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New Cowboy Junkies- Wow

I just picked up the new Cowboy Junkies disc, "Early 21st Century Blues" and it's fantastic! It's the first Junkies album I've picked up since "The Trinity Sessions" but the track list on this looked cool, lots of interesting covers, so I said what the heck. Boy am I glad I did! There's a Dylan tune, two Springsteen tunes, one George Harrison, and my favorite Richie Havens "Handouts In The Rain". They even do a U2 tune, "One"! It's available pretty much everywhere, check it out.
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ozfly
887 posts
 
Thanks for the tip. I'm a CJ junkie so I'm looking forward to the new disc!
jax2
3,031 posts
 
Big fan! Thanks Jond. I'll pick the new one up soon. Saw them in concert locally and would highly recommend the experience. I think they did an Austin City Limits concert for PBS as well that's worth looking for. I'm with Dave on having bought many of their other albums only to be compelled to listen to a handful of those songs, whereas Trinity Sessions never fails to hold me start to finish.

A couple of, perhaps lesser known, recommendations if you like the Cowboy Junkies, both highlighed with wonderful female vocals and intelligent lyrics:

Trespasser's William (small San Francisco based band with two albums - both are good, but I prefer "Anchor")

Over the Rhine - Highly underrated band...their album, "Ohio" is wonderful!

Marco
nickt
172 posts
 
Jond,
Besides the wonderful songs, how is the recording? Give me a scale between 1 and 5 if you could. Thanks.
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jond OP
5,807 posts
 
Nickt,
The recording quality seems excellent, I'd give it a 4 out of 5.
nickt
172 posts
 
Thanks Jond. I will go buy it this weekend. I had your speakers before. If you add a sub to them, you would thank me later. I would try a Rel first.
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