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23 September 2002

Greetings,

Peter Black of Revolver Records passed along this press release to
The Cockburn Project to share with our readers. I thought you'd all
enjoy the news it holds, particularly those of you in Europe and the
UK..

Peace,
Suzanne Myers
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 17, 2002

BRUCE COCKBURN's 30-YEAR TRUE NORTH ALBUM CATALOG FINDS A HAVEN
AT
REVOLVER
RECORDS

Long-term reissue campaign begins with 24-bit digitally remastered
editions
of IN THE FALLING DARK (1976), FURTHER ADVENTURES OF (1978), DANCING
IN THE
DRAGON'S JAWS (1979), INNER CITY FRONT (1981), and THE TROUBLE
WITH
NORMAL
(1983), each with bonus material

Full version of 1990 LIVE concert album now includes "If I Had a
Rocket
Launcher"

Newly-commissioned liner note essays written by Canadian music
authority
Nicholas Jennings, author of Before the Gold Rush

First 6 albums arrive in stores October follow-up by Revolver
compilation
released in January, Anything Anytime Anywhere (Singles 1979-2002)

The prodigious album catalog of Revolver recording artist Bruce
Cockburn,
which has earned him music industry as well as cultural and state
awards
around the world, will be the focus of the most ambitious and
extensive
reissue campaign ever devoted to one artist in Revolver's
history.
Set to
arrive in stores October in deluxe packages are new editions of IN
THE
FALLING DARK (originally issued in 1976), FURTHER ADVENTURES OF
(1978),
DANCING IN THE DRAGON'S JAWS (1979), INNER CITY FRONT (1981), and
THE
TROUBLE WITH NORMAL (1983).

A sixth album, simply titled LIVE, recorded at Toronto's Ontario
Place in
1989 and issued the following year, completes this initial series of
entries
in the Bruce Cockburn catalog. The original 14-track double-LP is now
restored to include a 15th track, "If I Had a Rocket
Launcher."

The six titles follow up last January's release of Cockburn's
first
album
for Rounder, the 16-song Anything Anytime Anywhere (Singles 1979-
2002). The
aptly titled compilation showed that, over the course of the last two
decades (plus), Bruce Cockburn has managed to apply his distinctive
stamp on
progressive radio waves with stunning regularity.

From his very first U.S. breakthrough hit "Wondering Where the
Lions
Are"
(heard on DANCING IN THE DRAGON'S JAWS), through the never-ending
string of
career-defining songs that won new fans through the '80s and
'90s –
"If I
Had a Rocket Launcher," "Lovers In a Dangerous Time,"
"Call It
Democracy,"
"Last Night of the World," and more – the collection
showcased an
artist who
has stayed committed to the cutting edge. It was bolstered by two
brand new
tracks, "My Beat" and the title track "Anything Anytime
Anywhere."

All six album reissues were digitally remastered at the E Room in
Toronto
by engineer Peter Moore, utilizing 24-bit technology. The five studio
album
recordings have all been expanded to conclude with one to four bonus
tracks
each; the 70-minute Live album is issued in its original sequence,
interrupted only by the addition of "If I Had a Rocket
Launcher."
Each of
the six albums feature its own newly-commissioned liner note essay
written
by Nicholas Jennings, a Cockburn aficionado and author of Before the
Gold
Rush, a critically acclaimed history of the Yorkville (Toronto)
heyday of
Canadian music in the 1960s.

This first wave of releases encompass a fascinating period in Bruce
Cockburn's life – as he made the transition from the acoustic
folk
setting
of the mid-'70s to a more jazz-informed approach in the '80s.
The
scope of
Cockburn's artistry at this point in his career paved the way for
his
timely
embrace of the (then as-yet unnamed) "world beat." These new
rhythms
would
gradually facilitate the musical expression of his concerns for
global
crises at home in North America and throughout the third world,
concerns
that occupy him to this day.

Recipient of the Order Of Canada and Juno awards numbering in the
double-digits in his native country, Holland's prestigious Edison
award,
countless worldwide gold, platinum, and multi-platinum
certifications –
Bruce Cockburn is one of our treasured musical resources. Can it
really be
more than three decades since he earned his first consecutive Juno
awards as
"Folksinger of the Year" in 1971, '72, and '73?

