BRUCE COCKBURN : HIGH WINDS WHITE SKY

1. Happy Good Morning Blues
2. Let Us Go Laughing
3. Love Song
4. One Day I Walk
5. Golden Serpent Blues
6. High Winds White Sky
7. You Point to the Sky
8. Life's Mistress
9. Ting/The Cauldron
10. Shining Mountain

Label : True North

Released : 1971

Length : 38:14

Review (AllMusic) : A remarkably fresh and timeless recording, Bruce Cockburn's second album concentrates far more on roots music than its predecessor. There's the ragtime blues of "Happy Good Morning Blues," the ambitious minor-key troubadour folk of "Love Song," and the slide guitar country of "One Day I Walk" to kick things off. And over the album's original ten songs it just becomes more ambitious. "Golden Serpent Blues," with its poignant and percussive piano lines, is something out of a Western Canadian barrelhouse where the piano player has heard and loved "Lady Madonna." 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.