According to the BBC, Reed himself called the Canadian band's 1988 version "the best and most authentic version I have ever heard." By William Goodman It’s no secret: Lou Reed, the inimitable Velvet ...

The Cowboy Junkies are one of the most consistently entertaining bands of the last 30 years. Yes, the Toronto-reared act remains best known for its breakthrough effort – 1988’s hushed masterpiece, ...

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 ...

The Cowboy Junkies first came to fame with 1987’s “The Trinity Session,” a strikingly lo-fi effort recorded through a single microphone at Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity. That hushed affair, ...

On the Web: Watch a video of Cowboy Junkies performing “Sweet Jane” from “The Trinity Session” at latentrecordings.com/cowboyjunkies/videos/ When Cowboy ...

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 ...

These Canadian alt-country vets put into practice one of that scene’s most worthwhile suppositions: that there’s fertile creative territory to be tilled by mating vintage country’s twang with more ...

Known for their reinterpretations of other artists' songs since their version of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" caught the ears of Trinity Session listeners in 1988, Cowboy Junkies have ...

“Loaded,” the Velvet Underground’s fourth album, released in November of 1970 and getting the grand box set treatment next Friday to mark its 45th anniversary, was the last to feature Lou Reed. It was ...

Cowboy Junkies formed in Toronto, but on the band’s second album The Trinity Session, they adopted the sound of the American South, blending folk, country, and blues with the garage rock of The Velvet ...