Bruce Cockburn Songlights: Bruce Cockburn; My Morning Jacket; Tamino and Mitski; Halsey; Goat; Elbow; and more. Songs that lit my week: Sunday, March 23–29, 2025.
On Songs & Albums Overstreet Radio: Wilco, Lucy Dacus, Innocence Mission, R.E.M., Bruce Cockburn, and more Here's a long list of new songs that are heating up my cold autumn days. Enjoy!
On Songs & Albums New Bruce Cockburn, Lizz Wright, Lone Bellow If you act quickly, you can listen to three important new end-of-summer releases for free!
On Songs & Albums Bruce Cockburn: Psalms in Seattle Legendary guitarist and songwriter Bruce Cockburn spoke about the Psalms as he moved from song to song during his short, seven-song set on Thursday in Seattle.
On Songs & Albums Bruce Cockburn to Receive the 2015 Denise Levertov Award Wow. The Denise Levertov Award is the prestigious honor given by the good people of Image "to an artist or creative writer whose work exemplifies a serious and sustained engagement with the Judeo-Christian tradition." Past recipients of the award include poets Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, Madeline DeFrees,
On Songs & Albums Joe Henry's Christmas Playlist Our first Christmas Playlist Party host? Please welcome Grammy award-winning producer, poet, and musician Joe Henry, whose new album "Invisible Hour" is, at this writing, my favorite record of 2014 and the one I have played most often.
On Songs & Albums Songwriter in a Dangerous Time Bruce Cockburn, one of my favorite songwriters and guitarists, is writing his memoir! HarperCollins executive editor Jim Gifford bought the book from Cockburn’s long-time manager, Bernie Finkelstein, on the premise that “his work is as relevant today as it was when he first started performing.”
Tom Hanks Browser: Zbignew Priesner. Jeff Buckley. Bruce Cockburn's "Slice O Life." Bob Dylan. U2. Tauntaun. Tom Hanks. 1. Start your day with a quick dose of Zbignew Priesner, my favorite film music composer. Here's a track from A Short Film About Killing, from Kieslowski's Decalogue. 2. Another random musical surprise: M. Ward links to a recorded telephone conversation with Jeff Buckley, who sings
Johnny Cash Friday specials: Frederick Buechner, Bruce Cockburn, Paul Simon, Johnny Cash, "The Prestige" My friend Julie Mullins has written a substantial article about Frederick Buechner's lastest collection, Secrets in the Dark, in the new issue of Image. I highly recommend you pick up a copy of both the book and the journal. Secrets begins with a meditation on the story of
Concerts Bruce Cockburn live in Seattle I promised a report on the live Bruce Cockburn show in Seattle on Wednesday, so here it is at last. Bruce played an intimate set in the beautiful Nordstrom Recital Hall, a smaller venue adjoining Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle. He was meditative, less talkative than usual (probably because this
On Movies & Media Thursday: The Squid and Bruce Cockburn Last night I saw one of the year's best films--The Squid and the Whale--which is a deeply saddening film about the consequences of divorce and joint custody on children. Noah Baumbach first got my attention in 1995 with a delightfully rowdy comedy about college and dating
On Songs & Albums Happy Birthday, Bruce Cockburn! I salute one of the most prolific, influential songwriters alive today — on this, today, his 60th birthday.
