Musicians
A Dream Like Mine
Bruce Cockburn - Electric guitars and Vocals
Larry Klein - Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Denny Frongheiser - Drums
Micahel Blair, Ralph Forbes - Percussion
Sam Phillips - Backing Vocals
Kit Carson
Bruce Cockburn - Electric guitars and Vocals
Michael Been - Bass
Edgar Meyer - Acoustic Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Jim Keltner - Drums & Percussion
Mighty Trucks Of Midnight
Bruce Cockburn - Electric guitars and Vocals
Larry Klein - Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Jim Keltner - Drums
Soul Of A Man
Bruce Cockburn - Resonater Guitar & Vocals
Michael Been - Bass
Jim Keltner - Drums & Washboard
Great Big Love
Bruce Cockburn - Electric & Acoustic Guitars and Vocals
T-Bone Burnett - Electric Guitar
Larry Klein - Bass
Denny Frongheiser - Drums
Micahel Blair, Ralph Forbes - Percussion
Sam Phillips, Jackson Browne - Backing Vocals
One Of The Best Ones
Bruce Cockburn - Acoustic Guitars and Vocals
Michael Been - Bass
Edgar Meyer - Acoustic Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Jim Keltner - Drums
Mark O'Connor - Violin
Somebody Touched Me
Bruce Cockburn - Electric Guitar and Vocals
T-Bone Burnett - Acoustic Guitar
Larry Klein - Bass
Edgar Meyer - Acoustic Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Denny Frongheiser - Drums
Jim Keltner - Drums
Michael Blair - Tamborine
Cry Of A Tiny Babe
Bruce Cockburn - Electric Guitar and Vocals
Michael Been - Bass
Edgar Meyer - Acoustic Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Jim Keltner - Drums
Sam Phillips - Backing Vocals
Actions Speak Louder
Bruce Cockburn - Electric Guitar and Vocals
Larry Klein - Bass
Edgar Meyer - Acoustic Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Denny Frongheiser - Drums
Ralph Forbes - Percussion
Indian Wars
Bruce Cockburn - Acoustic Guitar and Vocals
Jackson Browne - Resonator Guitar & Vocals
Mark O'Connor - Violin & Mandolin
When It's Gone It's Gone
Bruce Cockburn - Electric Guitars
Edgar Meyer - Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Micahel Blair, Ralph Forbes - Percussion
Mark O'Connor - Violin
Child Of The Wind
Bruce Cockburn - Resonator Guitar & Vocals
Edgar Meyer - Acoustic Bass
Booker T. Jones - Organ
Mark O'Connor - Violin
Johnny Walker: One thing that T-Bone seems to have done is suggesting people who would work on the album, and for a change you made it in Los Angeles rather than
Canada, and Booker T Jones plays organ on it, of Booker T and the MG's fame.
BC: Yes, we had a great cast on this record, which is largely T-Bone's doing.
He came up with this list and, as it turned out, they were all available,
which was a bit of a miracle in itself. We had Jim Keltner on drums, Booker
T. I mean, for the average person that doesn't read their liner notes, Booker
T'll stand out from the rest. We had Jackson Browne, who also played guitar
on a song called Indian Wars (sort of a rhythm guitar part) and sang on it,
and sang on a couple of other things. Sam Phillips also sang some stuff and
generally we had a wonderful time.
JW: You obviously wanted a change of sound, then, by recording in LA. Were
you not worried, though, that it might end up a bit too polished, a bit too
session-sounding.
BC: No, I wasn't worried about that. If it had seemed like it was going to go
that way we wouldn't have pursued that direction at all. What I really wanted
was to do it anywhere but Toronto, because for the last twenty years I've
been recording in Toronto and I needed a change.
- Radio Interview, BBC Radio 1, 1992, Interviewer Johnny Walker. Transcribed and submitted to the project by David Newton.
James Jensen: The album "Nothing But a Burning Light" introduced a new producer
(T. Bone Burnett) and a new flavor or sound including Dobro.
BC: "Soul Of A Man" is a long time favorite of mine and I'd played it
live but never recorded it but T Bone asked me in pre-production if I
had any other things I could think of to record and it just came to
mind because of the content of the song and the style seemed to fit
what we were doing. That album was a conscious attempt to get at
singable melodies that didn't count on a guitar part to make them
work which made the songs structurally simpler. It struck me at one
point that I almost had no songs a non musician could just sit around
and sing and I thought that was a kind of an absence and I'd rather
be remembered for having songs that people could sing at a party or
whatever. It seemed like there was a bit of a gap there and I was
trying to address it and still am on the current album. (I was told
that this album will be a first in that it contains only love songs)
-- from an Interview by James Jensen at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, circa Spring 1993.
-- from "Definitely Not the Opera", CBC Radio, Interviewer: Nora Young, 7 September 1996. Anonymous Submission.
-- from Bruce Cockburn Interview, Guitarist Magazine, November, 1999, by Steve Lawson.
-- from "Why Bruce Matters Now", The Toronto Star, March 3, 2001, by Greg Quill.