Bruce Cockburn is the debut album of Bruce Cockburn, who is firmly in the folk singer/songwriter mode here, and also the very first release from True North records, TN-1.
Bruce Cockburn entered the RPM weekly chart on 16 May 1970, peaking at #65 on the Top Albums chart. The back-to-the-earth anthem "Going to the Country" and happy-go-lucky "Musical Friends" were both released as singles, reaching #4 and #26, respectively, on RPM's Adult Contemporary chart.
"The Bicycle Trip," not surprisingly, reminds me of several of mine: the line about the katydid humming monotonously always brings back a particular stretch on a trip to Manitoulin Island when I fell far behind cousin Kim Kelly on a long straight stretch up the Tobermory peninsula. These early Cockburn albums – and this is not my favourite – always remind me of when my sister Sherri lived upstairs at my grandmother's house on 40 Euclid Avenue in Waterloo. I remember one sunny afternoon, in particular, sitting around listening to music (including High Winds White Sky) and drinking tea with Sherri, Linda Lees and Rhonda Kelly.
| Hometown: | Ottawa |
| Label: | True North |
| Release Date: | 1970 |
| Producer: | Eugene Martynec |
| Style: | folk |
| Mar*Star 125: | 81 |
| Mar*Star 150: | 134 |
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