“After the Rain” (1979) – Bruce Cockburn * Written by Bruce Cockburn * LP: Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws * Produced by Gene Martynec * Label: True North
“After the Rain” is a wordy expression of pantheistic ecstasy in which a frolicking piano hook settles into a bemused minor 7th chord. The song’s bliss-amid-blight theme recurs all throughout Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws, perhaps the most poetic and musically sophisticated of all Christian pop albums. The following year of 1980 would find the inventive Canadian singer-singwriter Cockburn newly divorced and taking a much harder look at his world.