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Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session (2xLP, 180g, QRP, Analogue Productions)

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  • The multiple Platinum award winning album "The Trinity Session" by the Cowboy Junkies is proof that you can record a fantastic album overnight with very little money: It was on the night of 27 November Recorded 1987 with only one Micro and one DAT recorder using the wonderful acoustics at Holy Trinity Church in Toronto. The album combines a mix of the band's original songs with covers from the classic folk, rock and country genres including the band's hit single, a cover version of "Sweet Jane" by The Velvet Underground

    "The Trinity Session" has been completely digitally reworked and includes two songs not previously included on the album, "Blue Moon Revisited" and "Working On A Building"

    Recorded originally at 44.1kHz/16-bit

    Remastered by original recording engineer Peter Moore, and Cowboy Junkies

    Lacquers cut by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound

    Expanded gatefold edition with additional photos, new cover design as the musicians/artist intended

    New liner notes written by author and music editor Jason Schneider

    Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on gatefold jacket

    Plated and pressed on 200g vinyl at Quality Record Pressings

    "Regardless, sonics are first-rate, as is Analogue Productions' knockout reissue. The sound is exceptionally ambient and airy, with a remarkable sense of depth and a seemingly endless stage. Instruments are creamy-rich in texture, as is Timmins' come-hither vocal style. If you love Trinity Sessions, you'll want this edition." — Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, February 2017. Read the whole review here.

    Read about the making of this spectacular album in Tom Doyle's October 2015 article for Sound On Sound magazine here.

    Cowboy Junkies recorded this spectacular LP as a "live" event Nov. 27, 1987 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto. It was recorded with a digital R-Dat and using only a Calrec Ambisonic Microphone. What this means is the record sounds like the band was playing right in front of you with the perfect ambiance.

    Yes, this is a digital recording. True to our company principles, Analogue Productions in almost all cases reissues recordings only where the analog master tape is available. However, there are rare exceptions that whether digitally recorded or otherwise, a recording is so outstanding it's worthy of the highest quality vinyl reissue.

    Featuring the sultry voice of Margo Timmins, the precise musicianship of her brothers Peter (on drums) and Michael (on guitar), and bassist Alan Anton, The Trinity Session is a spare, evocative, countrified-rock classic. First released in late 1988, The Trinity Session was named "Album of the Year" by The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times described it as "a quiet, special record that challenges traditional music." Rolling Stone declared the album to be "as important as it its inspiring."

    Today, it remains much more than a snapshot of a single day's work captured on tape. So for this deluxe Analogue Productions reissue, we pulled out all the stops. Starting with new mastering from the original session digital tapes by the original recording engineer, Peter Moore. And lacquer cutting by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. The church where the album was recorded was selected on the basis of work Moore had done there with other jazz and classical artists. Using a single Calrec Ambisonic microphone, the results are stunning.

    Next, we kicked up the packaging and content several notches. You're holding a heavyweight old-style tip-on Stoughton Printing jacket, and it has brand-new liner notes by author and music editor Jason Schneider. Schneider is the author of Whispering Pines: the Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band. He's also the roots music editor at Exclaim! and his work has been published in Paste, The Word, The Toronto Star and other publications. The liner notes share space with additional recording session photos, inside and on the back cover. Additionally, the cover has been redesigned to remove the lettering and photo distortion originally applied and make it appear as the musicians/artist originally intended. Lastly, this sonic treasure has been pressed on 200g vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, maker of the world's finest LPs, with stampers plated by master plating technician Gary Salstrom.

    The inspired reworking of both "Blue Moon" and "Working On A Building" reveal the Timmins family to be talented interpreters and insightful neo-traditionalists. Mixing the ambitious songwriting of Margo and Michael Timmins with subdued covers of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane" and Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," The Trinity Session is an exquisite collection that holds up quite well under repeated listenings.

    "The main appeal of The Trinity Session, the Cowboy Junkies' second album, remains its lo-fi sound. The ambient buzz of Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity, where the Junkies recorded the album around one microphone, colors every song, reinforcing the live setting and generating vinyl intimacy even on CD. It's as if the church itself was an instrument, one that Junkies could play pretty well. It allows Margo Timmins' voice to fill your field of vision, simultaneously soothing and unsettling, while her brother Michael's guitar rumbles through the songs, a little louder and sharper than anticipated." — Pitchfork
  • Artist: Cowboy Junkies
    Label: Analogue Productions
    Format: LP
    Units: 2
    Country: US
    Genre: Pop & Rock
  • A1 Mining For Gold
    A2 Misguided Angel
    A3 Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
    B1 I Don'T Get It
    B2 I'M So Lonesome I Could Cry
    B3 To Love Is To Bury
    C1 200 More Miles
    C2 Dreaming My Dreams With You
    C3 Working On A Building
    D1 Sweet Jane
    D2 Postcard Blues
    D3 Walking After Midnight