Americana Highways brings you this exclusive premiere watch of Bruce Cockburn’s slideshow video with his new song “Sweetness and Light.” This song is from his forthcoming instrumental album Crowing Ignites, which was produced by Colin Linden and is due out September 20 on True North Records.
So often people focus on “lyrics first,” but this album focuses on music and musicianship, and accompanied by Cockburn’s exquisite acoustic fingerwork, it demonstrates the depth at which music, alone, can touch the human heart. Crowing Ignites exhibits Cockburn’s adept acoustic fingerpicking acumen, on a collection of songs that are introspective complements to his Celtic and world music inspirations. “Sweetness and Light” is loyal to its title, and will bring you exactly what you need in your day.
There I am at home, practicing, exploring, with the guitar in DADGAD, a tuning I’ve been playing around with for a while now, and I think, ‘What if I move my left-hand fingers this way? And then that way?’ Suddenly there’s the beginning of a new piece. It more or less wrote itself over the next hour. It wanted to be called ‘Sweetness and Light,’ and so it was. –Bruce Cockburn
Order the album here: https://smarturl.it/crowing-ignites; consult the tour dates below the video here:
BRUCE COCKBURN 2019 US TOUR DATES
SEPT 7 Sisters, OR Sisters Folk Festival
SEPT 20 Nashville, TN City Winery
SEPT 21 Ferdinand, IN Ferdinand Folk Fest
SEPT 23 Nelsonville, OH Stuart Opera House
SEPT 24 Goshen, IN John S Umble Center
SEPT 25 Grand Rapids, MI Covenant Arts Center
SEPT 27 Chicago, IL Old Town School
SEPT 28 Chicago, IL Old Town School
SEPT 29 Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center
SEPT 30 Fargo, ND Fargo Theatre
OCT 24 Brooklyn, NY Murmur Theatre
OCT 25 Albany, NY The Egg
OCT 26 Collingswood, NJ Scottish Rite Theatre
OCT 27 Alexandria, VA The Birchmere
NOV 10 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre
NOV 11 Missoula, MT Wilma Theatre
NOV 12 Boise, ID Vac Theatre
NOV 14 Salt Lake City, UT State Room
NOV 15 Grand Junction, CO Avalon Theatre
NOV 16 Durango, CO Henry Strater Theatre
NOV 17 Boulder, CO Boulder Theatre
NOV 19 Phoenix, AZ MIM
NOV 20 Los Angeles, CA McCabe’s Guitar Shop
NOV 21 Berkeley, CA Freight & Salvage
NOV 22 Berkeley, CA Freight & Salvage