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01 – Wrong Piano


02 – Flirted With You All My Life
03 – See You Around
04 – Betty Lonely
05 – Square Room


06 – Ladle
07 – Supernatural
08 – West of Rome
09 – Strange Language
10 – We Hovered With Short Wings
11 – When the Bottom Fell Out




As the second of four releases in their current "Nomad Series", Cowboy Junkies' new January 18 Demons follows up this past year's excellent Remnin Park with this tribute to their late friend, tour mate and musical compatriot Vic Chestnutt. Originally the plan was for the band to back up Chestnutt on a new project, says Junkies founder Michael Timmins, a strategy that was first discussed when Chestnutt guested on the band's 20th anniversary reworking of their classic Trinity album in 2008. Following the death of the the Athens, GA songwriter in 2009, Timmins and the Junkies sketched out the plans for a special commemorative collection of Chestnutt songs and the seeds of the new album were planted.



"We tried to approach Demons with the same sense of adventure that Vic undertook in all of his projects (or at least that is the way his recordings sound)," observes Timmins. "We let happy accidents happen; we tried to invest his songs with the same spirit and the adventure with which they were written, at the same time investing them with our own Northern spin. Exploring his songs and delving deeper and deeper into them has been an intense, moving and joyous experience." From the Crazy Horse-styled distortion of album opener "Wrong Piano" to the wistful desolation of "Square Room" to "West of Rome" -- a song originally pegged as a Junkies cover fifteen years ago but never completed -- Demons brings the Cowboy Junkies trademarked ethereal understatement to Chestnutt's song with love, respect and restraint. A remarkable, inspired collection.

Cowboy Junkies - 人民公園Renmin Park: The Nomad Series, Vol. 1


Label Razor & Tie
Release Date Jun 15, 2010

1. Intro
2. Renmin Park
3. Sir Francis Bacon at the Net
4. Stranger Here
5. A Few Bags of Grain
6. I Cannot Sit Sadly by Your Side
7. (You've Got to Get) A Good Heart
8. Cicadas
9. Interlude
10. My Fall
11. Little Dark Heart
12. Walk in the Park, A
13. Renmin Park (Revisited)
14. Coda


Renmin Park, the first volume in the Cowboy Junkies Nomad Series, which projects an 18-month cycle that will produce four albums, was named for the park where guitarist/songwriter Michael Timmins spent a considerable amount of time while in the process of adopting two children from China. Built on a foundation of loops, conversations, street performances, and other found sounds from the region, Renmin Park arrived in June 2010.

Recording information: 靖江Jingjiang, China.

Personnel: Michael Timmins (vocals, guitar); Margo Timmins (vocals); Guo Xue Ying (pipa); George Gao (erhu); Peter Timmins (drums, percussion).

Audio Mixer: Joby Baker.

Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Tracks have a 'Lost In Translation' feel, mixing captured sounds with grungy blues, dub, and sister Margo's laconic voice."
Uncut (magazine) (p.84) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The lighter touches of the new influences reflect the Junkies in full melancholic majesty..."