In 1970 Bernie Finkelstein inaugurated the True North label in
Toronto with
Bruce Cockburn's self-titled debut album. Finkelstein was, and
continues to
be, Bruce Cockburn's manager. Over the decades, Cockburn's 26
True
North
albums have been issued on various prominent U.S. labels, (among them
Columbia, Epic, and Island), but now, nearly the entire back catalog
will
have its home at Rounder. Rounder, of course, will also be releasing
Cockburn's 27th album, currently in the recording process, and
set to
arrive
in stores next year.

"Over the course of 32 years and nearly as many recordings,"
Jennings
writes, "the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter has always
pushed
the
musical envelope. Never one to rest on his creative laurels, he has
constantly tried on new ideas without ever abandoning the fabric of
earlier
material. The result is a rich body of work – deep, diverse and
never
disappointing – that stands the test of time and includes some of
the
most
sophisticated and evocative songs in pop music." The initial six
albums in
the Bruce Cockburn reissue campaign shake down as follows:

IN THE FALLING DARK

Originally released in 1976, In the Falling Dark was the first of a
trilogy
of recordings that bridged Bruce Cockburn's acoustic work of the
early '70s
with his electric period a decade later. It's a landmark album,
one
that
announced Cockburn's arrival as an important songwriter. But
it's
also a
generative recording, planting the creative seeds that came to
fruition
fully on the subsequent studio albums Further Adventures Of and
Dancing in
the Dragon's Jaws. With its compelling songs and majestic sweep,
In
the
Falling Dark is the perfect place to discover the impressive range of
Bruce
Cockburn's artistry.

IN THE FALLING DARK by Bruce Cockburn (originally recorded
September-November 1976) Selections: 1. Lord of the Starfields •
2.
Vagabondage • 3. In the Falling Dark • 4. Little Seahorse
• 5. Water
Into
Wine • 6. Silver Wheels • 7. Giftbearer • 8. Gavin's
Woodpile • 9.
I'm Gonna
Fly Some Day • 10. Festival of Friends • Bonus tracks: 11.
Red
Brother Red
Sister • 12. Untitled Guitar • 13. Shepherds • 14.
Dweller by a Dark
Stream.


FURTHER ADVENTURES OF

With the success and attention that came after the release of his
1976
album In the Falling Dark, Bruce Cockburn's world grew suddenly
when
the
acclaimed singer-songwriter made his first performance ventures
outside of
Canada, to Japan and the northeastern United States. Around this same
time,
Cockburn also encountered the work of a number of freethinking
writers whose
books became a strong influence. Absorbing brave new ideas and
influences
from near and far, the aptly titled Further Adventures Of (originally
released in 1978) continues the spirited acoustic jazz of
Cockburn's
previous recording and finds him in full, exploratory flight.

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF (originally recorded April-May 1978)
Selections: 1.
Rainfall • 2. A Montrιal Song • 3. Outside a Broken Phone
Booth with
Money
in My Hand • 4. Prenons La Mer • 5. Red Ships Take Off in the
Distance • 6.
Laughter • 7. Bright Sky • 8. Feast of Fools • 9. Can I
Go With You •
10.
Nanzen Ji • Bonus track: 11. Mountain Call.

DANCING IN THE DRAGON'S JAWS

Rounding out the 1970s and completing a trilogy of acoustic jazz-folk
albums that included In the Falling Dark and Further Adventures Of,
Bruce
Cockburn's Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws stands as both an
era-ending
album
and a cumulative release that neatly built on the strengths of its
predecessors. Featuring some of his finest guitar work ever, the
album was
voted an "essential" recording by Acoustic Guitar magazine,
putting
Cockburn
in the prestigious company of such revered pickers as Django
Reinhardt,
Andrιs Segovia, Bill Frisell and Mississippi John Hurt. It also
provided
Cockburn with a commercial breakthrough on the strength of his
buoyant Top
40 hit "Wondering Where the Lions Are."

DANCING IN THE DRAGON'S JAWS by Bruce Cockburn (originally
recorded
May-June 1979) Selections: 1. Creation Dream • 2. Hills of
Morning •
3.
Badlands Flashback • 4. Northern Lights • 5. After the Rain
• 6.
Wondering
Where the Lions Are • 7. Incandescent Blue • 8. No Footprints
• Bonus
tracks: 9. Dawn Music • 10. Bye Bye Idi.

