Cowboy Junkies news

Admired for the carefully chosen cover versions of songs that have been part of their repertoire from the very beginning, veteran Canadian band Cowboy Junkies will release "Songs of the Recollection" on March 25 on Proper Records. See full track listing and Northeast tour dates below.

This collection features tracks from David Bowie, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Vic Chesnutt and The Cure.

"Five Years is the opening track to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars...those ominous, persistent drums fade-up, the opening piano chord explodes and Bowie steps into the listeners life. This was the type of moment that turned our innocent minds inside out when we were young and hunkering greedily around the turntable. When we play it live today....50 years after it was written....it seems to have more power and relevance than ever; climate change, the pandemic, collapsing democracies...choose your crisis...David predicted them all." - Cowboy Junkies guitarist Michael Timmins.

Songs of the Recollection follows 2018’s acclaimed studio album All That Reckoning as well as commercial breakthrough The Trinity Sessions (1988), Pale Sun, Crescent Moon (1993), Lay It Down (1996), Open (2001), and At the End of Paths Taken (2007) in reflecting the band’s unique and independent creative journey.

Track listing - Original artist:

1. Five Years – David Bowie

2. Ooh Las Vegas * - Gram Parsons
3. No Expectations - Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
4. Don't Let It Bring You Down – Neil Young
5. Love In Mind – Neil Young
6. The Way I Feel * - Gordon Lightfoot

7. I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You – Bob Dylan

8. Marathon * - Vic Chesnutt

9. Seventeen Seconds * - The Cure

*previously commercially released

Tour dates:

March 3 Port Washington, NY Landmark on Main Street
March 4 & 5 NYC, NY City Winery NYC Pier 57
March 6 Albany, NY Sawyer Theatre
March 8 Homer, NY Homer Center for the Arts
April 9 Ardmore, PA Ardmore Music Hall
April 10 Alexandria, VA The Birchmere
April 12 Portsmouth, NH Portsmouth Music Hall
April 13 Northampton, MA Academy of Music
April 14 Lexington, MA Cary Hall
April 15 Ridgefield, CT The Ridgefield Playhouse
May 12 Norfolk, VA Virginia Arts Festival
May 13 Annapolis, MD Rams Head On Stage
May 15 Hopewell, VA The Beacon Theater