Too often I find Cowboy Junkies fans all too willing to reduce the band to that seminal breakthrough album, The Trinity Session. It gets treated with a sanctity it deserves, but that should apply to the rest of the Junkies' catalogue as well. The band have been recording for more than 20 years.
Lets hear it for the ladies Whether by design or by accident, the ladies dominate the new releases this week, as three very high profile female superstars release much-anticipated new albums.Janet Jackson -- who apparently wants to be called just "Janet" these days -- releases her first post Nipplegate CD Discipline. The record is said to be a broad mix of innocent
Armed with their own songs and a handful of well-selected covers, Margo Timmins, her songwriting brother and their fellow bandmates gathered around a single microphone in a small Toronto church and pushed "record."
Twenty years later, the Cowboy Junkies' album "The Trinity Session" is looked upon as a seminal record that helped define the alt-country movement and quietly influenced a generation of musicians.
"Once Only, With Feeling" by Jeff Gordinier, Spin. Calling it the J.D. Salinger Principle, he argues that artists are better off stopping after one or two great albums.
Music fans will have opportunities to enjoy a pair of concerts on back-to-back nights, Friday and Saturday, March 7-8 as Martin Arthur hosts Fran Snyder for a house concert, and Shaky Tree Coffee clears its stage for Mat d.
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