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The last time Tom Cochrane was in these parts, it was for a good time, greatest hits set with Red Rider, coming on before Bruce Springsteen at Magnetic Hill. That show had the feeling of the celebrating past successes and shared memories…
Tom Cochrane doesn’t have much left to prove.
Only, perhaps, that the veteran Canadian musician can still give us rock songs from the heart – with just enough pace and crunch to keep it interesting.
And the 61-year-old Cochrane delivers with his new album Take It Home, out Feb. 10.
Tom Cochrane and Red Rider opened the show with an hour-long set of familiar favorites. Cochrane’s assignment was a tough one – get people over 40 to act like they’re not attached to their chairs with two-sided carpet tape. But Cochrane and his band of four including longtime fretboard genius Kenny Greer made the job look almost easy.
If Tom Cochrane’s life really is a highway, he’s been at a rest stop for most of a decade. But he — and we — can thank Sam Roberts for getting him back in the driver’s seat. According to Cochrane, new CanRock king Roberts urged him to record again…
A comeback is only a comeback if you’ve actually gone away. So don’t refer to Tom Cochrane’s No Stranger, his first album of new material since 1998, as his comeback album. “It’s that old cliche,” Cochrane said yesterday, chatting with reporters about the new disc, due in stores next Tuesday.
On his new release “No Stranger,” Tom Cochrane again explores the human condition from a third person narrative, but does it more intimately thanks to a reconciliation with an old friend.
He’s won his Juno Awards.He’s had songs that have topped the Top 40 charts south of the border.Tom Cochrane is a name synonymous with Canadian rock and yet there’s a part of any real rock ’n’ roller that always remains outside the accolades and the swank hotels, like the Palliser Hotel where Tom is holed up while passing through Calgary
“Songs of the Circling Spirit” Tom Cochrane (Guardian Records): Stripping big. bombastic rock songs down to minimalist acoustic skeletons has been a tact veteran rockers have been using for some time now to revitalize their repertory. Cochrane does
One-time cab driver and sometime poet, Tom Cochrane proved on Thursday he is always a musical day-dreamer.The rocker who grew up in Lynn Lake, Man. drove his unplugged stage show into Red Deer’s Memorial Centre and took the audience on a great escape to Tripoli and beyond. He warmed up the crowd with his super-hit White Hot, penned when Cochrane was with Red Rider.
After merrily cruising on the highway of life, Canadian singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane took a hard left and wound up on a “ragged road.” The title of his latest record, Ragged Ass Road, is directly related to his mood these days; a bit world-weary, a bit cynical, but despite it all, optimistic. .It’s a ‘‘quest of the soul,” Cochrane says.
Not much is known about Red Rider, they’re a Canadian band brought to the attention of your man on the spot in the form od an excellent album: ‘As Far As Siam’ released on Capitol Records.