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COWBOY JUNKIES – ” All That Reckoning / Ghosts “

Posted: April 6, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Weird times out there, eh? We hope you and your loved ones are all safe and secure and actively listening to the advice of your public health officials…it’s the only way that we can all get through this thing…and we are all in this thing together, whether we like it or not.
In the meantime, we have some new music for you to listen to and hopefully provide you with a small distraction. It’s a set of songs that we’ve been working on for the past year and which we were set to launch when our worlds turned upside down. The plan was to release a very limited edition, audiophile double-album made up of a re-mastered, re-cut version of All That Reckoning along with a second disc that contains the new music, Ghosts. We have the test pressings and they sound beautiful. But, as you all know, logistics are difficult right now, so we are delaying the release of the vinyl (there will be no CD) until the world returns to something resembling normal.

In the meantime we have decided to release the new music on streaming sites everywhere. It’s an intense set of songs, but that’s probably not a surprise to you….read on if you are interested in the genesis of Ghosts.

In July of 2018 we released our album All That Reckoning. Two months later our mother died and we realized that there was more reckoning still to come. Ghosts is the result of that realization; a suite of songs revolving around grief, pain, fear, anxiety, beauty; a set of songs examining the complexity of emotions that subsume us after losing a parent. We were writing and creating these songs while we were touring ATR and as they took shape it became clear to us that they belonged as part of, or at least as an addendum to, the songs that make up All That Reckoning. They deal with the ultimate reckoning, the reckoning that comes with the death of a loved one and the reassessing that one goes through as one tries to process such a loss.

The concept behind this project was to present it as a two disc vinyl-album set. All That Reckoning and Ghosts work best as two bodies of work, reflecting off of each other, but you know what they say about the best laid plans of men….so in the meantime enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.

COWBOY JUNKIES – ” Trinity Sessions ” Released 28 Years Ago Today

Posted: November 6, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Cowboy Junkies have just recorded the Blind Willie Johnson song “Jesus Coming Soon”. This is for the upcoming Blind Willie Johnson tribute album “God Don’t Never Change”  featuring recordings by Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Sinead O’Connor, Rickie Lee Jones, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks and many more…The release date has yet to be scheduled, but we’ll let you know. Cowboy Junkies will also be looking back at The Trinity Session recording on their Facebook Page this month. They will be posting pictures from behind the scenes of that special day and much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XVJj4jER4

The Trinity Session is a 1988 album by “Cowboy Junkies”  and was their second album release. Recorded in Toronto at the Church of the Holy Trinity at the end of November 1987,  with the band circled around a single microphone. The album includes a mixture of original material by the band and some covers of classic Folk Rock and County songs . including the band’s most famous single, a cover of  The Velvet Underground song “Sweet Jane” , based on the version found on the Live 1969 Velvet Underground album rather than the later studio version from “Loaded” . Also included is “Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)”, which is both a cover and an original, combining a new song by the band with the pop standard “Blue Moon“. Released in early 1988 on latent records in Canada. then released later that year through-out the rest of the world on RCA records.

In 2007 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow’s Parties-curated ” Don’t look Back”  series. Also in that year, the band returned to The Church of the Holy Trinity to record a new version of the Trinity Session with special guest musicians Natalie Merchant, Vic Chesnutt and Ryan Adams. This new set of recordings was released as “Trinity Sessions Revisited” to commemorate the 20th anniversary Of ” The Trinity Sessions”. release.