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Everyone seems to be doing covers albums these days, putting their spin on other artists’ songs, the Cowboy Junkies – Margo, Michael and Peter Timmins, along with Alan Alton, also throwing their hat into the ring with ‘Songs of the Recollection‘. Some of the recordings have been previously released (partly explaining the title), and several have been featured in their live shows. As you might expect, along with some familiar choices that fit within their musical field, they’ve thrown in a couple of more off the wall selections too, opening up with a moody, spooked, hollow drums all-new reading of Bowie’s Five Years featuring Jeff Bird on electric mandolin with an echo effect on Margo’s hypnotic vocal prowl.

Fellow Canadians naturally figure. Neil Young appears twice, the songs back to back, first being Don’t Let It Bring You Down with haunted drums, squally guitars and taken at a tempo with a modicum more life than the original, followed by a gently caressed, languidly sung Love In Mind that has the air of a lazy afternoon blissed out in a hammock.  Taken from ‘Neath The Covers Vol 2, another compatriot, Gordon Lightfoot, completes the Canuck triptych with a jittery walking rhythm, The Way I Feel, punctuated by Michael’s guitar solo.

Not a wholly new project then, but bringing together the four recent recordings alongside the other hard to find tracks, it’s a highly engaging stop-gap while we wait for the follow up to Ghosts.

Tracks:
1. Five Years (4:23) 
2. Ooh las Vegas (5:17)
3. No Expectations (4:11)
4. Don't Let It Bring You Down (4:26)
5. Love in Mind (3:42)
6. The Way I Feel (4:11)
7. I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You (6:31)
8. Marathon (5:22)
9. Seventeen Seconds (4:46)
totale tijdsduur: 42:49

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGyhw4tD_iE