The Cowboy Junkies - At the End of Paths Taken
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Artist: The Cowboy JunkiesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Music Label: Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- Brand New World
- Still Lost
- Cutting Board Blues
- Spiral Down
- My Little Basquiat
- Someday Soon
- Follower 2
- It Doesn't Really Matter Anyway
- Blues Eyed Saviour
- Mountain
- My Only Guarantee
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Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
I have also followed the Junkies very closely since 1988 and my fascination with The Trinity Sessions. I have seen them many times in concert over the years as well. That being said, I haven't felt this way about a Junkies CD since Lay It Down. It's by far their best work in a decade, not that the previous albums didn't have their qualities. But, this one has a mood and a feel that didn't come across on the previous attempts. I could listen to "Still Lost" everyday and never grow tired. The production shifts from bare minimalist to full studio craft. This one is a classic Junkies CD that will remain in the rotation for a long time to come. Great job Junkies and see ya down the road soon.
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The Cowboy Junkies' gothic Americana takes a psychedelic hue on At the End of Paths Taken, replete with Beatlesque string sections and snarling, distorted guitar leads. It's an often epic album, exemplified by the opening track, "Brand New World," which starts off like a lament and ends with a triumph of surging strings. Atop it all sits singer Margo Timmins. She's the lover everyone wants, a voice that is at once world-weary and inviting, domineering and seductive. She's the perfect vehicle for writer and brother Michael Timmins--especially on an album that deals with adult themes--because if nothing else, Margo sounds like an adult, a woman who has experienced the world and life and things that maybe we shouldn't talk about. A mother's frustration never sounded as ominous and threatening as on "Cutting Board Blues." Sitting astride a buzzsaw guitar riff and a groove of doom, she talks about walking away from it all, leaving her cutting board behind. Many of the themes concern adulthood and children with a sense of despair about the world those children are entering on songs like "My Little Basquiat." There are moments of light and hope on At the End of Paths Taken, but overall it is a deliriously dark and brooding album. --John DilibertoDespite its title, the new Cowboy Junkies album, At the End of Paths Taken, is as much about new beginnings as it is about endings. It is also about human connections, the struggle to sustain those connections over time, and the complexities that can arise even when those connections are maintained. It is, in other words, a classic Cowboy Junkies album - a suite of smart, richly textured songs that value subtlety over broad, generic strokes, songs that prize insight and casual revelations over easily digestible clich?s. Family lies at the heart of the album's eleven songs, and, of course, that is appropriate, too. Three of the band's members - singer Margo Timmins; songwriter, producer and guitarist Michael Timmins; and drummer Peter Timmins - are siblings, and bassist Alan Anton has been a member since the group formed in Toronto in 1985. Few bands have lasted nearly as long with their original line-up intact, and fewer still have created as consistently satisfying a body of work.
2007 Album from the Veteran Canadian Alt/Country Rock Group that the Band "Think is a Swell Piece of Work". It's their First Formal Album in Almost a Decade (Ignoring the Soundtrack of the Movie "Lost and Delirious"). It is also their Debut on the Cooking Vinyl Label.
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