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# Demons

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Demons, the second album in the four-volume Nomad Series on Cowboy Junkies own Latent Recordings. A collection of songs by the late Vic Chesnutt, Demons is described by frontman Michael Timmins as a labour of love that explores Chesnutt s deep and much overlooked catalogue. Demons follows the critically acclaimed first volume of the series, Renmin Park, which The Boston Herald called their most ambitious album yet. The band approached Chesnutt s music with the same sense of adventure that Chesnutt approached his own recordings. Timmins says, We let happy accidents happen and tried to invest his songs with the same spirit in which they were written, but at the same time adding our own Northern spin. Exploring his songs and delving deeper and deeper into them has been an intense, moving and joyous experience. I don t think Vic would have wanted it any other way. Cowboy Junkies strike all the right chords with a performance that breaks through any tragic irony. Margo Timmins voice soars towards the heavens and the music swings in celebration of Vic Chesnutt s life. --No Depression 1/14/11 ...a celebration of both the Junkies and Chesnutt and one of the year's best albums. --The National Post 2/14/11 I wasn t sure what I was going to think about this record, his (Vic Chesnutt) music is sacred but they (Cowboy Junkies) do a great job....a loving tribute --Robin Hilton, NPR 1/25/11

Review: Cowboy Junkies & Vic Chesnutt: A Match Made in Heaven - And when I say "made in heaven," I don't just mean that figuratively. The great singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt is no longer with us, having ended his own life on Christmas Day of 2009. Although Vic was an atheist who had no use for notions of an afterlife, his wonderful, idiosyncratic music lives on. He was an icon to both lovers of Americana and admirers of his drive to create despite disabilities (an accident at age 18 paralyzed much of his body). He collaborated with an amazing spectrum of performers, including Cowboy Junkies (on their 2007 album "Trinity Revisited"), Bill Frisell, Widespread Panic, Van Dyke Parks, Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and Billy Bob Thornton (with whom he acted in the film "Sling Blade"). His songs were covered by the likes of Madonna, R.E.M., Garbage, Cracker, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Soul Asylum. But leave it to our alt-country neighbors to the north to pay him a fitting final tribute. This album is the second of what the Junkies are calling their "Nomad Series." They cover Chesnutt's oeuvre in a classic, low-key, instantly recognizable style. Michael Timmins' guitars, both acoustic and electric, buzz hypnotically as his sister Margo dreamily sings and whispers the dark, introspective lyrics. Piano, organ, bass, drums, mandolin, and other instruments join in to cast a subtle, mesmerizing, often disturbing spell. The first two tracks, "Wrong Piano" and "Flirted with You All My Life," kick things off with anthemic ballads, the latter addressed to death itself. After this the CD settles down into a subdued groove for three acoustic cuts, "See You Around," "Betty Lonely," and "Square Room." The latter song, about a suicidal alcoholic, is one of the bleakest musical statements ever recorded. The album's temperature rises on the grungy "Ladle," falls on the haunting songs "Supernatural" and "West of Rome," and rises again on the rocking "Strange Language," which together with "Wrong Piano" is one of my favorite songs on the album. The penultimate track, "We Hovered with Short Wings," is quiet and sad, while the final cut, the lovely, horn-backed "When the Bottom Fell Out," is prefaced by a recording of Chesnutt himself making an off-color crack at one of his own live performances. This is revelatory music making, a respectful, moving, and truly worthy addition to the Cowboy Junkies' 25-year body of work. Highly recommended.
Review: New favorite. Perfect Chesnutt interpretations. - I'm a huge fan of the late singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt. His voice and "stylings" were highly distinctive--his vocals having perhaps some kinship with Bob Dylan, and his guitar playing, due to his partial paralysis, bearing resemblance to pretty much no one. With such unique sounds, despite excellent lyrics and songwriting, there's some concern that another artist might ruin the songs. Cowboy Junkies demonstrate forcefully on this CD that this need not be the case, and that their take on such songs as "Supernatural" and "When the Bottom Fell Out" are just as potent, just as haunting as they were in the original. If anything, for those who might have been a bit put off by some of Chesnutt's less-than-mainstream-sounding quirkiness, Junkies might have sufficiently smoothed out the sounds to make them accessible to a wider audience. I'll never not listen to Vic in the raw. There is pain and whiskey and gravel in that throat, and the fumbling caress of uncooperative fingers on frets, that no one can or should imitate. But "Demons" consists of songs one could actually put on in the background to a rainy Sunday afternoon and just let wash over you. Vic's voice was never that...forgiving.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cowboy Junkies & Vic Chesnutt: A Match Made in Heaven
*by T***S on February 15, 2011*

