Music CD - Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Revisited [CD/DVD]

	Music CD: Trinity Revisited [CD/DVD] Artist: Cowboy Junkies List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $12.68 Your Save: $ 7.30 ( 37% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Zoe Records
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Tracks: 1. Mining for Gold 2. Misguided Angel 3. Blue Moon Revisited 4. I Don't Get It 5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 6. To Love Is to Bury 7. 200 More Miles 8. Dreaming My Dreams 9. Working on a Building 10. Sweet Jane 11. Postcard Blues 12. Walking After Midnight
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0601143112126 Label: Zoe Records Manufacturer: Zoe Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Zoe Records Release Date: 2008-02-26 Studio: Zoe Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Aaarghh.... Comment: I so much wanted to like this CD. Love the Cowboy Junkies, and am a big Natalie Merchant fan as well. Listening to them collaborate in this setting, though, is just a nails-on-chalkboard experience. Some great tastes don't go great together. Customer Rating: Summary: Trinity revisited Comment: I love this album, I have always loved Cowboy junkies, but my true love is Natalie Merchant, so when I saw this colaboration I knew I had to have it and have not been disapointed. Customer Rating: Summary: Junkies: Great -- Guest Musicians: Not So Much Comment: As a long time Junkies fan, I was looking forward to this album like a child looks forward to Christmas morning. But I have to say it was quite a let down. Kinda like getting clothes instead of the Xbox 360 you were really hoping for -- not the worst gift in the world, but ultimately unsatisfying. The Junkies sound great, as always, but the guest vocalists really turn me off. Especially Natalie Merchant. I like a lot of her solo and 10K Maniacs stuff, but she sounds just dreadful on this CD. I literally shudder when she starts bleating the classic lyrics I've listened to for so many years. It's not that I feel that the Junkies lyrics are so sacred that no one else should sing them (well, maybe part of me feels that way), but hearing someone other than Margo singing those lyrics with the rest of the Junkies band - as opposed to a band doing an outright cover of the Junkies music - just sounds really out of place -- the auditory version of looking at a really bad Photoshop. Maybe it will grow on me, but right now it's my very least favorite Junkies album. Which I didn't have before... If you have the chance to listen to this album before you buy it, I would strongly advise that you do. Customer Rating: Summary: Addicted to Cowboy Junkies Comment: Trinity Revisited is a amazing album. I came to Cowboy Junkies recently from an odd direction (that I need not go into here). I now wish I had been with them their whole career. I have a very small reference point, but I can say "that be you longterm fan, short term fan, never heard of the band you'll fall in love with this album. The more you listen to it the deeper you'll go. And, you'll soon be addicted like me." Customer Rating: Summary: Two performances alone are worth the price Comment: For me, the quality of two of the performances is worth the price of the DVD. They are "Misguided Angel" and "200 More Miles". In Misguided Angel, Margo alternates the lead vocal with Natalie Merchant, except at the end when they harmonize, and believe me, the result is outstanding. It is better than the original. The vocals are complemented by the whole band, but Jeff Bird in particular plays beautiful harmonica and strings. In 200 More Miles, Ryan Adams performs one of the most transcendent and talented vocals I have ever witnessed. His clear articulation allowed me to hear words not comprehensible in the original. I have never heard a more emotional or angst-ridden treatment of lyrics, with the possible exception of the pre-Army Elvis, country music's George Jones or Wynonna Judd. The beautiful stained-glass and altar of the Trinity Church are a great backdrop for the performances, which are tinged in blue floodlight. Others may find some of the other songs appealing. Criticism is subjective, this is just my two cents. But I would have gladly paid fifteen bucks just to have Misguided Angel and 200 More Miles to watch over and over again. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Trying to recapture the lightening in a bottle that was the Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Sessions for its 20th anniversary would have been futile. Instead, the band reconvened in the same Toronto church where that now classic, nearly magical session occurred--this time with a camera, light crew, and famous friends--to play the songs again. Guest vocalists/musicians Natalie Merchant, Ryan Adams, Vic Chesnutt, and longtime associate Jeff Bird (who contributed to the original) bring their spin to various tunes, resulting in a CD/DVD package that's arguably just as emotionally powerful, if maybe not as arresting, as the 1988 release. Twenty years of honing this material adds depth and maturity to the arrangements that, while fundamentally similar, have ripened with time and age. They have also lengthened. "Sweet Jane" stretches from about four minutes to almost nine, and "Working on a Building" expands to over six. The extra time provides a wider palette for the band to paint its melancholy yet intense soundscape. Merchant takes sole lead vocals and plays piano on a chillingly stripped down "To Love is to Bury," Chesnutt gives "Postcard Blues" a dose of his gritty soul, and Adams brings twang to the sparse "200 More Miles." The accompanying DVD is beautifully lit and shot, adding visual resonance to the music. A 45-minute documentary fills in historical blanks with a roundtable band interview, rehearsal footage, and other fly-on-the-wall video captured during the three-day project. It's a nearly perfect tribute to a nearly perfect album that quietly kick-started the Cowboy Junkies' impressive career. --Hal Horowitz