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Still Rough Around The Edges

Still Rough Around The Edges

Tom Cochrane ‘s in a good place. His first album in six years. No Stranger, is out today. He’s fresh from a summer in which his 1991 anthemic hit, Life is a Highway, was enjoying its second run in the Top 10 chart,at the hands of Rascal Flatts in the movie Cars.

No Stranger - Tom Cochrane

No Stranger

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…

No Stranger - Tom Cochrane

No Stranger

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.

Highway takes on life of its own - Tom Cochrane

Highway Takes On Life Of Its Own

Life is a highway, and Tom Cochrane’s best-known and most oft-played song has been riding it since it appeared on 1991’s Mad Mad World.

Cochrane reunites with Red Rider pal

Cochrane Reunites With Red Rider Pal

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.

Cochrane Busy With Many Causes

Cochrane Busy With Many Causes

Tom Cochrane would have had a new CD out if it weren’t for one thing – he’s been busy most nights riding life’s highway. While this 50-something Juno Awards Hall-of-Famer, who’s similarly known for his philanthropic work…

Rocknet Interview: Tom Cochrane

Rocknet Interview: Tom Cochrane

A few years ago, I gave Tom Cochrane an American Jack London stamp, and said, “you look like him.” Tom wasn’t familiar with Jack’s writing then, and neither was I. So I pursued it and read the “Call of the Wild” to find out what animals thought. Then I read George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm,” not for the political reasons but to find out how animals are characterized in stories.

Tom Cochrane - Charitable Acts

Charitable Acts

Dozens of Canadian performers get together for a benefit concert tonight at CBC in Toronto. Haunted and mobilized by the tragedy in southern Asia, an unprecedented coalition of Canadian broadcasters, relief agencies, celebrities, and politicians is mounting a historic benefit concert. A crew of more than 100 is frantically transforming two rooftop CBC studios this morning,

Tom Cochrane - Canadian Stars Line Up To Help

Canadian Stars Line Up To Help

Rehearsals and other preparations continued yesterday at CBC’s broadcasting centre for tonight’s live telecast of Canada For Asia, a three-hour national special to support relief efforts for the tsunami victims. “It’s a madhouse and it’s wonderful,” said CBC spokesperson Ruth-Ellen Soles. “It’s been political mayhem getting it together, but we got it together,” said singer Tom Cochrane. “It’s precedent-setting, so this is history in the making.”

Stars Gear Up For Tsunami Benefit

Stars Gear Up For Tsunami Benefit

Dubbed Canada For Asia, the not-quite- a-telethon will air from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday’s rehearsals took place on low stages in two large studios on the 10th floor of the CBC Broadcast Centre. Surrounded by stagehands and camera operators, Tom Cochrane performed several run-throughs of Many Rivers To Cross.

Tom Cochrane Always Aims To Be The Best

Tom Cochrane Always Aims To Be The Best

There aren’t many pursuits Tom Cochrane approaches half-heartedly. No matter the task at hand – be it songwriting (which he is famous for), golf (which he is very good at) or flying a plane.

Cochrane Knocks 'EM Dead At Festival

Cochrane Knocks ‘Em Dead At Festival

Tom Cochrane was just getting into a punchy version of his hit sing Big League when a wave of excitement began to ripple through the crowd at the Tulip Festival.

The Untouchable One - Tom Cochrane

The Untouchable One

Before his solo success made Tom Cochrane an inescapable figure in the early 1990s, before Life Is a Highway was an omnipresence sung by schoolkids and corporate suits alike, there was Red Rider.

Cochrane Reflects

Cochrane Reflects

The solo hit Life Is a Highway earned Tom Cochrane his greatest success, but the veteran Canadian singer found his signature sound with his 1980s band, Red Rider. Cochrane talks to The Gazette…

No Regrets

No Regrets

He first captured our attention in the early ’80s singing songs in the band Red Rider. By the ’90s, Tom Cochrane was a household name with hits like Big League, Boy Inside The Man, No Regretss and Life Is A Highway

Celebrating Three Decades In The Big Leagues

Sitting in a Toronto Café, Canadian rocker tom Cochrane exudes a sincerity and a what-you-see-is-what-you-get demeanour rare in an industry dominated by self indulgence.

Cochrane Rides Back Into The Fray - Tom Cochrane Article

Cochrane Rides Back Into The Fray

Tom Cochrane could have comfortably ridden off into the sunet after two decades of making classic Canadian rock ‘n’ roll music. Instead the singer-songwriter decided to ride into the fray one more time with a reunited Red Rider.

Lessons My Father's Death Taught Me - Tom Cochrane Article

Lessons My Father’s Death Taught Me

The boy inside the man may be turning 50 next May, but Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane doesn’t feel the need to slow down or hang it up. In fact, he says, he found inspiration from longtime mentor Bob Dylan.

Cochrane's Father's Spirit Sings - Tom Cochrane Article

Cochrane’s Father’s Spirit Sings

Canadian singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane has pulled off a feat that has become increasingly rare in the music industry he’s penned a Christmas song from the heart.

Headliners: Tom Cochrane

Headliners: Tom Cochrane

After spending much of the 1970’s on the coffeehouse circuit in Canada, and working such jobs as a taxi driver, dishwasher and writing theme music for TV and movies to make ends meet. Tom Cochrane wandered into the infamous El Mocambo club in Toronto.

Old CHEZ Fans Need Their Sleep - Tom Cochrane Article

Old CHEZ Fans Need Their Sleep

Cochrane outlasted the weeknight crowd – When I turned 17, I was listening to a wholly different radio station, a new FM-station, different, at least from the Top-40 AM stations that reigned over Ottawa’s airwaves.