The Cowboy Junkies will probably always be caught between the desire not to mess with a good thing and the urge to break with formula. For the last fifteen years or so — that is, the period since the breakthrough […]
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There’s a curse as well as a blessing when you emerge with a work as striking as The Trinity Session, the Cowboy Junkies’ woozy, haunted, stinging 1988 debut. While that masterpiece established the kind of reputation the Canadian band could […]
Ever since their acclaimed late-’80s breakthrough The Trinity Session, the Cowboy Junkies’ sound — underamped instruments, lugubrious tempos and singer Margo Timmins’ glacial cool — has become an alt-cowpoke cliche. The very style that brought them acclaim quickly became the […]
“I wish I had a blue guitar/A blue guitar to play all night long/Singing songs of loss and love/Singing songs…’til morning comes.” “Blue Guitar”, the second song on Miles From Our Home, typifies the Cowboy Junkies on several levels. The […]
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