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    Cockburn’s Creative Life

    Bruce Cockburn is a poet, songwriter, political activist, guitarist and singer. His songs have been featured on network tv. His lyrics have been quoted by U2 (“Gotta kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight,” in U2’s God, Part II. From Cockburn’s, Lovers in a Dangerous Time). Cockburn’s artistic output is stunning – a catalog of 30 albums over 40 years. As Wikipedia notes, “Twenty Cockburn records have received a Canadian gold or platinum certification as of 2013, and he has sold nearly one million albums in Canada alone.” I’m sure many singer-songwriters would be thrilled to lay claim to writing just one of Cockburn’s 300 songs. It’s almost impossible to single…