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Patti Smith/Dave Eggers at LA Book Festival
This is from our friend Ron Wells, our LA “correspondent”…. a very thoughtful piece on the trans-formative power of art. We know spring is here when the LA Times Book Festival, now in its 16th year, arrives at the end of April. With over 300 authors and 150,000 attendees over a two day day period, […]
Sing In My Meadow, volume 3 – Jeff Bird
I said in an earlier blog that one of the aspects of the band that we wanted to capture with Volume 3 was the psychedelic, acid-blues vibe that is a large part of our live show. And a large part of that side of our sound is Jeff Bird’s manic wailing and gnashing. Jeff joined […]
Relix: Demons review
Another excellent review, please spread the word: by Glenn BurnSilver Cowboy Junkies: Demons Latent The second installment of Cowboy Junkies’ Nomad series, Demons delves into the catalog of the late singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt. The resulting 11 tracks are intense, soulful, joyous, uplifting and heartbreakingly sad. The band excels here, pulling out the nuance in Chesnutt’s […]
John Bottomley 1960 – 2011
We received some sad news this week. John Bottomley, a long time friend of the band, unexpectedly died near his home in Brakendale, BC. We met John in the early 90’s and had the pleasure of releasing John’s brilliant album Library Of The Sun on Latent. He was an inspired songwriter, singer and performer. I […]
Jambase.com Demons review and interview
Cowboy Junkies By: Dennis Cook Cowboy Junkies In their 25 years together the Cowboy Junkies have shown an unerring knack for crawling inside the music of others. While their originals merge soulful, familial warmth with jet black eddies, they’ve also shown a voluminous appetite for quality material by Neil Young, Grateful Dead, Fred Eaglesmith, Lou […]
Popmatters review of Demons
Cowboy Junkies: Demons; The Nomad Series, Volume 2 By Bill Clifford 6 April 2011 There is little doubt that the forlorn songwriting and achingly beautiful yet at the same time deeply discordant vocal tone of folk troubadour Vic Chesnutt is an acquired taste. He achieved his most wide-spread acclaim when he recorded and performed with […]
Wrestlemania XXVII – epilogue
Well, it was an epic night of fireworks, costumes, staging, choreography and physicality. Undertaker extended his streak to 19 – 0, despite the fact that he had to be carted from the ring on a stretcher; The Miz (my favourite…did you see him on Conan last week) beat John Cena to retain his title, in […]
Wrestlemania XXVII
I hope everyone has their pay-per-view paid for or their theater tickets for tonight’s epic bout at the Georgia Dome. It’s pretty darn exciting: The Rock returns; will Undertaker extend his Wrestlemania streak to 19-0 vs HHH (our household is betting that Shawn Michaels gets involved in some manner); will Michael Cole get his sneering […]
Sing In My Meadow, volume 3 – songwriting demos
When I started to work on the songs for Sing In My Meadow my initial ambition was to write four or five new songs, add a few covers to the mix and then re-work and re-energize a few songs from our catalogue with the spirit and attack that we use on a song like Hunted. […]
Demons International Press
More nice things have been written about Demons…..pass along the word if you don’t mind…… ********* “Vic Chesnutt’s…bare, bluesy, abrasive songs…perfectly realized here by the spooky, elegant sound of the Cowboy Junkies. . . .” 4 stars, MOJO “ … one of the most defining albums from the Cowboy Junkies to date. antiMusic “I wasn’t […]