Cowboy Junkies
20 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, 1996
Timmins frère et soeur talk about recording, writing and performing, and latest album Lay It Down.
File format: mp3; file size: 15.4mb, interview length: 16' 52" sound quality: *****
List of articles in the library
Saddled With The Blues: Cowboy Junkies
Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 1988
JOHN WAYNE on smack? Is that what you expected and outfit who call themselves Cowboy Junkies to sound like? Wild country and western shoot-outs and ...
Cowboy Junkies Shoot For Success
Interview by Holly Gleason, Rolling Stone, 9 March 1989
NASHVILLE'S BLUEBIRD CAFE is packed for the local debut of the Cowboy Junkies. The Canadian bands lethargic cover of 'Sweet Jane' has been talked up ...
Cowboy Junkies: Lone Rangers on the Country Landscape
Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 26 March 1989
SIMON REYNOLDS rides with the Cowboy Junkies ...
Cowboy Junkies: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 27 March 1989
Cowpoking explorers: one of the newest names in New Country and an all-out thrash attack ...
The Cowboy Junkies: Cowboy country
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 30 June 1989
Mark Cooper hears how the Cowboy Junkies draw on Canada for their inspiration ...
Cowboy Junkies: Horse Latitudes
Interview by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 24 February 1990
"MOST OF THE SONGS, there's a grain of hope in there. The characters are always striving for something else. They're in a situation which is ...
Kris Kristofferson Meets The Cowboy Junkies: Country Music On The Morning After
Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, June 1990
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON occupies an unusual place among American songwriters. His songs have been covered by such legends as his inspiration Bob Dylan ('They Killed Him'), ...
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, March 1991
THERE IS something about 547 Crawford Street with its beer crate-strewn hallway, ashtray-scented kitchen (replete with moist, green furry organisms in the unlikeliest of places) ...
Cowboy Junkies: Whites Off Earth Now!!
Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, April 1991
PICTURE THE SCENE in 1986. The Junkies are lurking in their garage with a two-track machine and single microphone, ready for a jam session. But ...
Cowboy Junkies: Black Eyed Man (RCA)
Review by Richard C. Walls, Musician, March 1992
THE NAME Cowboy Junkies suggests an addiction to an attitude, and the nodded-out, muted quality of their music — everything, including the drums, Margo Timmins' ...
Cowboy Junkies: Black-Eyed Man
Review by 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 ...
Cowboy Junkies: Steers Beers and Pointy Ears
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 7 March 1992
Q: Who killed John Wayne?A: Burt Lungcancer.– Cowboy drug joke, trad. ...
Cowboy Junkies: Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 11 December 1993
COWBOY JUNKIES have long been masters of understatement, their holier-than-wow, whispering glass elegies sliding slowly down the walls of heartache, all good taste and honey. ...
Cowboy Junkies take the indie route
Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 7 May 2001
IT'S NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to imagine Margo Timmins as a bad-tempered diva. The angel-voiced singer of Canada's Cowboy Junkies has always been a point of calm ...
Cowboy Junkies: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, January 2002
ARGUABLY, TORONTO'S Cowboy Junkies were the Neil Armstrong of alt.country. Their Trinity Session album of '88, recorded live in a church, dragged the forlorn mannerisms ...
Cowboy Junkies: Early 21st Century Blues
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, September 2005
Conchie dispatches from the folk frontline ...
Cowboy Junkies: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 17 October 2007
IT WOULD BE myth-making mischief to suggest that, upon its release 20 years ago, The Trinity Session was acclaimed as a landmark album. The best ...
The Cowboy Junkies: A Holy Ghost Feeling
Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, March 2008
CHARLOTTE, NC, 1990: The Cowboy Junkies have just taken the stage of Spirit Square, an old church renovated into a performance venue. ...
Cowboy Junkies: Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 25 January 2013
ON ANY LIST of cool rock-star accessories, an old-fashioned tea trolley will rank somewhere near the bottom. But when Toronto's alt-country veterans Cowboy Junkies played ...
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