He probably knows more about rocket launchers, refugees and environmental degradation than half the bureaucrats in the United Nations, and over the last 20 years Bruce Cockburn has refined his way of exploring them in song. However, it wasn't always politics and it isn't today.
His love songs are among his most introspective pieces. Cockburn approaches his music as a conversation; he'll put his travels, his ideas and his emotions into wondering where the landmines are, and he desires something in return, a response, a reaction. A recent album of his is "Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu" and he takes his global citizenship seriously. Part folkie, part beat-poet and part 'wandering minstrel.'
