I remember the first time I heard Bruce Cockburn. The AM radio station where I got my first part-time gig played Wondering Where The Lions Are (along with every Urban Cowboy wanna-be on the planet).

I’ve not loved everything I’ve ever heard from Bruce Cockburn but everything he’s done I respect. And much of it I really like. And he always has great musicians playing with him.

Margo Timmins sings on Mango and the harp player on When You Give It Away is named Carlos Del Junco, a recent discovery for me. (I loved his latest album, which I reviewed for Blues Revue magazine). Oh, and someone named Lucinda Williams sings on that one, too.

It’s Saturday night. My wife and I are going to lay on the bed and listen to this album, like we did in the old days.

When You Give It Away
Mango
Last Night Of The World

Original Recording | November 1994 | Ithaca, NY

Digital Remaster | September 2007 | Brush Prairie, WA

Cowboy Junkies – Anniversary Song
Michael Murphy – Carolina in the Pines
Alison Krause – Everytime You Say Goodbye
Stephen Stills – My Angel
Indigo Girls – Closer to Fine
Leon Russell – If I Were A Carpenter
Bruce Cockburn – Wonder Where The Lions Are
Brewer and Shipley – Sweet Love
Pure Prairie League – Fallin’ In And Out of Love
Indigo Girls – Hammer and a Nail
Mary Chapin-Carpenter – Middle Ground
George Harrison – Give Me Love
Bare Naked Ladies – Will You Be Waiting
Rickie Lee Jones – Jolie Jolie
Subdudes – Need Somebody
Traffic – You Can All Join In
Los Lobos – Saint Behind The Glass
Clannad – Banba Oir

<a href=”http://www.fusion45.com/wp-content/uploads/audio/2007/master_4.mp3″>A-Frame Tapes, Volume 3</a>

Recorded at the Buddha Barn, Monday night, June 25, 2007

• Kenny Neal – Baby Bee (Big News From Baton Rouge, Alligator, 1988)
• John Mayall – Sitting In The Rain (Looking Back, London, 1969)
• Eric Clapton – Lay Down Sally (Slow Hand, RSO, 1977)
• Blood, Sweat and Tears – Lucretia MacEvil/Lucretia’s Reprise (Blood, Sweat and Tears 3, Columbia, 1970)
• Tom T. Hall – Ravishing Ruby (Rhymer and Other Five and Dimers, Mercury, 1973)
• Rolling Stones – Shattered (Some Girls, Rolling Stones, 1978)
• Bruce Cockburn – Justice (Inner City Front, True North, 1981)
• Gordon Lightfoot – Steel Rail Blues (Lightfoot!, United Artists, 1966)
• Dr. John – Croker Courtbullion (Gris-Gris, Atco, 1968)
• Stevie Ray Vaughan – Tell Me (Texas Flood, Epic, 1983)
• Stonewall Jackson – Greener Pastures (Sadness In A Song, Columbia, 1962)
• Steve Earle – Continental Trailways Blues (Early Tracks, Koch, 1987)

Fusion 45, No. 31 – The Cat’s Still Away