Cowboy Junkies: Music Is The Drug - The Podcast Folgen

Going back to Cowboy Junkies' first album, "Whites Off Earth Now!!", in this episode, Michael Timmins and Alan Anton take a look at the whys and wherefores behind the inclusion of Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper" on a record that otherwise concentrates mainly on earlier blues performers like Robert Johnson and John Lee Hooker. Dark, brooding, intense, Springsteen's opus to a police encounter on the freeway might well have been dictated to him by Johnson from the other side, wondering where the crossroads went and why there are all these six lane highways instead. For the band, recently slimmed down to a four piece following the departure of John Timmins, this is the sound of them handling that extra space and settling into some of the principles that have defined much of their music ever since. In this episode, we explore how they got there and the vital role of producer Peter Moore in helping them capture it.To make sure you don't miss out on each weekly episode, remember to subscribe to "Music Is The Drug" at your favourite podcast provider - Apple, Amazon, Google, Spotify, Deezer, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podchaser and all the rest..."Cowboy Junkies - Music Is The Drug" is hosted by Dave Bowler, author of the authorised biography of the band. To order it from the band, click here. To order direct from Omnibus Press in the UK & Europe, click here.To listen to "Whites Off Earth Now!!" click here. To order the new albums, "Songs of the Recollection" and "Sharon", click here. For the ever expanding "Music Is The Drug" playlist on Spotify, click here. For more info on Cowboy Junkies, click here. For tour dates, click here.Copyright 2022 Latent Recordings.

Some songs never quite make it onto albums not because they're not up to standard, but because they simply refuse to fit in with all the other songs. In the olden days, they'd get scooped up and used on the b-side of a single or 12", but in the modern world, they tend to have to wait until a band is ready to issue a 'rarities' stye record. "Ikea Parking Lot" is one of those songs and when you listen to it, you can see why. Eerie, atmospheric, even harrowing, what song would you put it before it or after it? So it was that it found its way into the public domain on the fourth CD in the "Notes Falling Slow" box set - and Cowboy Junkies' musical story is richer for having it out there for people to hear. Michael Timmins and Alan Anton take us through the song, from arguments over the title to the joys of living in a cold climate, from how they find those haunting keyboard sounds to embracing - or not - the inner Geddy Lee...To make sure you don't miss out on each weekly episode, remember to subscribe to "Music Is The Drug" at your favourite podcast provider - Apple, Amazon, Google, Spotify, Deezer, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podchaser and all the rest..."Cowboy Junkies - Music Is The Drug" is hosted by Dave Bowler, author of the authorised biography of the band. To order it from the band, click here. To order direct from Omnibus Press in the UK & Europe, click here.To listen to "Notes Falling Slow", click here. To order the new albums, "Songs of the Recollection" and "Sharon", click here. For the ever expanding "Music Is The Drug" playlist on Spotify, click here. For more info on Cowboy Junkies, click here. For tour dates, click here.Copyright 2022 Latent Recordings.

"Breathing" is a song from the "Ghosts" album that was released by Cowboy Junkies as the world began to slip into Covid lockdown in March 2020.Deeply personal, strikingly minimalist, powerfully emotional, we'll just leave it to Michael Timmins and Alan Anton to explain it all to you..."Music Is The Drug" is available wherever you get your podcasts. Please remember to subscribe at your favourite podcast provider - Apple, Amazon, Google, Spotify, Deezer, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podchaser and all the rest."Cowboy Junkies - Music Is The Drug" is hosted by Dave Bowler, author of the authorised biography of the band. To order it from the band, click here. To order direct from Omnibus Press in the UK & Europe, click here. To order "Ghosts" on vinyl, direct from Cowboy Junkies, click here.To listen to "Ghosts", click here. To buy "Sharon", click here. To buy "Songs of the Recollection", click here. For the ever expanding "Music Is The Drug" playlist on Spotify, click here.For more info on Cowboy Junkies, click here. For tour dates, click here.Copyright 2022 Latent Recordings.