Between the Grooves
Malcolm Burn
Sunday, September 15
Join acclaimed singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn for a candid off the cuff conversation about the art of creativity and the art of living.
Audio interview here:
https://radiokingston.org/en/broadcast/between-the-grooves/episodes/bruce-cockburn-o-sun-o-moon
Teaser:
MB: I met Bruce about 30 years ago when Bruce was mixing his The Charity of Night album at Daniel Lanois’ studio in New Orleans. I asked him for his impression of how time passes — how things evolve and how people now maybe feel completely different… or are they the same?
Bruce says, “Time passes, there’s no question about that. For me, the older I get the more I’m inclined to be reminded by happenstance, by things I encounter, of the distant past. Most of my life I’ve not been inclined to look back much or forward. I tend to look at where I am most of the time.
At this point in my life, there are a lot more connections… [there are] both pleasant and unpleasant memories, ways in which something really worked, or they really didn’t. It’s not like stock-taking, I don’t think. It’s not like I’m not measuring ‘where has this all brought me to,’ it’s just that the imagery is there and it’s interesting, in a way, because there are regrets and there are things that I’ve never allowed myself to feel much pride in what I do. It’s more about just getting it right. But looking back there are certain things I feel proud of. I listen to an old album, one of the early ones, this is going back 50 years, and that wasn’t so bad. We did a good thing there. With those things, especially listening to the music, it’s like looking through an album of photographs that takes you back to where you were when you made those recordings.”
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Print interview here:
https://malcolmburn.substack.com/p/bruce-cockburn
