“Silver Wheels” by Bruce Cockburn

"Silver Wheels" comes from In the Falling Dark, Bruce Cockburn's seventh studio album, issued on True North, and the credits show how far he had moved from the spare acoustic settings of his earlier records. Cockburn wrote it, sings it and plays guitar, but now a band surrounds him: Michel Donato on bass, Bob DiSalle on drums, Bill Usher on percussion and Fred Stone on flugelhorn. Gene Martynec produced and Ken Friesen engineered.

That fuller sound is why the album is seen as a turning point for the Canadian songwriter. Usher stayed with him for his cross-Canada tour in 1977, which ran from Fredericton to Victoria and spent long stretches in Quebec, where Cockburn talked to his audiences in French.

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