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Demons, volume 2 – an Introduction
Our brief journey with Vic began in the mid-1990’s when we stumbled upon his album, West Of Rome. We had just begun work on the collection of songs that would become Lay It Down and we decided to throw the title track of Vic’s album into the mix. We worked on the song for weeks […]
Happy Birthday Bruce
From our good friend Ron Wells… On September 23, 1949, there was a Devil in the swamps of Jersey, there was a darkness on the edge of town. People were burned by angels who sold wings of lead. When out of nowhere a holy man whispered, “Hold on brothers, there’s a light up ahead.” At […]
Renmin Park, volume 1 – Renmin Park
One of the most important songs on the album is Renmin Park: it is the title track as well as the song that opens and closes the album. The song sets up the metaphorical love story that is the album. Initially my idea was to actually write a song cycle that dealt with the two […]
LIVE!
We’ve added some new music to the Music Catalogue section of our website. It’s a limited edition four song EP called LIVE!. It was originally released by BMG in 1992. It’s a very nice little document of one of our favourite tours: the Black Eyed Man tour that we did with John Prine. The EP […]
Renmin Park, volume 1 – Sir Francis Bacon At The Net
(this blog was posted earlier on the NPR All Songs Considered website.) The roots of this song are quite varied and complicated. It started as a musical structure based around the field recording that you hear, which is of two men playing badminton in Renmin Park. Every Tuesday and Thursday I would go to the […]
September / October Tour Dates
We’ll be in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California in late September and early October. Come out and say hello to us in Bellingham, Edmonds and Covington, WA; Vancouver, BC; Bend, Portland and Grants Pass, OR; and Napa and San Francisco, CA.
Renmin Park, volume 1 – Cicadas
On June 4th 1989 we were touring the west coast of the United States, when word escaped from China about the massacre in Tiananmen Square. The world had been watching, there had been this sparkle of hope shining from a country that had been dark to us for so many years. And then it ended […]
Renmin Park, volume 1 – You’ve Got To Get A Good Heart
I can’t really give a definitive idea on what this song is “about” when I was developing the melody for it I came up with the line “you’ve got to get a good heart” I had always intended to replace the line with something else, but after a while the line just felt right. My […]
Renmin Park, volume 1 – Stranger Here
Some songs aren’t really “about” any one thing. Sometimes a song will start off heading in one direction, come to a fork in the path, take the unexpected turn, double back on itself, and then head off through the brush and blaze a completely new trail. Sometimes you write a song or start to write […]
Magnet guest editor
We will be guest editing Magnet on-line this week. To check out our posts as the week progresses you can got to: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/category/guest-editor/ In the meantime there is currently a Q&A with Margo posted at: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2010/08/23/qa-with-cowboy-junkies-margo-timmins/