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Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner In Timbuktu
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0014431040726
Label: Rykodisc
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
MPN: 10407
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rykodisc
Release Date: September 14, 1999
Studio: Rykodisc
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Editorial Review:
As well as any record he's ever made, this Bruce Cockburn release illustrates just what makes him so compelling and tough to corner. Opening with a well-greased John Lee Hooker groove, Cockburn slides from a dream in which he'd "been wearing O.J.'s gloves" and couldn't get them off, into the stranger, waking world of punks, cafes, tourists, and journalistic half-truths. From his ceaseless wanderings, Cockburn has absorbed Brazilian, African, and Eastern musical accents. More importantly, he has a traveler's vision, always in awe of far-flung mysteries. His guitar work remains a marvel of rhythmic complexity and technical precision (the bloated fuzz reading of "Blueberry Hill," however, is an exception). Spoken word trances; white-hot Metheny-esque instrumentals; Dylan-esque cryptographies of politics and sex; and metaphysical love lyrics (three of which feature harmony from Lucinda Williams)--there's an off-hand, unpretentious ambition to these songs, a visceral sense of spiritual and artistic fulfillment. --Roy Kasten
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Lyric brilliance backed by strong music
A prolific producer of fine, lyric-driven music for nearly 30 years, Bruce Cockburn is consistently able to turn his life observations into striking and thoughtful songs. On "Breakfast in New Orleans" this alchemist's gift is applied to topics ranging from the ecological ("The Embers of Eden") to the philosophical ("When You Give It Away") to the personal ("Isn't That What Friends Are For?").
Cockburn's gritty singing style is most effective, often touching listeners as though sung ... Read More
Rating:  - His Twenty Eighth Album
(62.36 minutes)
Now if you ask me, and a lot of aficionados of geographic oddities do now and again, the title of this album describes a feat that would be surprisingly difficult to pull off. Bruce claims that he actually did that one day, ate breakfast in New Orleans, and ate his dinner in Timbuktu, and I ain't about to suggest the man is fibbin' but that sure would be a logistical conundrum. What with the curvature of the earth and the sun advancing to the west, and the Coriolis Effect ... Read More
Rating: - Great!
"Last Night of the World" and "Look How Far" are the best tracks. I have only seen Bruce live once, in Minneapolis over ten years ago...need to see him again and soon!
What a treasure of creativity and positive energy this man is...I would love him to produce one of my songs, like "Sister."
There are not many with the talent this man has. :)
Jeffrey McAndrew
Rating: - It's about reality
Bruce rarely excites but never dissappoints. I've had this album for a while now but the power of Isn't That What Friends Are For has only now slammed me in the face and made me say: yeah,that's what friends are for. So simple, yet irresistable.
And everyone who hears Bruce's version of Blueberry Hill loves it. How best to describe this music? It's music to love.
Rating:  - Start somewhere else
Cockburn is a brilliant artist; this is one of his weaker albums. There are too many spoken word pieces. He has made them taut and effective in the past ("Charity of Night," "Birmingham Shadows") but here they are limp, wan, unfinished-seeming--piles of words not turned into lyrics, musical backing not made into song. Blunt, unpleasant images abound, from the newborn baby sliding out of the nurse's hands in the opening track, to the judge and the hookers in "Let the Bad Air Out." The decent image in the ... Read More
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