Tom Cochrane is perhaps not the most well-known entity, but in his own country, he has a stature akin to John Mellencamp, Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen. There's a reason for that: the man is a gritty, solid songwriter, who captures slices of everyday life and portrays them as they are; what passes before our own eyes or happens in the experiences of workaday life are profound, even if only to us. Cochrane has always celebrated those moments without tagging anything else onto them. He has been described as meat-and-potatoes; and maybe so. But if that's the case, check his hit Life Is a Highway that the country group Rascal Flatts rode all the way to the top of the charts and kept there for a long while because of its inclusion in the film #Cars. If it's meat and potatoes, it's not just because of a hip little hook; the words in Cochrane's songs connect on a level most songwriters wish they could get even somewhat close to. Fellow countryman Bryan Adams may have socredd more chart hits, but that's because of his willingness to dwell in some eternal yet mythical teenage landscape, but he's not half the writer Cochrane is, and it's safe to bet that Cochrane's songs will be recorded by others for decades. This brings us to No Stranger, Cochrane's 2006 foray into stripped-down rock roll played in the garage, the bar, or the concert hall. He can claim all those spaces as his own.

1		The Party's Not Over
2		Glide
3		While You Are Young
4		White Horse
5		Didn't Mean
6		Rough and Tumble
7		Out of My Head
8		Deep Breath
9		Northern Star
10		Since You Left Me
11		Colour Blue
12		Spirit In the Sky

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