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The Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Revisited

 
 
Eek! A Freek!
18:35 / 28.08.08
Way back in '87, The Cowboy Junkies recorded their Masterpiece, The Trinity Sessions, in one day around a single microphone at Trinity Church in downtown Toronto and produced an exqusite album of audiophile quality. Thanks to their cover of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane" they became known around the world.

20 years and 17 albums later they went back to Trinity with friends Natalie Merchant, Vic Chestnutt, and Ryan Adams to make a DVD and new recording of this amazing classic.

Margo's voice is heroin. The instrumentation is Jazz and Blues fucking to spawn some tripped-out Country. Altogether it's pure gold that could set the scene for a deep Texas honkey-tonk bar or the soundtrack for a David Lynch film.

Any Cowboy Junkies fans here in the 'lith?
 
 
grant
01:32 / 29.08.08
I like Cowboy Junkies OK (especially the weirder blues stuff on Hands Off Earth Now), but this sounds like a Very Strange Plan.

Are they re-recording the songs, or just doing remixes with new talent? I think this'd make more sense as a live album or something. Even then, why not something new?
 
 
doctorbeck
09:18 / 29.08.08
the trinity lp was the soundtrack to some blissed out nights of dixie narco for me back in the late 80s, lovely stuff

must be honest apart from another live lp 10 years or so ago i've not heard anything else by them.

any recommendations?
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
18:44 / 27.11.08
Hmmmmm. Grant, I dunno about the States, but here in Canada their first Album is "Whites off Earth Now" not "Hands"...

That's a great album, btw.

Trinity Revisited is just that: They went back to Trinity Church in Toronto and re-recorded the entire album in one day again, this time with guests. The first time around was a masterpiece, especially considering they used a single mic which they sat around...

Doctorbeck: They have a dozen albums or so, and to be honest, I'm only familiar with a handful, but I reccomend them all:

Whites Off Earth Now
The Trinity Sessions
The Caution Horses
Lay it Down
Black Eyed Man
Pale Sun Crescent Moon
One Soul Now
Trinity revisited

All have that dreamy haunting groove that comes from Margo's ever so sultry voice and her brother Michael's guitar.
 
 
grant
15:28 / 01.12.08
Whites!

I was doing it from memory.
 
  
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