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"The Coldest Night of the Year" was a new track added to the compilation album Mummy Dust and released as a single in 1981. It was recorded in March of that year, just after Cockburn had moved from the country to downtown Toronto, and just before he traded his gentle folkie/Christian mystic guise for a more overtly political stance.
I didn't bother buying Mummy Dust, since I already had (most of) the songs on their original records, so it wasn't until its inclusion on Waiting for a Miracle in 1987 that I remember becoming aware of this song, although I must have heard it on the radio when it was released as a single. I suspect it may have made it onto this list because it was pretty cold when I was collecting nominations, and I had just posted a video of it on Facebook.
| Hometown: | Ottawa |
| Canadian Content: | Scarborough, Yonge Street, the weather |
| Release Date: | 1981 |
| Composer: | Bruce Cockburn |
| Album: | Mummy Dust |
| Style: | Folk rock |
| Charts: | #42 Canadian Singles Chart |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not rank |
| Mar*Star 150: | 129 |
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