Favorite Cowboy Junkies?

+1 on "F I Hate the Cold"
The Nomad Series never took in my rotation, but that one's a fun romp.

So much to like!  Other than the Dead, have seen and listened to CJ more than any other band. 


I prefer the folkier stuff to the spacier stuff, so my faves are Black-Eyed Man and Caution Horses, though I really like the more spacey Miles From Our Home.

200 More Miles is nice live compilation, as is Waltz Across America.

I also really enjoy a sort of self-bootleg I picked up at one of their concerts, Acoustic Junk.  Like a lot of their stuff, pretty well recorded, and I use it to  demo gear.

Newer stuff, like The Nomad Series, have left me a bit cooler. (Exceptions like "Flirted with You All My Life" on the Vic Chesnutt tribute noted.)

+1 the Thunder Road Cover!
I'll seek out the EPs.

I'll give All that Reckoning a spin, richmon.
Looks like my last purchase was At the Ends of Paths Taken, which didn't grab me.
Funny to see the band age -- last show I was at, Margo said, "we know you all need to get home to your babysitters, so we'll do just one more."  Sigh . . . .

I give All That Reckoning a listen.

Very well put together, and I think better than some of their other recent efforts, but still on the spacier side of their range, which, as I've said is not my favorite part of what they do.

I guess the folkier stuff is "bouncy" in a way that is uplifting, even when the lyrics are sad -- as they usually are!

If you do like the spacier stuff, definitely check out, if you've not already, Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I May See, a "hypnofolk" classic of around CJ's vintage.

deadhead1000
It looks like I hallucinated "hypnofolk" -- nothing on wikipedia, though there is a band of that name.

Sure does describe Mazzy, though!

Others to try in the CJ vein:

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, "Reckless Burning"

Po'Girl, "Vagabond Lullabies," and "Home to You"

Thanks, mofi!
Listening to Margo and Jeff Bird right now -- nice.
Office system, but sounds very good.

As good a thread as any for this:

I just saw the Robin Wright movie Land.

The movie is OK, but the soundtrack should interest CJ fans.

It features a group of sisters called the Staves, who do a tremendous cover of Springsteen's "I'm on Fire."

They movie closes with them performing a very lovely song, "So You Remember Me." (Interestingly, performed by somebody else on the soundtrack album, also very well.)


I have not been smitten by the Staves' own albums so far, but worth a listen.