Review: cowboy junkies

Subject: Review: cowboy junkies
From: ballpienhammer
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 07:33 AM

picked up a copy of Trinity Session. I wasn't impressed at all. Need direction to a better sample.

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 09:18 AM

Try Caution Horses. Or Black-eyed Man. But you may not like the Junkies, they have an odd, deliberate, careful, style--as though they were playing in a mine field. Not everyone appreciates it.

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: Kim C
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 09:46 AM

I never liked them. They put me to sleep.

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 10:05 AM

Well, that's the stuff I like, I liked much less when they got bouncier. I think they evoke a psycology, a tense wariness of unspecified internal dangers, that not everyone can relate to--yall probably aren't messed-up enough. Maybe someday.

But I hated Mining For Gold on the Trinity Session. Sometimes the style gets all ponderous and overblown, like a bad "art" film.

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 01:48 PM

I love 'em myself... especially Trinity Sessions...   GREAT make-out music!

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Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: mike the knife
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 03:54 PM

spare arrangements, emotive without pushing the "feeling button".
great music for an ugly night. Lou Reed once said something to the effect of that the CJ's version of "Sweet Jane" was truer to the spirit of the song than even the Velvet Underground version.

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 04:00 PM

I love the Trinity album... They have a unique style and sound just great to me....

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: Hester
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 05:22 PM

"Trinity Sessions" is what I used to play late at night when I lived in an apartment, sitting out on the concrete balcony looking over the city (just a couple blocks from the eponymous church). The sedate vibe made living in a shoe-box in the sky a bit more bearable.

I also once sat on blanket on a hillside and watched the Cowboy Junkies perform on an outdoor stage under a moonlit sky. Magic.

Cheers, Hester ... who now lives in a brick house and likes to blast Nick Lowe's "Rose of England" as loud as possible

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: van lingle
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 08:20 PM

I like Trinity Sessions and Black Eyed Man and some of Caution Horses but I think Pale Sun, Crescent Moon was some kind of a peak for them. A really great recording all the way through with a more "produced" feeling about it than Trinity Sessions that really displays Michael Timmins songwriting.vl

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: GUEST,Geordie
Date: 12 Nov 02 - 07:52 AM

I love all of the Junkies stuff..but I still think Trinity is the very best.. a great album.

Subject: RE: Review: cowboy junkies
From: Malachy
Date: 12 Nov 02 - 06:24 PM

I love the CJs'. Sun Comes up..It's Tuesday Morning is my favourite song but Lay it Down has got to be my favourite CD, have spent many a night with a few beers and just drifted away...Wonderful!!!
Malachy.