winds, White Sky > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved December 15, 2011.