Cowboy Junkies
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| Cowboy Junkies | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin |  Toronto, Canada |
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| Genre(s) | Rock, Alternative Rock | |
| Years active | 1985 - present | |
| Label(s) | RCA, Geffen, Latent, Zoë | |
| Website | http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/ | |
| Members | ||
| Michael Timmins Alan Anton Peter Timmins Margo Timmins |
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Cowboy Junkies is a Canadian country music and alternative rock band, formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family. Another sibling, Cali, rose to fame as an actress on Ryan's Hope. (The Timmins siblings are descendants of Noah Timmins, a mining prospector who founded the Ontario city of Timmins.)
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[edit] History
Cowboy Junkies formed in Toronto in 1985. The band's name was simply a random choice as they approached their first ever gig, but it has come to perfectly represent their sound (although some sources credit Townes Van Zandt's song "Cowboy Junkies Lament" as the source of the band's name, that song was written especially for Cowboy Junkies several years after they coined the name ).
The Trinity Session is perhaps their best known album, recorded live in a single day on a single microphone in a church in Toronto. This album also included cover version of The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" based on the 1969 Live album version rather than the studio version from Loaded. The single featured in the film Natural Born Killers.
None of the band's subsequent albums have been hits outside of Canada, although the band has maintained a dedicated following and have continued to have chart hits in their native country. Following their 1998 album Miles from Our Home, Cowboy Junkies agreed to leave Geffen Records. They have continued to release albums on their own independent label, Latent Recordings, with distribution through other labels such as Rounder in the USA and Cooking Vinyl in the UK.
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Whites Off Earth Now!!, 1986
- The Trinity Session, 1988
- Pump Up the Volume Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1990 (Song "Me and the Devil Blues")
- The Caution Horses, 1990
- Black Eyed Man, 1992
- Pale Sun Crescent Moon, 1993
- 200 More Miles: Live Performances 1985-1994, 1995
- Lay It Down, 1996
- Studio: Selected Studio Recordings 1986-1995, 1996
- Miles from Our Home, 1998
- Rarities, B Sides and Slow, Sad Waltzes, 1999
- Waltz Across America, 2000
- Open, 2001
- BBC Radio One Sessions, 2002
- Open Road CD/DVD, 2002
- In the Time Before Llamas, 2003
- One Soul Now, 2004
- Early 21st Century Blues, 2005
- Whites Off Earth Now!!, 2006 (Mobile Fidelity SACD reissue)
- At the End of Paths Taken, 2007
RCA Records, the band's label from 1988 to 1996, has also released two best-of albums. These were compiled without the band's approval or authorization, and Internet fansites dedicated to the band usually recommend that fans purchase Waltz Across America instead:
[edit] Singles
- 1988 "Sweet Jane"
- 1990 "Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning"
- 1992 "Murder, Tonight, In the Trailer..."
- 1993 "Anniversary Song"
- 1994 "Sweet Jane" (re-issue)
- 1996 "A Common Disaster"
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official web site
- Cowboy Junkies at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Cowboy Junkies live concert recordings at Archive.org
- 4 The Llamas also features live concert recordings to download.
- Cowboy Junkies Site, Unoffical (Yet Complete)
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