True North Records Records will release Bruce Cockburn s 29th studio recording entitled LIFE SHORT CALL NOW. This beautiful album follows up 2005 s Speechless Cockburn s first-ever instrumental record. Life Short Call Now was recorded at Puck s Farm outside of Toronto. It includes 12 Cockburn originals and features guest appearances from Ani Difranco, Ron Sexsmith, Hawksley Workman and Damhnait Doyle. Life Short Call Now was produced by JOHNATHAN GOLDSMITH who also produced Bruce Cockburn s Stealing Fire in 1984. Several of these songs were written during and after Bruce Cockburn s 2004 fact-finding mission to Baghdad. Some tracks feature Cockburn with a twenty-three piece orchestra which is a first for Bruce.