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Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies

Although it didn't originally have anything to do with their sound, the Cowboy Junkies' name wound up seeming pretty accurate: their music was grounded in traditional country, blues, and folk, yet drifted along in a sleepy, narcotic haze that clearly bore the stamp of the Velvet Underground. The vast majority of their songs were spare and quiet, taken at lethargic tempos and filled with languid guitars and detached, ethereal...
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by Steve Huey

Formed

1985 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Genre

Pop/Rock

Styles

  • Alternative Pop/Rock
  • Alternative Country-Rock
  • Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
  • Alternative/Indie Rock
  • College Rock

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  • Renmin Park

    Renmin Park, the first volume in the Cowboy Junkies' Nomad Series, was named for the park where guitarist/songwriter Michael Timmins spent a considerable amount of time while in the... More ...

  • Trinity Revisited [Bonus DVD]

    1988's The Trinity Session was the album that established the Cowboy Junkies as a world-class band with a singular musical approach, but though there's little arguing that the musicians... More ...

  • At the End of Paths Taken

    Michael Timmins, chief songwriter and producer/arranger of the Cowboy Junkies, has always written "relationship" songs, though not in the general sense of the word. Timmins has never been... More ...

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