With every album he released during the first half of the '70s, Bruce Cockburn continued to evolve and show signs of greatness, and with his seventh, In the Falling Dark, he makes good on these promises. As a whole, this record trumps anything that its predecessors had to offer, almost to the point where it's difficult to imagine that it followed the release of Joy Will Find a Way by only a year. The sound that was merely suggested on his previous recordings is fully realized here: check out the flute and trumpet interplay on the jazz inflected instrumental "Giftbearer," the hypnotic "I'm Gonna Fly Someday" with its irresistible flute, horn, and voice line, and Fred Stone's flügelhorn on "Silver Wheels.
Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin is a tribute and benefit album, with all proceeds to Jesse Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund. It features Bruce Springsteen, Counting Crows, The Wallflowers, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Bleachers, Billie Joe Armstrong, Dinosaur Jr, Frank Turner, Tom Morello, Steve Van Zandt, Spoon, The Hold Steady, Low Cut Connie, Rancid and more. The full album tracklisting is a proper trawl through his career from the glorious D Generation days right up to the very recent past.
"Paul Bruce Dickinson" (born August 7, 1958 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England) is a British singer, airline pilot, radio show host, fencer and songwriter, best-known as the lead singer in the iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden. According to All Music Guide, Dickinson 'was the most acclaimed and instantly recognizable vocalist to emerge from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the early-'80s'. Before Iron Maiden, he was the singer in a similar band called Samson from 1979 until he joined Iron Maiden two years later in 1981.Dickinson quit Iron Maiden in 1993 in order to pursue his solo career and was replaced by Blaze Bayley, who had previously been the lead singer of the metal band Wolfsbane. Dickinson's solo work ranges from the Alternative Rock sound of 1996's Skunkworks, to the all out Metal style of Accident of Birth. Dickinson was releasing an artistic energy he felt was suppressed by Iron Maiden's strict progressive metal format, which he claimed could not accommodate emotional reflection as evidenced in the lyrics of 'Tears of the Dragon.'…..
Bruce Dalt (Bruce Boxleitner) hat sein bisheriges Leben vollends seiner Karriere und der Vermehrung seines Vermögens gewidmet. Als erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann und landesweit bekannter Sportansager lässt er sich von niemandem so leicht etwas sagen oder in seinem wettbewerbsorientierten Denken beeinflussen. Das wird ihm nun jedoch zum Verhängnis, als er während eines Basketballspiels seines Sohnes mit dem Schiedsrichter heftig aneinandergerät. In der Folge verliert er nicht nur seinen Job als Sportansager, sondern muss auch Sozialstunden bei der örtlichen Heilsarmee abarbeiten. Ausgestattet mit einer kleinen Handglocke soll er während der Weihnachtszeit Spenden für Bedürftige sammeln, ein Job, den er zunächst als unter seiner Würde betrachtet. Erst als er die Menschen, denen die Gelder zugutekommen näher kennenlernt, beginnt er seine Sicht auf die Dinge zu ändern…