Cowboy Junkies
Cowboy Junkies
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- The Basics
The Cowboy Junkies were chillin’ when chillin’ wasn’t cool. In fact, they were chillin’ before people even called chillin’ chillin’. Over the last quarter century, the band’s set the platinum — no, make that multi-platinum — standard for laid-back, no-fuss loveliness. When the writer himself — the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed — declares that the heavy-lidded CJ cover of “Sweet Jane” is "the best and most authentic version I have ever heard,” well, who are we to argue? Despite their well-deserved rep, the band doesn’t wander entirely through life in a moody fog, as the alt-poppy spun-sugar confection of “Anniversary Song” proves. And with a fistful of fuzz and a foreigner’s eyes, their China-by-way-of-Canada road warrior travelogue, “Stranger Here,” breaks new ice in the Junkies’ musical horizons.
In Next Steps, we’ll hear other people putting words in Timmins & Co.’s mouths, as the band covers the classics . . . from country to rock.$14.16 The Basics
Name Time Price 1 Sweet Jane 3:34 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Anniversary Song 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 A Common Disaster 3:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) 4:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Misguided Angel 4:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Miles From Our Home 4:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning 3:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 One 5:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 I'm so Open 4:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Flirted With You All My Life 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 The Stars of Our Stars 4:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Southern Rain 4:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Small Swift Birds 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Angel Mine 4:00 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 14 Songs - Next Steps
Make no mistake, the Cowboy Junkies are no slouch with the pen themselves, but they have an uncanny ability to burrow into other folks’ greatest songs and extract their cold, cold heart. With a chanson-like accordion calling up images of an absinthe cafe on the banks of the Seine and a bassline that saunters like an overpriced escort, the band transforms Patsy Cline’s “Walking After Midnight” into a cruise down the wild side of the soul. The emotional landscape of their cover of Hank Williams’ “I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry” is barren as the moon’s dark side, a watercolor wash of indigo pigment mixed with bourbon and tears. And their gloss on fellow Canadian Neil Young’s “Powderfinger” pulls the song from its classic-rock guitar-hero showcase and turns it loose in the ruins of an abandoned building slated for destruction.
In Deep Cuts, the Junkies pay tribute to another legendary Canuck, hit the road, and get the blues.$14.85 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man Cowboy Junkies & John Prine 3:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Stranger Here Cowboy Junkies 3:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel Cowboy Junkies 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Cowboy Junkies Lament Cowboy Junkies 3:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 My Wild Child Cowboy Junkies 3:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Powderfinger Cowboy Junkies 5:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 This Street, That Man, This Life Cowboy Junkies 3:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Cowboy Junkies 5:25 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Wrong Piano Cowboy Junkies 4:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Ring On the Sill Cowboy Junkies 4:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Come Calling (Her Song) Cowboy Junkies 5:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Walking After Midnight Cowboy Junkies 6:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Good Friday Cowboy Junkies 4:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Little Dark Heart Cowboy Junkies 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 The Post Cowboy Junkies 4:37 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 15 Songs - Deep Cuts
In our Deep Cuts, we’ve got something old, something fairly new, a couple of borrowed songs, and a track from Early 21st Century Blues . We’ll kick it off with a little Canadiana that doesn’t technically appear on any Cowboy Junkies album, as they expose their folky roots on a lo-fi, alt-rock cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel.” South of the border, they pick up Bruce Springsteen’s war-weary veteran from “Brothers Under the Bridge” and take him for a lift out of the city and up to the high desert on a clear, cold, starry night. And just to keep their fans and critics guessing, they jump in the wayback machine for a little Haight-Ashbury hippie homage to the likes of Jefferson Airplane and Joy of Cooking in “New Dawn Coming.”
$14.85 Deep Cuts
Name Time Price 1 To Live Is to Fly 4:53 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Remnin Park 3:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Seven Years 4:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Blue Guitar 6:09 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Supernatural 3:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Murder, Tonight, In the Trailer Park 4:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 License to Kill 4:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Dreaming My Dreams With You 4:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 One Soul Now 4:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Rock and Bird 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Close My Eyes 4:20 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 New Dawn Coming 4:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Brothers Under the Bridge 3:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 The Way I Feel 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 The Slide 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 15 Songs - Complete Set
Where else to go for the ultimate in chillout than the Great White North, the Cowboy Junkies’ frozen home? Long winter nights and northern lights are said to lend themselves to darker and deeper thoughts, and the Timminses and friends translate their languid musings into a sonic space with a bare-bones minimum of digital trickery. Think Pentangle meets Mazzy Star somewhere out on the Canadian prairie, and you get the picture. Dreamy, airy, ethereal, yet still somehow rooted, the Cowboy Junkies’ sound is a cumulus cloud of musical wonder, drifting lazily in stasis between Earth and the sky. And for nearly a quarter-century now, they’ve owned that late-night, last-call space like no band ever has . . . or possibly ever will.
$43.86 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 Sweet Jane Cowboy Junkies 3:34 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Anniversary Song Cowboy Junkies 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 A Common Disaster Cowboy Junkies 3:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) Cowboy Junkies 4:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Misguided Angel Cowboy Junkies 4:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Miles From Our Home Cowboy Junkies 4:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning Cowboy Junkies 3:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 One Cowboy Junkies 5:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 I'm so Open Cowboy Junkies 4:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Flirted With You All My Life Cowboy Junkies 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 The Stars of Our Stars Cowboy Junkies 4:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Southern Rain Cowboy Junkies 4:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Small Swift Birds Cowboy Junkies 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Angel Mine Cowboy Junkies 4:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man Cowboy Junkies & John Prine 3:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Stranger Here Cowboy Junkies 3:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel Cowboy Junkies 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 Cowboy Junkies Lament Cowboy Junkies 3:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 My Wild Child Cowboy Junkies 3:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Powderfinger Cowboy Junkies 5:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 This Street, That Man, This Life Cowboy Junkies 3:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Cowboy Junkies 5:25 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Wrong Piano Cowboy Junkies 4:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Ring On the Sill Cowboy Junkies 4:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 Come Calling (Her Song) Cowboy Junkies 5:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 26 Walking After Midnight Cowboy Junkies 6:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 27 Good Friday Cowboy Junkies 4:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 28 Little Dark Heart Cowboy Junkies 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 29 The Post Cowboy Junkies 4:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 30 To Live Is to Fly Cowboy Junkies 4:53 $0.99 View In iTunes 31 Remnin Park Cowboy Junkies 3:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 32 Seven Years Cowboy Junkies 4:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 33 Blue Guitar Cowboy Junkies 6:09 $0.99 View In iTunes 34 Supernatural Cowboy Junkies 3:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 35 Murder, Tonight, In the Trailer Park Cowboy Junkies 4:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 36 License to Kill Cowboy Junkies 4:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 37 Dreaming My Dreams With You Cowboy Junkies 4:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 38 One Soul Now Cowboy Junkies 4:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 39 Rock and Bird Cowboy Junkies 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 40 Close My Eyes Cowboy Junkies 4:20 $0.99 View In iTunes 41 New Dawn Coming Cowboy Junkies 4:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 42 Brothers Under the Bridge Cowboy Junkies 3:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 43 The Way I Feel Cowboy Junkies 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 44 The Slide Cowboy Junkies 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 44 Songs
Customer Reviews
This band oozes talent!
What can be said about the talents of this band that hasn't already been said? A great collection of their work.
