Music Review

The Charity of Night

Bruce Cockburn
Reviewed by Chris Willman | Jan 31, 1997
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Bruce Cockburn

Not since, well, Billy Corgan's last opus has anyone used dusk-to-daylight imagery as expansively as on Bruce Cockburn's 23rd album. As a famously spiritual sensualist who feels ''at home in the night but hungry for dawn,'' this politico-romantic masterfully evokes night as a cloak of comfort and corruption both. And if he throws murderers and land mines into The Charity of Night, it makes his juxtaposed joie de vivre more vital.

Originally posted Jan 31, 1997 Published in issue #364 Jan 31, 1997 Order article reprints

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