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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 […]
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 […]