Stealing Fire

Stealing Fire

Infobox Album
Name = Stealing Fire
Type = studio
Artist = Bruce Cockburn


Released = 1984
Recorded = March – April, 1984 Manta Sound, Toronto, Ontario
Genre = Folk rock
Length =
Label = True North
Producer = Jon Goldsmith
Kerry Crawford
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1tkzu3y5an5k~T1 link]
Last album = "The Trouble with Normal" (1983)
This album = "Stealing Fire" (1984)
Next album = "World of Wonders" (1985)

"Stealing Fire" is an album by Bruce Cockburn released in 1984. It featured the hit singles "If I Had a Rocket Launcher", an angry political commentary on refugees under fire, and "Lovers in a Dangerous Time". John Naslen received a Juno Award for "Recording Engineer of the Year" for his work on this album, and producers Goldsmith and Crawford received a nomination for "Producer of the Year".

Background and writing

After a trip to Central America on behalf of the Canadian arm of the charity Oxfam, Cockburn crafted an album featuring world-music influences and lyrics concerning life in the third world. He was moved by the plight of Guatemalan refugees in southern Mexico ("On the Rio Lancantún one hundred thousand wait"), and wrote the song "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" which reached a high of #88 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with an associated music video regularly played on MTV. Despite the apparent threat of violence in the lyrics, Cockburn would later state, "this is not a call to arms; this is a cry."

The single "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" contains some of Cockburn's most recognizable lyric writing form, with the picturesque line "got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight". This line would be picked up by U2's lead singer and lyricist Bono who would use it in the U2 song "God Part II" (from their 1988 "Rattle and Hum" album) with his own line "I heard a singer on the radio late last night / Says he's gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight". For this reason, Cockburn is credited in the liner notes to "Rattle and Hum". U2 would also later attempt a cover of Cockburn's hit song "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" in rehearsal, but did not formally record the results.

Track listing

All songs written by Bruce Cockburn except as noted.
#"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" – 4:06
#"Maybe the Poet" (Cockburn, Jon Goldsmith, Fergus Marsh) – 4:51
#"Sahara Gold" – 4:30
#"Making Contact" – 4:47
#"Peggy's Kitchen Wall" – 4:46
#"To Raise the Morning Star" (Cockburn, Marsh) – 5:51
#"Nicaragua" – 4:44
#"If I Had a Rocket Launcher" – 4:58
#"Dust and Diesel" – 5:24

Two songs recorded during the "Stealing Fire" sessions, "Yanqui Go Home" and "Call It the Sundance", did not make the final album cut due to the length of the album. They would later be released in 2003 on the remastered CD edition of the album.

Album credits

Personnel

*Bruce Cockburn – guitar and vocals
*Jon Goldsmith – keyboards, background vocals on "Maybe the Poet" and "Peggy's Kitchen Wall"
*Fergus Marshbass and stick
*Miche Pouliotdrums
*Chi Sharpepercussion
*Rick Shurman – ground effects on "Maybe the Poet"
*Vein Dorge, Jerry Johnson, Mike Malone, Rick Taithorns on "Making Contact"
*Joel Feeney – background vocals on "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"
*Paul Henderson – background vocals on "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"
*Shawne Jackson – background vocals on "Maybe the Poet", "Making Contact", "Peggy's Kitchen Wall", "Morning Star"
*Carole Pope – background vocals on "Maybe the Poet", "Making Contact"
*Leroy Sibbles – background vocals on "Maybe the Poet", "Making Contact"
*Tim Ryan – background vocals on "Making Contact"
*Judy Cade – background vocals on "Peggy's Kitchen Wall"
*Kerry Crawford – background vocals on "Peggy's Kitchen Wall"
*Colina Phillips – background vocals on "Peggy's Kitchen Wall", "Morning Star"
*Sharon Lee Williams – background vocals on "Peggy's Kitchen Wall", "Morning Star"

Production

*Jon Goldsmith – producer
*Kerry Crawford – producer
*John Naslen – engineer
*Ron Searles – assistant engineer
*Peter J. Mooredigital remastering
*Blair Dawson – cover painting
*Bart Schoalesart direction
*George Whitesidephotography

Trivia

*"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" was recorded by the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies on the 1991 Cockburn tribute album "Kick at the Darkness".

References

* Liner notes from the 2003 remastered CD edition of "Stealing Fire".
* [http://cockburnproject.net/albums/stealingfire.html Cockburn Project] – Interview notes on "Stealing Fire" songs.


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