And when I say "made in heaven," I don't just mean that figuratively. The great singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt is no longer with us, having ended his own life on Christmas Day of 2009. Although Vic was an atheist who had no use for notions of an afterlife, his wonderful, idiosyncratic music lives on. He was an icon to both lovers of Americana and admirers of his drive to create despite disabilities (an accident at age 18 paralyzed much of his body). He collaborated with an amazing spectrum of performers, including Cowboy Junkies (on their 2007 album "Trinity Revisited"), Bill Frisell, Widespread Panic, Van Dyke Parks, Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and Billy Bob Thornton (with whom he acted in the film "Sling Blade"). His songs were covered by the likes of Madonna, R.E.M., Garbage, Cracker, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Soul Asylum. But leave it to our alt-country neighbors to the north to pay him a fitting final tribute. This album is the second of what the Junkies are calling their "Nomad Series." They cover Chesnutt's oeuvre in a classic, low-key, instantly recognizable style. Michael Timmins' guitars, both acoustic and electric, buzz hypnotically as his sister Margo dreamily sings and whispers the dark, introspective lyrics. Piano, organ, bass, drums, mandolin, and other instruments join in to cast a subtle, mesmerizing, often disturbing spell. The first two tracks, "Wrong Piano" and "Flirted with You All My Life," kick things off with anthemic ballads, the latter addressed to death itself. After this the CD settles down into a subdued groove for three acoustic cuts, "See You Around," "Betty Lonely," and "Square Room." The latter song, about a suicidal alcoholic, is one of the bleakest musical statements ever recorded. The album's temperature rises on the grungy "Ladle," falls on the haunting songs "Supernatural" and "West of Rome," and rises again on the rocking "Strange Language," which together with "Wrong Piano" is one of my favorite songs on the album. The penultimate track, "We Hovered with Short Wings," is quiet and sad, while the final cut, the lovely, horn-backed "When the Bottom Fell Out," is prefaced by a recording of Chesnutt himself making an off-color crack at one of his own live performances. This is revelatory music making, a respectful, moving, and truly worthy addition to the Cowboy Junkies' 25-year body of work. Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ New favorite. Perfect Chesnutt interpretations.
*by S***E on February 25, 2011*

I'm a huge fan of the late singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt. His voice and "stylings" were highly distinctive--his vocals having perhaps some kinship with Bob Dylan, and his guitar playing, due to his partial paralysis, bearing resemblance to pretty much no one. With such unique sounds, despite excellent lyrics and songwriting, there's some concern that another artist might ruin the songs. Cowboy Junkies demonstrate forcefully on this CD that this need not be the case, and that their take on such songs as "Supernatural" and "When the Bottom Fell Out" are just as potent, just as haunting as they were in the original. If anything, for those who might have been a bit put off by some of Chesnutt's less-than-mainstream-sounding quirkiness, Junkies might have sufficiently smoothed out the sounds to make them accessible to a wider audience. I'll never not listen to Vic in the raw. There is pain and whiskey and gravel in that throat, and the fumbling caress of uncooperative fingers on frets, that no one can or should imitate. But "Demons" consists of songs one could actually put on in the background to a rainy Sunday afternoon and just let wash over you. Vic's voice was never that...forgiving.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An honest review from an honest Cowboy Junkies fan
*by A***S on August 25, 2011*

I have been listening to the Cowboy Junkies since I was about 13 years old. Well, perhaps, I should clarify, I took up listening to the Cowboy Junkies when I was thirteen years old, and have owned every album they have made from Whites off Earth Now to Miles from Home. I have seen them live (they were fantastic), and tried to read and listen to every interview with the band that I could possibly get my hands on. Then the 2000s came and I kind lost interest in them, though I have always counted Black Eyed Man as one of the top five albums ever recorded, better than Abbey Road in mind, but maybe not as good Tapestry by Carol King. Anyway, the decade past and I never played one Cowboy Junkies song. I still admired them as a band, but there has been so much great music put out between 2000 and 2010, I really didn't work to keep up with what the Cowboy Junkies were up to. I know they rerecorded The Trinity Sessions, and I have meant to purchase it, but I have yet to get around to it. Anyway, one musician I fell in love with during the last decade was Vic Chestnutt. What a sweet, insightful, thoughtful soul and it breaks my heart to think of all the Demons he must have carried around inside of him during his short, tragic life. He is such a fantastic writer and singer and given that he could only really play 3 chords on his guitar, he played the hell out of the thing. So when I learned the Cowboy Junkies recorded some of VC's music, I had to get the CD. The Cowboy Junkies, and Margo Timmons in particular, have this very lovely way of taking another musicicans' song and making it their own without outshining the original artist. For example, their interpretation of Townes Van Zandt's "To live is to Fly" is phenomenal, but when Townes sings it, it is also a beautiful song, albeit a bit more melancholy than Margo's version. I think that the Cowboy Junkies have produced something very similiar with Demons. If you didn't know that these songs were performed by another musician you may think that it is absolutley amazing that the Cowboy Junkies could have written so many good songs for one album. But if you are familiar with Vic Chestnutt's work, Demons does not leave the listener thinking, "Wow, the Cowboy Junkies have performed these songs so much better than Vic ever did." Perhaps, it is because Margo has a very insightful way of providing a woman's perspective to these male penned tunes that make them this way. I am really not sure. There are definatley some differences between the Cowboy Junkies now and the Cowboy Junkies of my youth. In some songs, Margo sounds a little like Natalie Merchant, which isn't necessairly a criticism, but her voice has definately changed. Perhaps, it has grown/matured, maybe it has aged. I would suspect a little of both. Still, the music is still so lush and beautiful, just as it was when they were young'uns. I know that if the Cowboy Junkies had not been performing Vic Chestnutt songs, I likely would not have purchased this album, but I am really happy that I did. It is special and I hope that the Cowboy Junkies tour in support of it. If they come my way again, I think I would really enjoy seeing them live, at least one last time.

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