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Bruce Cockburn
Solo artist Ottawa Canada Canadian singer‐songwriter and guitarist
Bruce Cockburn is an artist from Ottawa. Bruce Cockburn has 27 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Wondering Where The Lions Are”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #161. The station that charted Bruce Cockburn most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Bruce Cockburn, born in 1945 and from Ottawa, has spent decades proving that a folk singer with a guitar can hit as hard as any rock band. His playing is intricate and restless, pulling in folk, folk rock and jazz, and his voice has the grain of somebody who has seen a few things and wants to tell you about them.
In Canada the honors piled up early: the Juno for Folk Artist of the Year in 1971, 1972 and 1973, and again in 1980, 1981 and 1982. The records traveled well too. In the Falling Dark in 1976 brought the gently rolling "Silver Wheels", Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws in 1979 had "Wondering Where the Lions Are", and Stealing Fire in 1984 brought both the furious "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" and the yearning "Lovers in a Dangerous Time". The Charity of Night in 1996 carried the brooding "Pacing the Cage", and Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu in 1999 added "Last Night of the World".
He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2002, and the Governor General's Performing Arts Award and a place in the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame are on the list as well.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bruce Cockburn on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wondering Where The Lions Are | 8 | #161 | – | – | |
| 2 | Pacing the Cage | 7 | #223 | – | – | |
| 3 | If I Had A Rocket Launcher | 2 | #689 | – | – | |
| 4 | Lovers In A Dangerous Time | 3 | #404 | – | – | |
| 5 | Last Night Of The World | 2 | #1280 | – | – | |
| 6 | Silver Wheels | 1 | #639 | – | – | |
| 7 | Open | 1 | #670 | – | – | |
| 8 | Call Me Rose | 1 | #91 | – | 2011 | |
| 9 | Put It In Your Heart | 1 | #993 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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