INNER CITY FRONT

For Bruce Cockburn, the months leading up to Inner City Front's
1981
release had been fraught with change: his marriage of 10 years
dissolved,
leading him to switch from country to city life. Taking an apartment
in
downtown Toronto, he assembled a band of crack musicians and adopted
a more
rugged, urban sound. Gone were most traces of the Gentle Folkie of
the late
1960s and even the Mystic Christian of the '70s. In their place
was
the
Bruce Cockburn of the '80s, highly politicized and sporting an
electric
guitar.

INNER CITY FRONT by Bruce Cockburn (originally recorded April-June
1981)
Selections: 1. You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance • 2.
The
Strong
One • 3. All's Quiet on the Inner City Front • 4. Radio
Shoes • 5.
Wanna Go
Walking • 6. And We Dance • 7. Justice • 8. Broken Wheel
• 9. Loner •
Bonus
tracks: 10. The Coldest Night of the Year • 11. The Light Goes On
Forever.

THE TROUBLE WITH NORMAL

Bruce Cockburn's political activism is immediately apparent on The
Trouble
With Normal, an album bristling with anger and outrage. Perhaps the
heaviest song on the album is the synth-laden title track. Citing
labor
strikes, tenant struggles and Third World subjugation, Cockburn
laments "the
grinding devolution of the democratic dream." Essentially,
it's a
rejection
of the status quo and a call to action. "The trouble with
normal,"
warns the
chorus, "is it always gets worse." When Cockburn performed
the song
in the
summer of 2002, he introduced it this way: "This is an old song
that
seemed
timely when I wrote it and unfortunately it still does." Like
Inner
City
Front and its predecessor, Humans, The Trouble with Normal is a rich
testament to Bruce Cockburn's increasingly sophisticated
sound-and
worldview.

THE TROUBLE WITH NORMAL by Bruce Cockburn (originally recorded
September
1982 January 1983) Selections: 1. The Trouble with Normal • 2.
Candy
Man's
Gone • 3. Hoop Dancer • 4. Waiting for the Moon • 5.
Tropic Moon • 6.
Going
Up Against Chaos • 7. Put Our Hearts Together • 8.
Civilization and
Its
Discontent • 9. Planet of the Clowns • Bonus tracks: 10. Cala
Luna •
11. I
Wanna Dance with You.

LIVE

Bruce Cockburn's concerts are always a wonder to behold:
expansive,
entrancing and full of surprises. Live, recorded in August 1989, has
all of
those qualities in abundance. With songs dating from 1976's In
the
Falling
Dark to 1987's Waiting for a Miracle albums, it features a cross-
section of
the Canadian artist's finest material-although some of it has
been
dramatically reinterpreted. For Cockburn, this is half the fun. As
the
acclaimed singer-songwriter once told an interviewer: "I
don't feel
any
obligation to slavishly duplicate what's on the record."
Along with
his
deeply personal declarations of faith and highly passionate songs of
social
criticism, the album boasts a carefree quality and even a comical
side that
never comes across on his studio recordings.

LIVE by Bruce Cockburn (originally recorded August 14-15, 1989)
Selections: 1. Silver Wheels • 2. World of Wonders • 3.
Rumours of
Glory •
4. See How I Miss You • 5. After the Rain • 6. Call It
Democracy • 7.
Tibetan Side of Town • 8. Wondering Where the Lions Are • 9.
Nicaragua •
Bonus track: 10. If I Had a Rocket Launcher 11. Broken Wheel •
12.
Stolen
Land • 13. To Raise the Morning Star • 14. Maybe the Poet
• 15.
Always Look
on the Bright Side of Life (Track 10, If I Had a Rocket Launcher, is
the
bonus track).

1) Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Title: In The Falling Dark
Cat#: TND 285
Bar Code#: 6-20638-0285-2

2) Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Title: Further Adventuires Of
Cat#: TND 286
Bar Code#: 6-20638-0286-2

3) Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Title: Dancing In The Dragon's Jaw
Cat#: TND 287
Bar Code#: 6-20638-0287-2

4) Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Title: Inner City Front
Cat#: TND 288
Bar Code#: 6-20638-0288-2

5) Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Title: The Trouble With Normal
Cat#: TND 289
Bar Code#: 6-20638-0289-2

6) Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Title: Live
Cat#: TND 290
Bar Code#: 6-20638-0290-2

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