Cowboy Junkies' long-awaited music return due next month

I was glad to see the band still in fine form last year at Stagecoach Festival, where, if memory serves, they played a few of the new tunes. I look forward to hearing the album. Read more from the press release below...

Cowboy Junkies will release All That Reckoning, the band’s first new recording since The Wilderness (2012) on July 13 via their own Latent Recordings, distributed by Redeye. The band will support the release with several concert dates. (See below for full schedule – more to be added).

“It’s a deeper and a more complete record than we’ve ever done before. We’ve always tried to make records that are relevant to who we are as people…These songs are about reckoning on a personal level and reckoning on a social level,” said member Michael Timmins.

Of the new song, "The Things We Do To Each Other," Timmons says, "It is the oldest tactic in the playbook of social control...Create a culture of fear and then begin to manipulate that fear to distract, divert and divide. Unfortunately, the end result is that fear usually turns to hate and hate is a human emotion that is impossible to predict and control."

"There’s a line in “When We Arrive”, he continues, ““Welcome...to the Age of Dissolution” which has been in my notebook for years. Every time I sit down to write an album I have stared at it and wondered why I wrote it and what it means. Finally, the times have caught up with the line and the Age of Dissolution is upon us. A time where so many personal, social and institutional constructs are crumbling and being devoured by forces that we have wittingly and unwittingly unleashed upon the land."

In the late 80's, Cowboy Junkies proved that there was an audience waiting for something quiet, beautiful and reflective thanks to their album, The Trinity Session. Pale Sun, Crescent Moon (1993), Lay It Down (1996), Open (2001) and At the End of Paths Taken (2007) are among the albums that followed.

To hear an advance stream of the title track All That Reckoning Pt. 1., go to https://youtu.be/bLUVYVkAyOE

Tour dates: 

July 6 Albuquerque, NM ABQ Biopark Zoo

July 8 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
July 9 Fort Collins, CO The Armory
July 18 Lexington, MA Cary Hall
July 19 Martha’s Vineyard, MA Old Whaling Church
July 20 Portsmouth, NH The Music Hall
July 22 New York NY City Winery
July 23 New York, NY City Winery
July 24 New York, NY City Winery

July 26 Alexandria, VA The Birchmere

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