Hi Everyone, we are heading to England tonight and our tour starts in Bath on Tuesday night (April 28). We’ll be playing all over the country (including Scotland) so if you are interested in seeing us live, check out our Tour Page. We will only be a short drive, walk, bus or train ride away from your front door. We hope to see a bunch of you soon!
We have a new release happening next month, “Open to Beauty – Best of the 21st Century”, a collection of songs from our 21st century albums to date. This ‘Best Of’ set will revisit selected tracks from albums Open, One Soul Now, Early 21st Century Blues, At The End of Paths Taken, Renmin Park, Demons, Sing In My Meadow, The Wilderness, All That Reckoning, Songs of the Recollection, and Such Ferocious Beauty. If you have missed some of these albums along the way (who can keep up!) then this might be a good way to ease your way deeper into our catalogue.
We are now 25 years into this century, the beginning of which saw us leave the world of major labels and return to making music as an independent band. We figured this was as good a time as any to look back, reassess, and reflect on the music that we have recorded over these past two and a half decades and, hence, “Open to Beauty – Best of the 21st Century.”
It’s a beautiful package (designed by brother Pete), available as a triple vinyl album or as a 2 cd set, and you can pre-order it now. Enjoy!
Disc 1
A1 Dragging Hooks
A2 I’m So Open
A3 Small Swift Birds
A4 He Will Call You Baby
B1 Notes Falling Slow
B2 Why This One
B3 License To Kill
B4 Blue Eyed Saviour
B5 My Little Basquiat
Disc 2
C1 Still Lost
C2 Follower 2
C3 A Few Bags of Grain
C4 Renmin Park
D1 Wrong Piano
D2 Continental Drift
D3 Late Night Radio
D4 Angels In The Wilderness
Disc 3
E1 Fuck, I Hate The Cold
E2 Staring Man
E3 Sing Me A Song
E4 The Things We Do To Each Other
E5 Missing Children
F1 All That Reckoning (Part 1)
F2 Five Years
F3 What I Lost
F4 Hard To Build, Easy To Break
F5 Circe and Penelope
We are heading to the mid-West this coming week in search of a few early signs of Spring. We’ll be in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We hope to see a lot of you out there. Please check out the Tour page for all the show and ticket details.
We are getting on a plane (a few planes actually) tomorrow and heading to the other side of the earth. Our New Zealand/Australian Tour starts on November 4 in Auckland and takes us all over New Zealand and Australia ending in Melbourne on November 23. This is the final phase of our 40th Anniversary Tour. We’ll be reaching into our catalogue and playing songs that stretch as far back as our first album, Whites Off Earth Now!!, all the way through to our latest, More Acoustic Junk, with a healthy dose of Trinity Session and whatever else inspires us that night. We are excited about getting down there and playing for you. We hope that you will be able to join us somewhere along the journey.
All of the show and ticket info can be found on the Tour Page. We hope to see you soon!
Here in the northeast we can feel another summer slipping away. So it’s time to warm up the tubes and get the fingers moving. Next week we’ll be continuing our 40th Anniversary Tour and visiting our fellow Northeasterners, starting in Ithaca on Sept 17 and then moving on to shows in NY, CT, DE, MA, NH and RI including a special show in Boston on Sept 25 at the beautiful Shubert Theatre. We’ll be digging deep into our catalogue at all of these shows and pulling out a surprise or two. You can check out all the ticket and show info on the Tour page. We hope to see you out there.
We are heading back out on the road this week. We’ll be in Washington DC, Annapolis and Charlottesville. All of the shows are sold out but check in with the venue on the day of the show when tickets that have been held back for various reasons are often released. Also, in celebration of Record Store Day on April 12th, we will be releasing “More Acoustic Junk”, a Record Store Day exclusive that features five brand new acoustic recordings along with five tracks from our original Acoustic Junk album. Click here to look for participating record stores in your area.
And….tickets for our June shows out West have gone on sale….get all the info on our Tour Page. We hope to see you out there somewhere.
Our 1986 debut album ‘Whites Off Earth Now!!’ is now available on limited edition red vinyl, 180g audiophile black vinyl & CD. Captured live to tape using a single ambisonic microphone, this collection of blues & rock covers along with our first original recording ‘Take Me’ introduced our signature sound to the world (or at least to the the few hundred people that originally bought the album).
Cut at half-speed by John Webber at Air Studios this edition brings out every nuance of the original recordings. Featuring standout tracks like “Shining Moon” and “Baby Please Don’t Go,” Whites Off Earth Now!! is where our journey began.
You can order your copy here.
We are back on the road this week and heading to Western Canada with several dates throughout Alberta and British Columbia. We’ll also be making a quick stop at the Winnipeg Folk Festival this weekend. You can check out all the specific on the Tour Page. We hope to see may of you out there.
We are back on the road this week and most of our travels on this leg bring us to the South East of the USA. It’s been awhile since we have been down in those parts so please check out the Tour Page to see if we are coming close to your front door. Also, on May 9th, Margo, Jeff and Mike will be doing an Acoustic Trio set as part of London, Ontario’s London City of Music Expo. Click here for the ticket info. We hope to see some of you out there in the coming few weeks.
Throughout the Spring of 2021 Margo and Michael got together in a converted barn located in Eugenia Falls, Ontario just a few miles from Margo’s home in the Beaver Valley. During the day Michael would write and in the evening Margo would drop by and sing. This was the initial phase of developing the songs that would eventually make up the album Such Ferocious Beauty. The Barn Demos – CD and Writing Notebook is a replica of the notebook that Michael used to jot down his lyric and music ideas as he built the songs and an eight song CD of unreleased acoustic recordings that Michael and Margo made during the process, and which includes two unused songs from the sessions. This is a special limited edition package for those who enjoy a peak behind the curtain. It is only available in our web store.
To order the Barn Demos: https://cowboyjunkies.com/merch/
Here is a video of Margo and Michael performing “Maybe It’s Your Heart”, one of the unreleased songs that you will find on The Barn Demos CD:
