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July 6, 2004

Cowboy Junkies Get "Soul"

U.S. tour to launch Tuesday in New York
April 18, 2002

Cowboy Junkies' New Trails

Live DVD, tour next for alt-country vets
July 26, 2001

Cowboy Junkies Open Up

Cult heroes living in style
June 13, 2001

Cowboy Junkies Open Tour

Toronto band has hometown crowd literally on its feet

Recordings and Reviews

At The End Of Paths Taken

The eleventh album from these gentle Canadians is long on winsome tunes, acoustic grooves and modest keyboard, etc., adornments. Some of the darker cuts are also intriguing, but tunes like ?Brand New World? are sleepier than a ten-year-old on four Tylenol PMs, and stuff like ?Spiral Down? sounds lik...

2007 RS: 2of 5 Stars

Early 21st Century Blues

2005

Pale Sun, Crescent Moon

1993

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1988

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Biography

The Toronto quartet Cowboy Junkies have made a career out of its soft-focus sound, initially emphasizing the drowsily pretty vocals of Margo Timmins, with brother Michael Timmins' droning guitar leads grad-ually assuming a bigger role. They've maximized that rather limited approach by evincing exquisite taste, particularly on the covers-heavy early albums, and by playing off the tension between Ma...

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