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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Cowboy Junkies ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: Early 21st Century Blues ▀ ░
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▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Catnr........: COOKCD352 ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
▓█▓▌ URL..........: http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/ ▓░ ███▓▓[z0o]░
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▓████▓▌ 01. License to Kill 04:47 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Two Soldiers 04:03 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. December Skies 05:19 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. This World Dreams of 05:08 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Brothers Under the Bridge 04:00 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. You're Missing 04:09 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Handouts in the Rain 08:27 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Isn't it A Pity 05:52 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. No More 05:01 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. I Don't Want to Be A Soldier 07:30 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. One 05:11 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Monday 1st August sees the release of the Cowboy ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Junkies album, "Early 21st Century Blues". Recorded ▓▌
▓████▓▌ during February and March 2005, the album features ▓▌
▓████▓▌ two Michael Timmins songs, alongside ▓▌
▓████▓▌ interpretations of tracks by the likes of U2, Bob ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, George Harrison, Richie ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Havens and John Lennon, plus two traditional ▓▌
▓████▓▌ numbers. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Explains the band, "By the middle of this past ▓▌
▓████▓▌ February (2005), we had been off the road for a few ▓▌
▓████▓▌ months, winter had her claws dug in deep, and it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ seemed like a good time to get together and play ▓▌
▓████▓▌ some music. An invitation was extended to our older ▓▌
▓████▓▌ brother John to come and sit in with his guitar. We ▓▌
▓████▓▌ decided to give our gathering a context: we were ▓▌
▓████▓▌ all to bring along two or three songs, written by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ others, and the themes of the songs had to relate ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to war, violence, fear, greed, ignorance, loss àWe ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hoped to reach a critical mass of material that ▓▌
▓████▓▌ would reach out and touch a couple of hearts and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ souls. Our goal was to create our own small ▓▌
▓████▓▌ document of hope. Over the course of five days we ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sat in The Clubhouse and interpreted the words and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ melodies of others. We let the tape run while we ▓▌
▓████▓▌ played and did our best to channel those early 21st ▓▌
▓████▓▌ century blues à" ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Early 21st Century Blues" features the following ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guest musicians: John Timmins (guitar, banjo), Jeff ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Bird (electric mando), Jaro Czerwinec (accordion), ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Rebel (vocal and lyrics on I Don't Want To Be A ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Soldier), Bob Egan (pedal steel), Anne Bourne ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (cello). ▓▌
▓████▓▌ About the songs : ▓▌
▓████▓▌ License To Kill (Bob Dylan): For some reason I've ▓▌
▓████▓▌ always loved this song. It wasn't until we started ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to work on it that I realized how beautiful the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ melody is and how profound, but deceptively simple, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is the lyric. Every time we played through a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ version someone would ask, "what do you think he ▓▌
▓████▓▌ means by this lineà.?". And a discussion would ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ensue. You can't ask anything more of a lyricà.and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that is why Bob is Bob. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Two Soldiers (traditional): This song was suggested ▓▌
▓████▓▌ by John. He had heard versions of it by Dylan and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ by Jerry Garcia and his circle of friends. I happen ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to have a very traditional version of it by Hazel ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Dickens and Alice Gerrard. The song's style fits ▓▌
▓████▓▌ perfectly with John's guitar playing. Pete and Al ▓▌
▓████▓▌ settled in to a characteristic Junkies groove and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ away we rode. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ December Skies (Michael Timmins): This is one of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the two original songs on the CD. It was written in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ October 2002 and recorded during the One Soul Now ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sessions. It was inspired by the news of the day ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and the Timothy Findley novel The Wars. If you have ▓▌
▓████▓▌ any doubt that "war-is-hell" then read this book. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ If you feel that war is a sane option to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ disagreements between nations then read this book. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ This World Dreams Of (Michael Timmins): This is the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ other original song on the album. This one was also ▓▌
▓████▓▌ written for One Soul Now. We never got a recording ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that we liked during the OSN sessions so we pulled ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the song out for this session, slowed it down, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ spaced it out and let it breathe. The line, "more ▓▌
