Utopian Ashes is an album, to borrow from William Blake, of songs of experience. Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth’s collection of duets is not a break-up record, but it does tell the story of a married couple facing up to love breaking down, the impossibility of real communication and other unavoidable outcomes of a full […]
Long admired for the carefully chosen cover versions of songs that have been part of their repertoire from the very beginning, Cowboy Junkies release “Songs of the Recollection” on Proper Records, consisting of nine covers both newly recorded and curated from previous album projects. Michael Timmins recalls, “Long before we were musicians, we were music […]
