Joy Will Find a Way

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Joy Will Find a Way
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Studio album by
Released1975
RecordedJuly – August 1975
Genre Folk, pop
Length43:39
Label True North
Producer Eugene Martynec
Bruce Cockburn chronology
Salt, Sun and Time
(1974)
Joy Will Find a Way
(1975)
In the Falling Dark
(1976)
Singles from Joy Will Find a Way
  1. "Burn"
    Released: 1975

Joy Will Find a Way is the sixth full-length album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. The album was released in 1975 by True North Records and received a gold certification in Canada in 1985.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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In a retrospective review, AllMusic critic Brett Hartenbach wrote, "Though it will appeal to the converted, Joy Will Find a Way, Bruce Cockburn's sixth album, won't do much to garner support outside of these circles. As always, Cockburn is never less than literate, and his guitar is consistently impressive throughout (check out the instrumental "Skylarking"), but there remains the tendency to become overwrought lyrically, as well as to get bogged down musically in the sort of folkish repetition that can be more tiresome than entrancing... Though he hadn't quite hit his stride at this point, this is the best of Bruce Cockburn's first half-dozen albums." [1]

Track listing

All songs written by Bruce Cockburn except where noted.

  1. "Hand-dancing" – 4:30
  2. "January in the Halifax Airport Lounge" – 3:19
  3. "Starwheel" (Bruce Cockburn, Kitty Cockburn) – 3:16
  4. "Lament for the Last Days" - 5:24
  5. "Joy Will Find a Way (A Song About Dying)" – 3:50
  6. "Burn" – 4:08
  7. "Skylarking" – 3:20
  8. "A Long-time-love Song" – 4:41
  9. "A Life Story" – 6:16
  10. "Arrows of Light" - 4:55

Album credits

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Production

References

  1. 1 2 Hartenbach, Brett. "Joy Will Find a Way > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved December 15, 2011.