Cowboy Junkies: Music Is The Drug - The Podcast
Cowboy Junkies have been making music since 1986, when they released their debut album "Whites Off Earth Now!!" More than 35 years later, they are still producing compelling albums and taking that music on the road - pandemics permitting... In this series, the band talk you through their songs, one by one, digging deep into each of them, from right across their career. www.cowboyjunkies.com www.latentrecordings.com
Episodes
50 episodes
50. Sweet Jane
Welcome to the 50th episode of "Music Is The Drug", and we're marking the occasion with Michael Timmins and Alan Anton discussing perhaps the Junkies' best known recording, "Sweet Jane", from "The Trinity Session". A song that was in th...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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23:11
49. Such Ferocious Beauty - Part 3
Welcome to the third part of our special series of podcasts to mark the release of Cowboy Junkies’ new album, “Such Ferocious Beauty”. With the help of music from the album, some demos and an excerpt from an as yet unreleased track, thi...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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1:00:14
48. Such Ferocious Beauty - Part 2
On June 2nd 2023, Cowboy Junkies release their new album, “Such Ferocious Beauty”, an album of ten songs that is up there with anything they’ve done right across their career. To celebrate its release, we’ve got a two part conversat...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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46:09
47. Such Ferocious Beauty - Part 1
On June 2nd 2023, Cowboy Junkies release their new album, “Such Ferocious Beauty”, an album of ten songs that is up there with anything they’ve done right across their career. To celebrate its release, we’ve got a two part conversat...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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56:34
46. Simon Keeper
A morality - or immorality - tale for a modern age "Simon Keeper" looks at how greed can, sometimes, bring business to its knees, and, on the opposite side of the coin, how once a scammer, always a scammer...Recorded originally for "Ope...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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13:30
45. Where Are You Tonight?
"Where Are You Tonight?" was first released on "The Caution Horses" in 1990, was on last year's "Sharon" release which looked at the band's first pass at recording that material, was included in the "200 More Miles" live album and is still ofte...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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13:17
44. Isn't It A Pity?
When Cowboy Junkies were putting together "Early 21st Century Blues" in 2005, their response to a post 9/11 world where the possibility of greater understanding and unity had, as ever been bulldozed by the rush to war, they were looking to find...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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11:26
43. Hard To Build. Easy To Break.
In this episode, it's the turn of "Hard To Build. Easy To Break.", another new song from the band's upcoming album, "Such Ferocious Beauty", to come under the spotlight.Like "What I Lost", the song is a co-write by Michael Timmins...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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15:16
42. Supernatural
Cowboy Junkies were in the midst of recording 'Renmin Park' for what became the 'Nomad Series' when they heard of the sad death of Vic Chestnut on Christmas Eve 2009.Vic had toured with and supported the band on a number of occasions an...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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12:11
41. Follower 2
In our last episode, we talked about a brand new song, "What I Lost", from the band's upcoming new album, "Such Ferocious Beauty". In it, Michael Timmins referenced its thematic links with "Follower 2", a song from "AtThe End Of Paths T...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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15:42
40. What I Lost
"Music Is The Drug" is back for a fourth series and we're starting out by talking about a brand new song, "What I Lost" from the band's upcoming new album, "Such Ferocious Beauty". A co-write by Michael Timmins and Alan Anton, they take...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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21:37
39. My Little Basquiat
Taken from "At The End Of Paths Taken", "My Little Basquiat" is a song that still has its place in the Junkies' live set some 15 years later. built around Alan Anton's bass groove and featuring on of Michael Timmins' favourite guitar solos,
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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14:50
38. State Trooper
Going back to Cowboy Junkies' first album, "Whites Off Earth Now!!", in this episode, Michael Timmins and Alan Anton take a look at the whys and wherefores behind the inclusion of Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper" on a record that otherwise c...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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13:25
37. Ikea Parking Lot
Some songs never quite make it onto albums not because they're not up to standard, but because they simply refuse to fit in with all the other songs. In the olden days, they'd get scooped up and used on the b-side of a single or 12", but in the...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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11:30
36. Breathing
"Breathing" is a song from the "Ghosts" album that was released by Cowboy Junkies as the world began to slip into Covid lockdown in March 2020.Deeply personal, strikingly minimalist, powerfully emotional, we'll just leave it to Michael ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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8:54
35. Renmin Park album special
"Renmin Park" is surely the most unusual album in the Cowboy Junkies' canon, an album that grew from a trip Michael Timmins and his family took to China. Using ideas and field recordings from his time out there, collaborating with Chinese music...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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42:07
34. Southern Rain
Having beguiled the world with their first three albums, as Cowboy Junkies approached "Black Eyed Man", they felt it was time to change things up a little, breaking up much of "The Caution Horses" band, bringing in new musicians, differen...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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17:24
33. Thousand Year Prayer
Back in late 1999, we were thinking less about partying and more about whether or not the modern world was going to collapse at midnight on December 31st, ravaged by the Y2K bug. Sean Connery solved that one for us, as Alan Anton points out in ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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11:08
32. 1979
1979 might not seem an obvious episode for a podcast from a band that didn't start until six years later, but it was a pivotal year for Alan Anton and Michael Timmins as they put together their first ever band, Hunger Project. Insp...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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31:24
31. Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
In this episode, we’re going back nearly 35 years, to a song from “The Trinity Session”, the album that put Cowboy Junkies on the international map. One of the biggest songs from that album was “Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)” which was r...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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14:43
30. Sharon album special
Welcome back to the start of the third series of Music Is The Drug - and they said it wouldn't last...It's not too many bands that can dig into their archives and unearth an entire unreleased album, but that's what Cowboy Junkies have d...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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37:39
29. Early 21st Century Blues album special
The world in tumult. Political instability. War.Yes, that was the far off world of 2005. Thank heavens those times never came again...In the aftermath of 9/11, of the invasion of Iraq, the golden promise of the end of the Cold W...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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31:37
28. 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
"It's the kind of night that's so cold when you spit, it freezes before it hits the ground..."Has there ever been a better opening couplet to a song than that? Nope. That's how "'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel" begins on "The Caution...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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16:23