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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 […]
Sing In My Meadow, volume 3 – Hunted
A few days after we returned from New York we re-convened at The Clubhouse to do some more wailing and gnashing. A few hours was all it took to finish off the recording. We’re going to give the tracks a rest and then revisit them in a few weeks to decide whether we need to […]
Jeff Bird 1000 fiddle tunes
Jeff Bird explores his inner fractal nature…..
Demons Canadian Press reaction
The press reaction to Demons has been pretty spectacular so far; we couldn’t have hoped for a better reception. Here is a skewed sampling of some of the comments from the Canadian pundits: “The result is a celebration of both the Junkies and Chesnutt and one of the year’s best albums.” 4.5 Stars, The National […]
Tim Gibbons – an Introduction (Medicine Girl)
For the past couple of years I’ve been doing some recording with Hamilton based singer/songwriter Tim Gibbons, who I was introduced to by Tom Wilson (aka Lee Harvey Osmond). He dropped in to our studio one day with just his banjo and sang six or seven songs and I was hooked. There is naturalness to […]
Tour Diary – New York City (Feb 7 – 10, 2011)
Well that was quite the four days. There is no question that this is the best city in the world. I know that it’s a boring choice but it is what it is. Sometimes you just got to give it up and strive for #2. We started the week off with two sold out shows […]
Jimmy Fallon – Wrong Piano
Here’s our performance of “Wrong Piano” on Jimmy Fallon last night, just in case you missed us and here’s a link to our performance of “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” which we played after the credits rolled. And here’s a link to the show in its entirety. Enjoy.
Sing In My Meadow, volume 3 – Introduction
We started work on Sing In My Meadow, Volume 3 last Friday night. The live band, live-off-the–floor of our studio. Nasty and dirty and disturbing the cold winter night’s peace. The idea for volume 3 is to create an album of music based around the psychedelic, blues inspired forays that we are so fond of […]