Speechless (Bruce Cockburn album)

Infobox Album
Name = Speechless
Type = compilation
Artist = Bruce Cockburn


Released = September 27, 2005
Recorded = 1971 – 2005
Genre = Folk rock
Length =
Label = True North
Producer = Bruce Cockburn
Colin Linden
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:r06atr4ykl6x~T1 link]
Last album = "You've Never Seen Everything"
(2003)
This album = "Speechless"
(2005)
Next album = "Life Short Call Now"
(2006)

"Speechless" is the first instrumental album by Bruce Cockburn. Released in 2005, it collects various instrumental compositions spanning most of his career, from his third album ("Sunwheel Dance"), through to new recordings for this album.

Track listing

All songs written by Bruce Cockburn.
#"Foxglove" – 1:28
#"Train in the Rain" – 3:42
#"Water Into Wine" – 5:31
#"Elegy" – 4:05
#"Mistress of Storms" – 6:08
#"Rouler Sabosse" – 3:46
#"Salt Sun and Time" – 3:09
#"Islands in a Black Sky" – 7:37
#"Rise and Fall" – 8:15
#"Sunrise on the Mississippi" – 3:00
#"King Kong Goes to Tallahassee" – 3:04
#"When It's Gone It's Gone" – 4:17
#"Deep Lake" – 6:47
#"The End of All Rivers" – 5:53
#"Sunwheel Dance" – 1:48

Personnel

*Bruce Cockburn – guitar, bells, producer, compilation producer, Navajo flute, Tibetan bowls, baritone guitar
*Mark O'Connor – mandolin
*Ben Riley – drums
*Gary Burton – vibraphone
*Booker T. Jones – organ
*George Koller – bass, dilruba
*Edgar Meyer – bass
*Rick Lazar – percussion
*Michael Blair – percussion
*Ralph Forbes – percussion
*Colin Linden – producer, engineer, mixing, compilation producer
*T-Bone Burnett – producer
*Gene Martynec – producer
*Bruce Anthony – producer
*Joe Henry – production assistant
*Greg Calbi – mastering
*Patrick McCarthy – engineer, mixing
*John Whynot – engineer, mixing
*Ken Friesen – engineer
*Joe Schiff – engineer
*Bill Seddon – engineer
*Glyn Johns – mixing
*Michael Wrycraft – photography
*Kevin Kelly – photography

References

* [http://www.truenorthrecords.com/Blog.php?blogid=114 "Speechless" press release]