"Cowboy Junkies are an alternative country and folk-rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1985 by Alan Anton (bassist), Michael Timmins (songwriter, guitarist), Peter Timmins (drummer) and Margo Timmins (vocalist). The three Timminses are siblings...'Sweet Jane' is a song by American rock band the Velvet Underground...Lou Reed was often quoted as saying that the Cowboy Junkies' version was his favorite." Wikipedia #musicwomenwednesday#folkrock#CowboyJunkies
With the latter, I noticed while noodling with the intro, that one could probably do a kind of funky Spanish-guitar mashup of "Don't Dream It's Over" and #TheEagles's "Hotel California."
Might need to explore that a bit more. The subject matter kind of works together too.
#GreatAlbums1990s - TOP 20 - #LucindaWilliams – #SweetOldWorld (1992). Balancing her early traditional influences with the country-rock she’d adopt later on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Louisiana-born Williams defined the 90s Americana movement with songs drawn from personal experience and enough drive to appeal to a rock audience. The concluding Nick Drake cover (before his critical resurgence) showed Williams’s awareness of roots traditions writ large.
On the subject of #music, and especially #LiveMusic, I was thinking the other day about various shows and bands I have seen live, and it occurs to me that the shows I enjoyed most were not the huge productions in hockey arenas and similar venues.
It's been the ones in small venues, and bars/clubs.
I've seen some big acts in large arenas - Aerosmith (2x), Kiss, Iron Maiden, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, various others. I enjoyed them all.
It was weird, sitting at the bar and being almost close enough to touch Margo Timmins, the singer - literally about eight feet from me. I could hear her singing directly, in addition to through the PA. #CowboyJunkies
I saw Moxy Fruvous twice in smaller places; good.
There were a ton of others that I don't need to get into. A couple of honourable mentions, though.
The band I saw live more times than any other was Shuffle Demons, a difficult-to-categorize jazz-pop-bop-funk band from Toronto.