Jane Siberry's Bound by the Beauty, released in 1989, is a classic pop album with country and jazz flavours. It bounces and rocks along like a train ride and feels like the kind of being in love that leads to empathy and universal love. In "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog": sunsets remind me of my dog/Gina go to your window/Einstein reminds me of my dog/I want to pet his fluffy head. In "Hockey", a Sunday game on the river is nostalgia, present and future, all at once: he'll have that scar on his chin forever/someday his girlfriend will say 'hey where?' "The Valley" offers comfort for a dark time: sometimes you feel all that you wanted/has been taken away/you will walk in good company. In "The Life Is The Red Wagon", Jane sings out that 'good company': but when the feet are dragging you pull for me/and I pull for you, you pull for me and I pull for you. The opening title song could serve as Jane's manifesto: I'm coming back in 500 years/and the first thing I'm gonna do/when I get back here/is to see these things I love/and they'd better be here, better be here.

Musicians Jane Siberry - guitars, piano, vocals Teddy Borowiecki - piano, accordion Ken Myhr - guitars John Switzer - bass, vocals Stich Wynston – drums

Additional Musicians Wendell Ferguson - pedal steel guitar
David Piltch - acoustic bass David Ramsden - vocals Rebecca Jenkins – vocals Anne Bourne – vocals Gina Stepaniuk - vocals Cherie Camp – vocals Don Freed - vocals