An Evening with the Cowboy Junkies

Well the Cowboy Junkies may not be the first group that you think of as jazz or blues, but they do make great music and that is what is important to me.

When Margo sings Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

She owns me. I just fell head over heels in love with her take on that song. Later on "Lost My Driving Wheel" feels like an old traditional blues with it's repeated refrain:

I feel like some old engine that's lost my driving wheel
I feel like some old engine that's lost my driving wheel

Then a Niel Young cover "Powder Finger" and a encore that channeled the best of Lou Reed and the early Velvet Underground with a smoking version of "Sweet Jane".

I came home and put on the Trinity Sessions wondering why I hadn't been playing it every day for the past 20 years.