High Winds, White Sky Explained

High Winds, White Sky
Type:studio
Artist:Bruce Cockburn
Cover:High_Winds,_White_Sky_(Bruce_Cockburn_album)_front_cover.jpg
Released:1971
Recorded:November 1970 - April 1971
Studio:Thunder Sound Studios and Toronto Eastern Sound
Genre:Folk
Length:44:54
Label:True North
Producer:Eugene Martynec
Prev Title:Bruce Cockburn
Prev Year:1970
Next Title:Sunwheel Dance
Next Year:1972

High Winds, White Sky is the second studio album from Bruce Cockburn, released in 1971 on the True North label. It was remastered in 2003 by Rounder Records with two bonus tracks recorded live in 1970. The album received a Canadian gold record award in 1986.

Reception

In a retrospective review, music critic Thom Jurek, writing for Allmusic, called the album "A remarkably fresh and timeless recording... Overall, however, this album—like Sunwheel Dance that follows it—presents a far more mystical Cockburn. His tenderness and poetic vision are almost pastoral on these early recordings, something that would get burned off and become hard-bitten (if no less romantic and more dramatic) as his music and social vision grew."

Track listing

  1. "Happy Good Morning Blues" - 2:39
  2. "Let Us Go Laughing" - 5:20
  3. "Love Song" - 2:26
  4. "One Day I Walk" - 3:06
  5. "Golden Serpent Blues" - 3:33
  6. "High Winds White Sky" - 3:01
  7. "You Point to the Sky" - 2:56
  8. "Life's Mistress" - 3:24
  9. "Ting/the Cauldron" - 6:30
  10. "Shining Mountain" - 5:14

2003 bonus tracks

  1. "Totem Pole (Live)" - 3:25
  2. "It's An Elephants World (Live)" - 2:39

Tracks 2 thru 9 recorded at RCA's Thunder Sound Studios, Toronto
Tracks 1 and 10 recorded at Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto
Tracks 11 and 12 recorded live on January 23, 1970 at the Bitter Grounds Coffee House in Kingston, Ontario

Personnel

Personnel - Production