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Bruce Cockburn: Rumours of Glory

Nicholas Jennings, True North Records, November 2014

IN HIS ILLUMINATING memoir, also called Rumours of Glory, Bruce Cockburn writes: "My songs are influenced by what I read, where I travel and what I witness." He adds: They're not just about spirituality or "war, injustice and exploitation", but "derive from life itself".

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