The Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Sessions. Original RCA vinyl from 1988. What a strange message from another star this was in 1988. Even then, young enough to like Whitesnake, old enough to have two copies of Station to Station, this record felt like a genre unto itself. Brooding and deep in way that nothing else on Mtv had ever been. Like some sort of dark angel was let through the pop music gates. For a while I thought she was singing ,”sweet chains.”
So, the vinyl… here’s the thing- you lose a whole track ( Blue Moon revisited/Song for Elvis) that was CD and Cassette only, but you get close enough to hear the soft inhale of Margo Timmins, taking one delicate breath just before singing,” We are miners, hard rock miners…” Or you hear the depth and space of the church where it was recorded. In fact, this is a record about space. You don’t listen to this casually.
Standout Tracks: Misguided Angel, Dreaming my Dreams, 200 more miles.
