Cowboy Junkies - One Soul Now - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Step back into the raw, atmospheric roots of Cowboy Junkies with this reissue of their 1986 debut album, Whites Off Earth Now!!. Captured live to tape using a single ambisonic microphone, this collection of haunting blues covers and moody originals introduced the band's signature sound, with Margo Timmins' ethereal vocals gliding over Michael Timmins' guitar work. Cut at half-speed by John Webber at Air Studios this edition brings out every nuance of the original recordings. Featuring standout tracks like InchShining MoonInch and InchBaby Please Don't Go,Inch A must-have for fans of roots rock, blues, and alt-country, Whites Off Earth Now!! is where Cowboy Junkies' journey began.

The first album from unconventional Polish power trio Species, To Find Deliverance, leveled one with it's rare blend of technical thrash prowess and unorthodox but highly inspired songwriting, enough to make 20 Buck Spin's best of 2022 album list. Out of that list a collaboration was born and now Species make their 20 Buck Spin debut with second album Changelings. A step up in every regard, Changelings is astonishing in it's accomplished precision and how much it manages to achieve within the scope of individual tracks and as a cohesive whole. The album features an overload of angular guitar warfare, traditional Euro-thrash aggression with a modern resonance, rhythmic percussive seizures, and intricate basslines that make their intention deeply felt, not just following the guitar but dialoguing with it in a way that offers a second melodic brain to the album. In combination these elements thread seamlessly to give Changelings it's colorful and uncanny vision, as if John Carpenter had co-produced Rust In Peace behind the iron curtain. It's bristling with sci-fi paranoia, alien terror and a hint of Cold War menace. The early convergence of thrash metal with death metal is also unmistakably present in the shape-shifting sound of Species.While there's more than enough primitive and traditional thrash bands to go around, Species embraces the genre's lesser-travelled road of forward-thinking virtuosity and inventive experimentation, showing there's still plenty of fertile ground to seed new musical territory. Nowhere is it more apparent than on 10-minute album closer InchBiological MasterpieceInch, where Species displays all it's weapons; hyperspeed assaults, dystopian lulls and instrumental mastery, in a climatic saga beyond space and time. Changelings is that rare album nowadays that still has the ability to surprise in the most triumphant and euphoric way possible.

2022 . Long admired for the carefully chosen cover versions of songs that have been part of their repertoire from the very beginning, Cowboy Junkies Songs of the Recollection consisting of nine covers both newly recorded and curated from previous album projects. Michael Timmins recalls, InchLong before we were musicians, we were music fans. We didn't grow up sitting around the kitchen table playing instruments and harmonizing. We grew up sitting around the record player listening to each other's record collections and having our minds blown. This was the passion that we shared. Our goal has always been to create music that took hold of the listener the way that this music took hold of us. These are some of the songs and some of the artists that found their way into our lives and eventually into our repertoire over the past fifty years.Inch This inspired, and inspiring, collection features tracks from David Bowie, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Vic Chesnutt and The Cure.