Consumer Guide Album

Bruce Cockburn: Humans [Millennium, 1980]
Occasionally he hits a phrase that merits its aura of heightened significance: coming at the climax (not end) of "Guerilla Betrayed," the line "I'd like to put a bullet through the world" says it all. More often he wrecks an acceptably literate description with the likes of "across the straight [really `strait,' but spelling doesn't count] a volcano flew a white smoke flag of surrender." Vocals that work a nice synthesis of conversation and declamation cover his ass. B-