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 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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

In 1992, in the back of a tour bus, Townes Van Zandt, the late Texas singer-songwriter, serenaded Margo Timmins with an impromptu take on his song, “Flyin’ Shoes.” The song is no sweet pick-me-up. The ...

Cowboy Junkies lead singer Margo Timmins smiles as she greets the crowd at Sunday’s Denver Botanic Gardens show. Photos by Candace Horgan. Two decades have passed since Canada’s Cowboy Junkies ...

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 ...