“I thought, maybe songwriting’s over for me.”
Bruce Cockburn told me that after finishing his memoir, he went three years without writing a song, which is a fairly alarming place to land when you’ve already made 32 albums and built a life out of leaving a trail. What got him moving again was a documentary about Canadian poet Al Purdy, and the invitation to write for it forced the door back open.
That song became “3 Al Purdy’s,” and then the rest of Bone on Bone followed. Cockburn also got into the strange overlap of faith, politics, compassion, and trying to keep making useful noise in an increasingly cracked world. Plus, he had the correct attitude toward getting inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame: “As long as it doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be dead.”
Bruce Cockburn on Mortality, Memoirs, and Spiritual Fuel
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