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Berlin (dpa) – A rather loose definition of the "alternative country" style that has existed for over 30 years is: This is country music for people who do not like the country. country music.
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So, no reactionary redneck singers with cowboy hats, no "yee-haw" calls like in the rodeo, without words of greasy sorrow, without clichés violin and banjo.
As a result, cowboy junkies (also for about 30 years, almost as co-founder of this style) an alternative country band as in the picture book. And they are much more – as evidenced by the new album, "All That Reckoning", on which guitars can sometimes seem angry for Neil Young or grumpy for The Velvet Underground without destroying the euphony.
So, this is not music for the clbadic Nashville / Tennessee Country & Western fans – not just because the cowboy junkies are Toronto Canadiens. The eleven new pieces often flow slowly in slow motion, they are very complex sound paintings of a bubbling, lyrical maturity, which is unmatched in the pop and rock of today.
We only have the current song "The Things We Do To Listen to each other to see the difference with the typical acts of the countries." Fear is not far from hatred ", Margo Timmins sings with her wonderful alto voice to a frugal folk arrangement." So, if you scare people, it'll take a bit of a turn … "
It's hard to believe but it seems that they are geared towards global change to the right and US President Donald Trump The phrases do not look like pop-up political bullbags in cowboy junkies – they resonate in perfect harmony with the calm sound and The group's warmth was no different on previous quartet masterpieces, such as their sensational album "The Trinity Session" of 1988.
Three years ago, singer Timmons Margo (now 56), guitarist Michael (59), drummer Peter (52) – and bbadist / keyboard player Alan Anton (59) founded the Cowboy Junkies, initially without success. But their modest and ingenious idea of recording a dozen heartfelt ballads and half-tempo songs at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto at the end of November 1987 brought a breakthrough.
The Trinity Session sold a good million times. Since then, Cowboy Junkies have recorded other great records such as "Pale Sun, Crescent Moon" (1993), "Waltz Across America" (2000), "Long Journey Home" (2006) or the "Nomad Series "experimental four-part (2010) until 2012) – still below the traditional radar. But the group can very well live with the cult status.
The four Canadians did not even seek mbad commercial success, they did not want to sell their souls. "Managers and record label people wanted me to wear mini-dresses and show off my legs," said Margo Timmins, who also suffered from extreme jitters for a long time, recently at British music magazine Uncut. "Who knows, maybe we would have sold more records if I did that, but we did not want to sell records."
Even with "All That Reckoning", they will not light the pop charts, that's what they are Cowboy junkies and their alternative country too clbady, too timeless and so outdated. But a song like the title track of this album, which the group presents in two versions, a tender and a brute – something less good, does not succeed too many musicians after three decades of career.
"You must enter now By focusing a little more on the release of a new disc," songwriter Michael Timmins told The Colorado Sound broadcaster. "There must be a good reason to add something to your own work." Cowboy junkies did this with "All That Reckoning" without a doubt.
Concert Dates: 14.11. Hamburg, Altona Cultural Church; 11.15. Berlin, church of pbadion
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