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Cowboy Junkies and Son Volt at Wood River Cellars on July 24th, 2009
Idaho Concerts welcomes Son Volt and The Cowboy Junkies for a co-headlining show at Wood River Cellars on Friday, July 24th, 2009.
COWBOY JUNKIES
Cowboy Junkies began their singular journey in 1985 when Michael Timmins (guitar), Peter Timmins (drums) and bassist Alan Anton, one of Michael's oldest friends, began jamming in a garage. Michael and Alan had tried their luck with a couple of other bands, Hunger Project and Germinal, and had recently returned to Toronto after several years in New York and London. The next step was to find a singer. I never wanted to be a musician, Margo Timmins confides, but one day Mike asked me to sing. I said yes, but only if I didnt have to do it in front of the other guys. So I sang with Mike for a couple of days, and then he asked, Um, do you think itd be okay if we brought the other guys in now? I said, Well, okay. I guess so, I mean, if we have to.
The band released its debut, Whites Off Earth Now!!, in 1986 on their own Latent Recordings label. Hypnotic and languorous, it revealed Michaels fascination with Robert Johnson, Lightnin Hopkins and other seminal blues artists. The band toured the Southern and Southwestern US in support of the record, soaking up the music of Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers along the way, which, in turn, inspired their second album, The Trinity Session, self-released in 1988.
Recorded with a single microphone in Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity in one 14-hour session at a cost of $250 The Trinity Session featured spare, lilting originals alongside Jennings, Williams and Patsy Cline covers, as well as a haunting version of the Velvet Underground classic Sweet Jane. With Sweet Jane getting considerable airplay on college and commercial radio and reviewers lauding the bands fresh sound, word soon began to spread. Before long, the Junkies had signed to RCA Records, which reissued The Trinity Session to a wider audience and platinum sales.
Their subsequent albums The Caution Horses (1990), Black Eyed Man (1992), Pale Sun, Crescent Moon (1993), Lay It Down (1996) (which featured the Top 20 Modern Rock hit A Common Disaster and earned Cowboy Junkies a gold record), Miles From Our Home (1998), Open (2001) and One Soul Now (2004) chronicle the bands evolution, a process Michael describes as gradual and organic. Its become much easier to communicate musically over the years as weve all grown as musicians and of course, we have twenty years of shows behind us now. Were able to bring greater dynamics and infinite variety to the music as a result.
In 2005, Cowboy Junkies released Early 21st Century Blues, an album principally comprised of covers which Rolling Stone proclaimed closely revisits the career-making Trinity, - hushed electric guitars, brushed drums and Margo Timmins' husky moans. It all adds up to a concept album about war that screams with a whisper. The bands most recent studio effort, At The End of Paths Taken (2007) was hailed by Paste as an album of an alluring, gently haunting quality; inspired by reflections on family and world dynamics and mortality.
Cowboy Junkies returned to Torontos Church of the Holy Trinity for a day in November 2006, joined by Ryan Adams, Natalie Merchant and Vic Chesnutt to revisit the repertoire of The Trinity Session in celebration of the original recordings 20th anniversary. Captured by filmmakers, Pierre and Francois Lamoureux, the resulting documentary, Trinity Session Revisited, was released as a DVD/CD in January 2008 to overwhelming critical response.
Please direct Cowboy Junkies media inquiries to Liz Campanile at 908.301.1947 or email at Nylightnin@aol.com.
SON VOLT RETURNS WITH 'AMERICAN CENTRAL DUST,' OUT JULY 7th ON ROUNDER RECORDS
Jay Farrar has amassed a sizable and distinctive body of work since coming on the radar with Uncle Tupelo in 1989. Son Volt returns with American Central Dust, out July 7 on Rounder Records, a plaintive 12-song collection that recalls the melodic succinctness of the bands debut album Trace. After the musical experimentation of 2007s The Search, American Central Dust, the bands first album on Rounder, refines the bands robust sound. Fiddle, pedal steel, lap steel and sparkling piano add an atmospheric nuance to Son Volts Americana inspired rock, surrounding band leader Jay Farrars stream of consciousness lyrical imagery.
Album highlights include; the rootsy shuffle of album opener Dynamite, on which Farrar declares this love is like celebrating the 4th of July with dynamite, the tremolo soaked rocker Down To The Wire, the gorgeous, piano led Cocaine And Ashes, an empathetic tribute to Keith Richards, references a man whos the same as everyone, just kind of lucky, and Sweetheart of the Rodeo-esque rocker No Turning Back.
When asked about signing to the new label, Farrar said "Rounder has shown a long term commitment to music forms, like folk and blues, that I have a lot of respect for. Going with Rounder has been a kind of a full circle continuum -- the first Rounder person I met with was instrumental in booking Uncle Tupelo gigs years ago"
American Central Dust features Jay Farrar (guitar, harmonica, vocals), Dave Bryson (drums), Andrew Duplantis (bass guitar, backing vocals), Chris Masterson (lead guitar), Mark Spencer (keyboards, steel guitar). Son Volts national tour begins in July.
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LocationWood River Cellars
3705 North Hwy 16
Eagle, ID
United States
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