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Cowboy Junkies: Black-Eyed Man

Max Bell, Vox, March 1992

TORONTO'S CELEBRATED Cowboy Junkies have never seemed to pay fashionable music much at­tention. Back in '86 they recorded an extraordinary set of bluesy covers called Whites Off Earth Now (re-released in '91) and then followed up with two dark and dank Country folk al­bums that were wrapped in fu­nereal shadows.

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