▓████▓▌ things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of", is from a Tennyson poem called The Passing of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Arthur. I love the line because it is both hopeful ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and desperate at the same time. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Brothers Under The Bridge (Bruce Springsteen): ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Margo and I saw Springsteen during the Tom Joad ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tour. He was playing solo acoustic at Massey Hall ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in Toronto. It was a stunning performance, a night ▓▌
▓████▓▌ filled with memorable, inspiring moments. He played ▓▌
▓████▓▌ this song, which hadn't been released at the time ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and it has always stuck with me. I love the way ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that the lyric just ends without warningàmuch like ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the way the lives of veterans sometimes "end" ▓▌
▓████▓▌ without warningà.the battle that rages on inside ▓▌
▓████▓▌ can be so much more difficult to survive. I'm sure ▓▌
▓████▓▌ we'll be hearing plenty of stories about a whole ▓▌
▓████▓▌ new generation of brothers-under-bridges in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ coming years. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ You're Missing (Bruce Springsteen): Is there a more ▓▌
▓████▓▌ beautiful, delicate, pointed song about loss? ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Maybe, but I can't think of one ... ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Handouts In The Rain (Richie Havens): This song was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ introduced to me by Patty, my wife. She had heard ▓▌
▓████▓▌ it on a compilation put together by Paul Weller. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ She brought it to me and said, "I've found a song ▓▌
▓████▓▌ for your new record"à within a couple of verses it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ was pretty obvious that she was right. Our ▓▌
▓████▓▌ arrangement isn't nearly as complex as the original ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (too many weird chords, too much work). We paired ▓▌
▓████▓▌ it down to the essential and let Margo's voice and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Richie's words do all the work. It is a beautiful ▓▌
▓████▓▌ song, written by a truly gifted and, in some ways, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ under-appreciated artist. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Isn't It A Pity (George Harrison): We started ▓▌
▓████▓▌ performing this song last year on the Long Journey ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Home Tour. It was suggested by Margo and it, along ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with December Skies, was the inspiration for this ▓▌
▓████▓▌ collection of songs. The lyrics still ring true ▓▌
▓████▓▌ thirty years after they were written. And, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ unfortunately, they will, no doubt, ring true ▓▌
▓████▓▌ thirty years from now and then thirty years after ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that and so onà.human nature is a difficult and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ unfathomable beast. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ No More (traditional): We performed a version of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ this song at our very first gig back in 1985. We ▓▌
▓████▓▌ heard a version of an old field recording and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ decided that we could probably do a knock-up ▓▌
▓████▓▌ version since we weren't black, had no experience ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of slavery, had never even touched a farm implant ▓▌
▓████▓▌ or picked anything that grew from the ground, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ except for the occasional weedà.Whites Off Earth ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Now!! Indeed. Alan remembered the song and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ suggested that we bring it back. It seemed to have ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a new resonance in the context of these other ▓▌
▓████▓▌ songs. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Don't Want To Be A Soldier (John Lennon): Another ▓▌
▓████▓▌ song that I've always wanted to cover. The lyrics ▓▌
▓████▓▌ are about as existential as one can get (not that ▓▌
▓████▓▌ I'm too sure about the definition of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ existentialism, but if a lyric can be existential ▓▌
▓████▓▌ then this one has got to be, doesn't it?). We ▓▌
▓████▓▌ decided to have some fun with this one. We set up a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ drum loop and jammed away. After it was all over we ▓▌
▓████▓▌ realized that there was a definite hip-hop motion ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to the loop so we invited a friend of ours, Kevin ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Bond (aka Rebel) to write and record a rap, based ▓▌
▓████▓▌ on the themes that were driving the songs on the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ album. We then dumped the whole mess in Jeff ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Wolpert's lap and asked him to make sense of it. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ One (U2): I'm not a huge U2 fan, although I have ▓▌
▓████▓▌ truck loads of respect for them. My wife suggested ▓▌
▓████▓▌ this song and it had always been one of my guilty ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pleasures. Once I started playing it the beauty of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the chord changes just took over. It is a pleasure ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to play. John reminded me that Johnny Cash had ▓▌
▓████▓▌ covered it on his last record, so we made a point ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of not listening to his version. Lyrically it is a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ beautiful punctuation mark (whether it is a period, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ question mark or exclamation mark is debatable) to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the themes that are explored throughout the albumà ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "We are one, but we're not the same. We got to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ carry each other, carry each other"à yup. ▓▌
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