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August 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Cowboy Junkies: All That Reckoning

Cowboy Junkies All That Reckoning Latent Records For over 30 years now the Cowboy Junkies has been allowing its music to waft past, set to permanent slow-burn, they’re like an alt-folk Crazy Horse. Theirs is a deceptively angry music too, that soft coo of Margo Timmins’ voice could, so often, be telling you the most sweet and beautiful […]

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August 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Cowboy Junkies to Play Three NZ Shows (May, 2020)

The Cowboy Junkies will play their first New Zealand shows in 20 years next May. Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. AUCKLAND BRUCE MASON CENTRE Friday May 1 WELLINGTON OPERA HOUSE Saturday May 2 CHRISTCHURCH ISAAC THEATRE Sunday May 3 It’s funny how things work out – right? I was just playing The Caution Horses a couple of nights ago – one of their best. […]

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July 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Cowboy Junkies: The Kennedy Suite

The Cowboy Junkies The Kennedy Suite Razor & Tie Maybe it took a bunch of soft-candle/slow-burn Canadians to create the perfect – poignant – song-cycle in honour of JFK and the 50th Anniversary of his assassination. Maybe. But you never would have guessed that ahead of time. And you never would have guessed that this […]

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February 5, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1638

Cowboy Junkies, The Caution Horses (1990) Okay, so The Trinity Session is the one – definitely. And that was my introduction to Cowboy Junkies and it was the band’s breakthrough. Everyone seemed to love that cover of Sweet Jane and, yeah, it’s pretty sweet – but I prefer the band’s cover of Neil Young’s Powderfinger. […]