Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Sessions (Analogue Productions) 200gm 2LP

Product Description

· 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

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

FORMAT: 2LP 200 gram vinyl

Tracklist:

Side 1
Mining For Gold
Misguided Angel
Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)

Side 2
I Don’t Get It
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
To Love is to Bury

Side 3
200 More Miles
Dreaming My Dreams With You
Working on a Building

Side 4
Sweet Jane
Postcard Blues
Walking After Midnight

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