Toronto-born alt-country group Cowboy Junkies is coming to St. Paul. The group was recently on a 40 th anniversary tour, celebrating their formation in 1985, which was promptly followed by the '86 ...

got the most notoriety in America from their cover of The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane," included on their 1988 album release "The Trinity Session." The Canadian-bred group gained further ...

There was only one mic but lots of heart. In the late fall of 1987, Canadian folk rock band The Cowboy Junkies recorded an album at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity. The live-style recording was ...

MARSHALL TWP. – Nobody quite knew how to categorize the Cowboy Junkies when the Toronto band moseyed onto the music scene in 1987. Descriptors like "lo-fi" and "Americana" hadn't been put into use yet ...

Margo Timmins seemed a bit awestruck by the anniversary occasion, still trying to come to terms with the fact that — yes, indeed — the Cowboy Junkies have now been around for 40 years. “We were only ...

The group’s melancholy, laid-back style is exemplified by its popular 1989 reading of Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane,” where the Junkies covered the first-draft version before The Velvet Underground rocked it ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Todd Litton emails a “haunting and hypnotic” cover song from Cowboy ...