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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, December S, 1980
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Bruce Cockbum: 'born again' music with the human touch
By Bret Kefford
The Christian movement is advanc¬
ing into many segments of American
life.    In recent years it has made
significant in roads into the musk
industry.
Many   major   record   companies
have started affiliated Christian la-
The time Vias come
to speak of...
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tions (as have most Christian oriented
business ventures). Many prosperous
musicians have left 'heathen* music
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'heaven* musk.
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Dylan and Dan Peek (formerly of
America) have joined established
Christian stars such as Larry Norman,
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But the best of all might be Bruce
Cockbum.
Canadian Bruce Cockburn (pro¬
nounced Co-Bum) has been awarded
the Canadian "folkslnger of the Year
Award* four times. He is an ac¬
knowledged star In his homeland.
Cockbum also gained many fans in
the states a few months back with the
single 'Wondering Where the Lions
Are* off his prior album. His newest
offering is called Humans and its
a superb effort.
Most Christian music is technically
and electrically awful. Bruce Cock-
bum's music doesn't suffer from the
maladies the majority of Christian
music suffers from. No syrupy
strings; no overwrought harmonies;
no sugarsweet, shallow lyrics. Cock¬
bum music is tough and blunt. He
is not overwhelmed by Christianity as
Dylan and others have been. He sees
the world realistically, not through
stained-glass windows.
Cockbum does not always sing di¬
rectly about Cod. In fact, if he did
not sUte that he was 'bom again',
it would be quite difficult to recog¬
nize. He even says dogshit. Some of
the title of the cuts are 'Cuerilla
Betrayed*, Tokyo*, 'Facist Archi¬
tecture* and 'How I Spent My Fall
Vacation.' Cockbum even has the
gall to criticize the clergy in "Grim
Travellers*.
Ministers    work-work    on    the
Movement of goods
also on the movement of
human beings
as it we were so many cattle.
The music on Humans might be
classified as'street folk.* There is a
definite toughness to the Cockbum
sound, with a grey feeling that evokes
images of cold, grim, big city winters.
Cockbum attacks his acoustic guitar
with abandon, setting the pace for
the tunes, highlighted by the sax of
Pat LaBarbera.     His voice is  not
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