DU Album of the Day: "Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws" Bruce Cockburn

Okay, there has been some discussion of late of great songs and the greatest song ever. The discussion can end now, as the winner is from this album, "Wondering Where the Lions Are." A tri-partite song featuring four stanzas, then two, then one, with a terrifically singable chorus, compelling imagery, and based on real life events as they informed the songwriter's dreams. Outstanding in every way, with words perfectly married to music.

But if you begin and end with this veteran singer-songwriter's lone U.S. chart entry (number 21 on Billboard, probably the only hit single ever to use the word "petroglyph&quot , you're missing out on a master songwriter who can also play a pretty mean guitar, both electric and acoustic. The album's songs flow and hang together in a way that you just don't see very often. This is a musician with the heart of a poet, starting off with a vision of the world being called and danced into existence, and ending with an irresistible current drawing us toward the rim of a shining cup.

1 Creation Dream
2 Hills of Morning
3 Badlands Flashback
4 Northern Lights
5 After the Rain
6 Wondering Where the Lions Are
7 Incandescent Blue
8 No Footprints