Bruce Cockburn will release The Blood of Others, his 39th album, on October 16 through Sunset Boulevard Records. “I have borrowed the title because it seems perfect for an album of songs I didn’t write.” The Blood of Others opens with “Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down,” a Robert Wilkins gospel song Cockburn first encountered on an early-1970s compilation. A hometown connection surfaces on “Four Strong Winds,” the most recently written song included on the album. Cockburn also revisits “Yellow Dog Blues,” a song he first heard on a Bessie Smith collection as a young boy.