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Bruce Cockburn's Live On World Cafe (2002) |
You've Never Seen Everything (2003) |
Slice O Life (2009) |
Rumours of Glory - box set Disc 2 (2014) [compilation album] |
There's darkness in the canyon
But the Light comes pounding through
For me and for you
There's darkness in the canyon
But the Light comes pounding through
For me and for you
There's darkness in the canyon
But the Light comes pounding through
For me and for you
For me and for you
Musicians
Bruce Cockburn: Electric Guitar and Vocals
Gary Craig: Percussion Kit
Larry Taylor: Upright Bass
Hugh Marsh: Violin
Stephen Hodges: Drums, Percussion
Jackson Browne: Harmony
Editor's note:
This song was first released in 2001 on Bruce Cockburn's Live On World Cafe which was packaged with Anything,Anytime,Anywhere.
This is a song that won't get recorded probably, until sometime in the new
year when we do a "real" new album. The idea for it, which is one that
goes back some years and I've been carrying it around all this time.
The song was borne of an experience in a hot spring out in the Rockies at
the end of the 70s. And I was driving through and stopped off and stayed
with some people and they introduced me to this place it was an
uncommericalized hot spring just bubbling out of the side of the mountain
and I went there by myself one night and watched the moon come on the other
side of the valley and It was a very, kind of deeply moving experience.
And I hadn't "just for the record", imbibed any kind chemicals or
substances that might produce the mystical effect but the mystical effect
was there none-the-less. For years I was trying to figure out how to make
a song out of that and eventually, this year, I was able to do that.
At the moment it's called Celestial Horses, I'm not sure it'll stay with
that title or not. People might remember that at the end of the 70s it
was also a tense time because at that point we weren't sure if Russia and
China were going to go to war so there was a lot of feeling in the air, a
feeling of uncertainty and concern about our future and I think that
might've played into the song as well.
-- From World Cafe 10th Anniversary Show CD, circa 25 September 2001. Submitted by Suzanne D. Myers.