High Winds White Sky

Bruce Cockburn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002854
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,153 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1991 release. Still sealed.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every track is a winner., August 23, 1998

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This review is from: High Winds White Sky (Audio CD)

This is one you will play over and over again and never get tired of. Every song is well written and is beautiful in its own way. The music has kind of a dreamlike quality without being too introspective.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Early Zen Sense, November 20, 2003

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o dubhthaigh (north rustico, pei, canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Highwinds White Sky (Dlx) (Audio CD)

informs this CD from the very beginnging of Cockburn's recording career. The music is acoustically driven, and the lyrics more charged by observations of life in Toronto/Ottawa than on a larger world stage. His attentions tend to look and consider the interior spiritual plain as well. As the cover illustrates, this is a winter type of album, to be listened to fireside.
Musically the guitar work is just so sublime and amazing! The songs are essentially just Bruce, with occasional accompaniement, such as the complex and yet deeply spiritual pace of "Ting/The Cauldron." It was this early display of his absolutely spiritual commitment to his craft that let anyone who was on to Bruce early know that they were being taken into the confidence of a man with something very deep to convey about Music itself. And the songs include some truly masterful efforts: "One Day I Walk," "Love Song,", "You Point To the Sky."
A word about the remastering: it is as sparkling as it can be. Of course, that was the case with the original vinyl and the ESD CD from the 80's. Goes to show what care True North and Bernie Finkelstein put into ensuring and endorsing the quality inherent in Bruce's work. The fact that this was first released in 1971 gives you a sense of the commitment that both artist and management have made to the music.
Refreshing, eh?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Early Cockburn, September 25, 2003

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Kenaz Filan (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Winds White Sky (Audio CD)

While this isn't quite up to the standards of masterpieces like *In the Falling Dark" or "Dancing in the Dragons Jaws," it's still a worthy effort with some real moments of intelligence, feeling and transcendent beauty. Some of the songs are starting to sound a bit dated: "Happy Good Morning Blues" should follow Jackie Paper and Puff the Magic Dragon to the Land of Honah Lee, and "Let Us Go Laughing" meanders a bit without ever really picking up steam.

But patience pays off here. "Golden Serpent Blues" is one of Cockburn's best, with a haunting melody bolstered by some gorgeous piano work. Following it is yet another standout, the title track. These are both classic Cockburn; although he wasn't yet identifying as a Christian, the deep mystical strain which would appear through much of his later work (and, sadly, disappear from many of his more stridently political songs) is evident. "One Day I Walk" and "Love Song" show Cockburn's poetical side: the latter evokes St. John of the Cross more than Leonard Cohen or the Cure. He hadn't yet hit his full stride as a musician -- the arrangements remain rather conventional country-folk, without the jazzy rhythms and instrumental virtuosity which grace much of his later work. Still, this is a solid album: if you're a fan of early 70s folk-rock singers, you'll love this CD. Cockburn developing his talent is still miles above most anyone else playing today...