Ghosts Cowboy Junkies

• 1 Desire Lines 05:58
• 2 Breathing 03:24
• 3 Grace Descends 03:48
• 4 (You Don't Get To) Do It Again 04:32
• 5 The Possessed 03:22
• 6 Misery 02:51
• 7 This Dog Barks 03:25
• 8 Ornette Coleman 03:21
• Total Runtime 30:41

Info for Ghosts

Ghosts is a collection of songs the Cowboy Junkies began working on while on tour in support of the band’s brilliant 2018 album All That Reckoning. Margo, and Peter Timmins lost their mother two months after that album was released — the songs on Ghosts process the emotional upheaval of her death.

Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins (vocalist), Michael Timmins (songwriter, guitarist), Peter Timmins (drummer) and Alan Anton (bassist).

The Junkies first performed publicly at the Beverley Tavern and other clubs in Toronto’s Queen Street West, including The Rivoli. Their 1986 debut album, produced by Canadian producer Peter Moore, was the blues-inspired Whites Off Earth Now!!, recorded using an ambisonic microphone in the family garage.

The group’s fame spread with their second album, The Trinity Session, recorded in 1987 at Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity. Their sound, again using the ambisonic microphone, and their mix of blues, country, folk, rock andjazz earned them both critical attention and a cult following. The Los Angeles Times named the recording as one of the ten best albums of 1988.

The band was nominated for Group of the Year at the Juno Awards in 1990 and 1991. In the early 1990s Margo Timmins was named “one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world” by People Magazine. The group has continued to tour North America, Europe, Japan and Australia with extensive North American and European tours following album releases in 2002 and 2004. In 2008, they released Trinity Revisited in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original recording of The Trinity Session.

"As mentioned, darkness is pervasive here, but not all-encompassing. The record ends with a reflection on jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The song evolves into a rumination on the power of art and memory. “His music made me question the shape of my life to come,” Margo Timmins sings. After 35 years as a group, the Junkies still revel in making mysterious shapes out of their music." (Scott McLennan; artsfuse.org)

Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies
are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins (vocalist), Michael Timmins (songwriter, guitarist), Peter Timmins (drummer) and Alan Anton (bassist).

The Junkies first performed publicly at the Beverley Tavern and other clubs in Toronto’s Queen Street West, including The Rivoli. Their 1986 debut album, produced by Canadian producer Peter Moore, was the blues-inspired Whites Off Earth Now!!, recorded using an ambisonic microphone in the family garage.

The group’s fame spread with their second album, The Trinity Session,recorded in 1987 at Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity. Their sound, again using the ambisonic microphone, and their mix of blues, country, folk, rock andjazz earned them both critical attention and a cult following. The Los Angeles Times named the recording as one of the ten best albums of 1988.

The band was nominated for Group of the Year at the Juno Awards in 1990 and 1991. In the early 1990s Margo Timmins was named “one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world” by People Magazine. The group has continued to tour North America, Europe, Japan and Australia with extensive North American and European tours following album releases in 2002 and 2004. In 2008, they released Trinity Revisited in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original recording of The Trinity Session.

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