Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Revisited [CD/DVD]
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Artist: Cowboy JunkiesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Music Label: Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- Mining for Gold
- Misguided Angel
- Blue Moon Revisited
- I Don't Get It
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- To Love Is to Bury
- 200 More Miles
- Dreaming My Dreams
- Working on a Building
- Sweet Jane
- Postcard Blues
- Walking After Midnight
Free Music Notes for Trinity Revisited [CD/DVD]
Free Music Review: could it be even better than the original?
Hit: 5 Stars
Everyone has a copy of Trinity, as well they should. When I saw that the Junkies were going to re-record it, I was more than a bit apprehensive. My most recent experiences with an artist revisiting their old work, such as Tori Amos's re-working of several songs for her retrospective "Tales of a Librarian", left me cold. So this has been sitting on my shelf for a few months now, waiting for me to listen.
I'm now kicking myself for waiting so long. They didn't just re-record the old tracks, they took a fresh look at them. This fresh look is helped along by bringing in a surprising slate of guest artists: Natalie Merchant, Ryan Adams, and Vic Chesnutt. It works, it works really really well. I am in awe.
The album starts out with Margo doing "Mining for Gold". Even though it's acapella, and even though I don't think she's changed the phrasing, she made it sound more plaintive this time around. It's a great introduction to the album.
Next up is "Misguided Angel". I've listened to this song hundreds of times, and I've heard it live a couple of dozen times. Maybe it's my long association with this song, but it's also the song that I think is least well-served by the introduction of an additional voice. Natalie Merchant sings with Margo on this one. Natalie Merchant has a distinctive voice that I generally like, but which I don't think is a general-purpose voice. Margo could sing the phone book and I'd love it, but not Natalie. And here, Natalie's voice makes it feel like she's intruding on the song. On first listen, this gave me pause for the rest of the album. Thankfully, I needn't have worried.
Vic Chesnutt comes in on "Blue Moon Revisited", which is the first song that made me remember exactly why I like him so much. Vic is an acquired taste, to be sure, but this is probably one way to make him more accessible. His voice on this track, and even moreso on "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and "Dreaming My Dreams with You" is nothing short of haunting. These three songs have been in constant rotation on my iPod for the past couple of weeks.
Ryan Adams can be heard playing guitar on most of the album, with his singing coming to the fore on "I Don't Get It". The song, while still sedate, becomes a bit more boisterous and fun. He's a great foil to Margo's singing here. Later on, his take on the slightly-melancholy "200 More Miles" is inspired.
Natalie Merchant returns to take on "To Love Is to Bury". This is a Junkies-free tune: she plays piano, and the unofficial (although I don't understand why he's unofficial) fifth Junkie Jeff Bird plays fiddle. The rest of the band is nowhere to be seen. This song shines, which serves to make the earlier "Misguided Angel" all that more disappointing. She's really well-suited to this song, and I think that she does a better version of it than the couple of live versions that I've heard from the Junkies themselves in the past few years. I feel a bit guilty for saying that, but there you have it.
"Working on a Building", "Sweet Jane", "Postcard Blues", and "Walking After Midnight" feature all of the musicians. "Working on a Building" and "Walking After Midnight" especially feel like the listener is getting a
special look at a group of people who are just playing together for the fun of it, and in the course of having fun, they're creating some exquisite music. Sometimes a band jams together and magic happens; four separate incidents of that occur on this album.
The DVD is just gorgeous. The artists are in a circle in the church, and the lighting and shooting make for a beautiful concert video, the likes of which haven't been seen before. The DVD intensifies the feeling of sneaking a peak into an intimate jam session.
I hesitate to throw around the term "instant classic", but I'm not sure if any other descriptor could possibly do it justice. It's so good that it begs the question of whether this album is better than the original. Both are great. The original is one of the seminal works of our time, the latter feels like it will get there after a few more listens. Is one better? I honestly can't answer that question -- and that underscores the strength of this album. I can't recommend this album highly enough.
Trinity Revisited [CD/DVD] Poster
Trying to recapture the lightening in a bottle that was the Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Sessions for its 20th anniversary would have been futile. Instead, the band reconvened in the same Toronto church where that now classic, nearly magical session occurred--this time with a camera, light crew, and famous friends--to play the songs again. Guest vocalists/musicians Natalie Merchant, Ryan Adams, Vic Chesnutt, and longtime associate Jeff Bird (who contributed to the original) bring their spin to various tunes, resulting in a CD/DVD package that's arguably just as emotionally powerful, if maybe not as arresting, as the 1988 release. Twenty years of honing this material adds depth and maturity to the arrangements that, while fundamentally similar, have ripened with time and age. They have also lengthened. "Sweet Jane" stretches from about four minutes to almost nine, and "Working on a Building" expands to over six. The extra time provides a wider palette for the band to paint its melancholy yet intense soundscape. Merchant takes sole lead vocals and plays piano on a chillingly stripped down "To Love is to Bury," Chesnutt gives "Postcard Blues" a dose of his gritty soul, and Adams brings twang to the sparse "200 More Miles." The accompanying DVD is beautifully lit and shot, adding visual resonance to the music. A 45-minute documentary fills in historical blanks with a roundtable band interview, rehearsal footage, and other fly-on-the-wall video captured during the three-day project. It's a nearly perfect tribute to a nearly perfect album that quietly kick-started the Cowboy Junkies' impressive career. --Hal HorowitzOn November 27, 1987 the Cowboy Junkies set up a single microphone inside The Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto, Ontario and in one day recorded what would become The Trinity Session, a landmark album of originals and covers grounded in traditional country, blues, and folk, with a clear nod to The Velvet Underground. The album would go on to sell millions of copies worldwide and establish the Cowboy Junkies as one of the most influential bands of the alternative era. Now, 20 years later, the Cowboy Junkies have returned to The Church of the Holy Trinity to celebrate their most famous work with the help of special guests Ryan Adams, Natalie Merchant, Vic Chesnutt, and Jeff Bird. This time around, the band brought some extra mics and a camera crew along, and the result is a very special 2-disc set (1 CD & 1 DVD), filmed in high-definition video and mixed in stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound which captures the essence of the Cowboy Junkies and their landmark album as never before. A bonus documentary about the making of the album is also included.
DVD tracks include:
1. Mining for Gold 2. Misguided Angel 3. Blue Moon Revisited 4. I Don't Get It 5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 6. To Love Is to Bury 7. 200 More Miles 8. Dreaming My Dreams 9. Working on a Building 10. Sweet Jane 11. Postcard Blues 12. Walking After Midnight
A Special Set in Honour of the 20th Anniversary of the Release of the Seminal Trinity Session CD. Packaged in a Casebound Booklet. The Dvd also Includes a Documentary.
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