Name: The Trinity Sessions
Brand: Cowboy Junkies

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

78635856828

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

1990-10-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Sony

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Cowboy Junkies

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Columbia

Formed in Toronto by siblings Micheal, Peter, and Margo Timmins, The Cowboy Junkies purvey a surreal brand of moody, slow motion country music. The Trinity Sessions was recorded with a single microphone in Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity (hence the title), an engineering circumstance that has everything to do with the record's stark, spacious atmosphere. Bass and lightly brushed drums provide a soft, pulsating background, while gentle guitar embellishments weave around singer Margo's haunting vocal performances. While it is the record's many covers-including treatments of the Velvet Underground's Sweet Jane, Hank Williams' I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, and Patsy Cline's Walking After Midnight - that first catch a listener's attention, the originals also sparkle. Misguided Angel, in particular, received a good deal of airplay. The combination of gentle, smoky atmospherics and the somewhat unsettling distention of conventional country song structures make The Trinity Sessions an intriguing and worthwhile listen.

The Trinity Sessions

Music US