As you have probably already assumed, we have had to postpone our upcoming New Zealand/Australian Tour. We are already working with our promoter and the venues to reschedule, so please hold on to your tickets and we will be announcing the new dates very soon. Your tickets will be honoured at the rescheduled shows. Our plan is to get down there very early in 2021, to escape our winter and catch some of your sunshine. We are, of course, so disappointed. But it’s been twenty years since we’ve been down there so adding on one more year will just make our reunion that much sweeter!. Please keep safe and we’ll be back in touch soon with all of the new show info.
One of our most cherished band memories is of our 1992 co-headlining tour of the US with John Prine and company. It was the largest tour we had ever mounted, with 11 musicians, 16 crew, three buses and a tractor trailer. We played some of the most beautiful halls in America, had too many late nights, consumed too much alcohol, laughed and laughed and laughed, the music was stellar and the love in those rooms, amplified by John’s presence, was as intense as we had ever experienced. John taught us to enjoy ourselves on stage, to not shy away from “entertaining” the audience, to feel worthy of the love and above all else to make sure to return it in full. I remember one very drunken night in Chicago at a post-show celebration asking John, between tequila shots, how he was able to play, night after night, that core group of songs that he had become most associated with (Hello In There, Sam Stone, Angel From Montgomery, etc). And how was he able to still invest them with so much vitality and sincerity. He said, “those songs aren’t mine anymore, they’re theirs, I just sing them”… and we took another shot and it all became so clear. Thank you for the love John…we will all miss you so much.
Weird
times out there, eh? We hope you and your loved ones are all safe and
secure and actively listening to the advice of your public health
officials…it’s the only way that we can all get through this
thing…and we are all in this
thing
together, whether we like it or not.
In the meantime, we have some new music for you to listen to and hopefully provide you with a small distraction. It’s a set of songs that we’ve been working on for the past year and which we were set to launch when our worlds turned upside down. The plan was to release a very limited edition, audiophile double-album made up of a re-mastered, re-cut version of All That Reckoning along with a second disc that contains the new music, Ghosts. We have the test pressings and they sound beautiful. But, as you all know, logistics are difficult right now, so we are delaying the release of the vinyl (there will be no CD) until the world returns to something resembling normal.
In
the meantime we have decided to release the new music on streaming
sites everywhere. It’s an intense set of songs, but that’s probably
not a surprise to you….read on if you are interested in the genesis
of Ghosts.
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In
July of 2018 we released our album All
That Reckoning.
Two months later our mother died and we realized that there was more
reckoning still to come. Ghosts
is the result of that realization; a suite of songs revolving around
grief, pain, fear, anxiety, beauty; a set of songs examining the
complexity of emotions that subsume us after losing a parent. We were
writing and creating these songs while we were touring ATR and as
they took shape it became clear to us that they belonged as part of,
or at least as an addendum to, the songs that make up All That
Reckoning. They deal with the ultimate reckoning, the reckoning that
comes with the death of a loved one and the reassessing that one goes
through as one tries to process such a loss.
The concept behind this project was to present it as a two disc vinyl-album set. All That Reckoning and Ghosts work best as two bodies of work, reflecting off of each other, but you know what they say about the best laid plans of men….so in the meantime enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. You can stream Ghosts here (there are more streaming sites being added daily):
As you have probably already surmised our shows in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo that were scheduled for the first week of April have been postponed. We are busily trying to reschedule them for sometime in the Fall. So hold on to your tickets, they will be honoured for the new dates. Stay safe. Stay inside. Be kind. Wash your hands…and we’ll hopefully see you soon.
We will be live-streaming our show tonight from the Appel Room in New York City. It’s all part of the Lincoln Centers American Songbook Series. The show starts at 8:30….here’s the link: livefromlincolncenter.org. Enjoy!
If it’s The Year Of The Rat, we must be back on the road. We have two sold out shows at The Birchmere tonight (Jan 29th) and tomorrow (Jan 30th) and then we’ll be in NYC as part of the Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series for a sold out show at the Appel Room and then back to Collingswood New Jersey for a show at The Scottish Rite Auditorium (Feb 1st….there are still tickets available for this one!!). We will also be live-streaming the show from NYC on Friday (Jan 31st). It will be on our FB page or you can stream it from livefromlincolncenter.org. We hope to see you out there.
Summer is over and we are back on the road. We are playing a few shows in the Boston area this weekend (Oct 10 – 13), followed by a few scattered shows in October throughout Southern Ontario and then back down to the NY/NJ/CT area in November. All of the dates and ticket info can be found on the Tour Page. If you are a social media person make sure that you follow us on Facebook and Instagram to get a look inside the tour. We hope to see you out there, come up and say hello!
We are heading to Europe next week to enjoy the beautiful Summer weather (eek!!) and while we are there we are planning to play a bunch of shows in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, England and Scotland. All of the dates and ticket info are on our Tour Page. We hope to see a bunch of you over there…make sure to come up and say hello.
We are heading to California next week and will be playing eleven shows throughout the State starting in Sacramento, then heading to the San Francisco area, down the coast through Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara and in to the San Diego area and ending up in LA. Please check out our Tour Page for all the ticket and show info. We hope to see a lot of you out there, make sure to come up and say hello!
We are heading west next week to Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago. The Minneapolis and Chicago shows are sold out but there are some tickets left for Milwaukee, so if you are in the area, come on out. We hope to see you soon. https://cowboyjunkies.wpengine.com/tour/
