In the Falling Dark

by Bruce Cockburn

In the Falling Dark cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1977
  • Label: True North
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:13:51
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Canadian folk artist utilizes incredibly intricate, jazz-inflected acoustic guitar fingerpicking to anchor this deeply introspective set of songs. Moving away from purely pastoral themes, the album begins to grapple more directly with spiritual searching and sharp social observation. The meticulously crafted record cemented his reputation as a masterful, highly literate contemporary songwriter within the North American folk scene.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, acoustic, storytelling, literary, biblical, male-vocals, guitars

Tracklist

  1. Lord Of The Starfields (3:29)
  2. Vagabondage (4:19)
  3. In The Falling Dark (4:54)
  4. Little Seahorse (4:32)
  5. Water Into Wine (5:33)
  6. Silver Wheels (4:45)
  7. Giftbearer (4:41)
  8. Gavin's Woodpile (8:08)
  9. I'm Gonna Fly Someday (4:04)
  10. Festival Of Friends (4:43)
  11. Red Brother Red Sister (4:16)
  12. Untitled Guitar (8:46)
  13. Shepherds (7:15)
  14. Dweller By A Dark Stream (4:18)

Credits

  • Bruce Cockburn - primary artist, guitar, voice, words by, written-by [all songs], music by, dulcimer, guitar [guitars]
  • Michel Donato - acoustic bass
  • Bob Disalle - drums
  • Bill Usher - percussion
  • Kathryn Moses - flute [flutes], piccolo flute
  • J酶rn Andersen - percussion
  • Dennis Pendrith - bass
  • Fred Stone - flugelhorn [fluegelhorn], trumpet

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