Joy Will Find a Way

Joy Will Find a Way is the sixth full-length album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. The album was released in 1975 by True North Records and received a gold certification in Canada in 1985.

Joy Will Find a Way
Studio album by Bruce Cockburn
Released	1975
Recorded	July – August 1975
Genre	Folk, pop
Length	43:39
Label	True North
Producer	Eugene Martynec
Bruce Cockburn chronology
Salt, Sun and Time (1974) Joy Will Find a Way (1975) In the Falling Dark (1976)
Singles from Joy Will Find a Way
"Burn" Released: 1975

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

In a retrospective review, AllMusic critic Brett Hartenbach wrote, "Though it will appeal to the converted, Joy Will Find a Way, Bruce Cockburn's sixth album, won't do much to garner support outside of these circles. As always, Cockburn is never less than literate, and his guitar is consistently impressive throughout (check out the instrumental "Skylarking"), but there remains the tendency to become overwrought lyrically, as well as to get bogged down musically in the sort of folkish repetition that can be more tiresome than entrancing... Though he hadn't quite hit his stride at this point, this is the best of Bruce Cockburn's first half-dozen albums."^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Bruce Cockburn except where noted.

1. "Hand-dancing" – 4:30
2. "January in the Halifax Airport Lounge" – 3:19
3. "Starwheel" (Bruce Cockburn, Kitty Cockburn) – 3:16
4. "Lament for the Last Days" - 5:24
5. "Joy Will Find a Way (A Song About Dying)" – 3:50
6. "Burn" – 4:08
7. "Skylarking" – 3:20
8. "A Long-time-love Song" – 4:41
9. "A Life Story" – 6:16
10. "Arrows of Light" - 4:55

Album credits

Personnel

• Bruce Cockburn – composer, vocals, guitar, dulcimer
• Dennis Pendrith - bass
• Terry Clarke - drums
• Dido Morros - percussion
• Pat Godfrey - keyboards
• Eugene Martynec - guitar
• Beverley Glenn Copeland - backing vocals
• Linda Page Harpa - backing vocals
• Malika Hollander - backing vocals
• Zezi Taeb - backing vocals
• Alexa De Wiel - backing vocals
• Jeffrey Crelingston - backing vocals

Production

• Mavel Mousette - translation
• Eugene Martynec - producer
• Blair Drawson - album cover paintings
• Harry Savage - album photography
• Bart Schoales - art direction
• Bernie Finkelstein - direction