Cowboy Junkies
Royal Festival Hall
London
UK
27th November 2022


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taper: rayrad


1st Set

01. intro
02. Five Years (David Bowie)
03. Sweet Jane (The Velvet Underground)
04. chat
05. No Expectations (The Rolling Stones)
06. Seventeen Seconds (The Cure)
07. A Common Disaster
08. Shining Moon (Lightnin' Hopkins)
09. chat
10. Don't Let It Bring You Down (Neil Young)


2nd Set

11. All That Reckoning (Part 1)
12. Missing Children
13. Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
14. chat
15. Blue Guitar
16. chat
17. Black Eyed Man †
18. chat
19. Rake (Townes van Zandt) †
20. Powderfinger (Neil Young) †
21. 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
22. 3rd Crusade
23. Good Friday
24. band intros + chat
25. Blue Moon Revisited
26. crowd
27. Misguided Angel
28. Murder, Tonight In The Trailer Park


Margo Timmins - vocals
Michael Timmins - guitar
Alan Anton - bass
Peter Timmins - drums
Jeff Bird - mandolin / lap steel / harmonica / percussion

† acoustic - Margo, Michael & Jeff only


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covers records

not always the great idea they initially seem

but maybe if you spend twenty-five years making them...

'songs of the recollection', cowboy junkies latest, features five new interpretations alongside another four that have made their way to various tribute records over the preceding decades

and it's a triumph

tonight we get a handful of those covers - plus a selection of others

and there's not a misstep amongst them

cowboy junkies do the cure?

yup

and how

i've repeatedly encountered a sneery kind of snobbishness about the junkies amongst people whose taste otherwise tends to chime with my own

they're somehow TOO tasteful, too precious

something about the band rubs people up the wrong way

but i was sold, lock, stock and barrel, the first moment i heard margo timmins' voice

and they haven't let me down since

this show, finishing a european tour in support of the record, has that feel of a culmination

and michael timmins is determined to go out with a bang

much to margo's apparent surprise, he calls out 'murder, tonight in the trailer park' as the final encore

she acquiesces - and gives it everything - but by the final 'murderrrrrrrrrrrrrr!' seems absolutely spent

heading off stage with an exhausted wave of submission as the band play us out in a howling squall

when it comes time to repay the favour, who'll dare cover songs like this in twenty-five years time?

maybe if they start working on it now...

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