“Broken Arrow” by Robbie Robertson

"Broken Arrow" sits on Robbie Robertson, the Canadian's 1987 debut solo album, and he wrote every word and note of it himself, sings lead and plays guitar. He produced it with Daniel Lanois, who also adds percussion and joins him on backing vocals, and the supporting cast fills quite a room: Peter Gabriel on keyboards, Abraham Laboriel on bass and Terry Bozzio on drums. Jim Scott engineered and took an associate producer credit, and Bob Clearmountain mixed.

It never came out as a single, but Canadian radio picked it up in mid-1988 and it reached number 29 on RPM's Top Cancon Singles chart, which ranked homegrown Canadian music only. In Britain it rode along as the B-side of "Somewhere Down the Crazy River".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.