| Cowboy Junkies / Renmin Park |
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| Album: | Renmin Park | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Cowboy Junkies | Added: | Jun 2010 | |
| Label: | Razor & Tie Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-11-28 | Pull Date: | 2011-01-30 |
| Week Ending: | Jan 30 | Jan 16 | Jan 9 | Jan 2 | Dec 26 | Dec 19 | Dec 12 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 04, 2011: | Everyday Commotion Stranger Here | 4. | Jan 13, 2011: | Daydream Disaster Stranger Here, Intro | |
| 2. | Jan 27, 2011: | Daydream Disaster Stranger Here | 5. | Jan 04, 2011: | Time Traveler - Best of 2010 Stranger Here | |
| 3. | Jan 15, 2011: | Music Casserole Stranger Here | 6. | Jan 01, 2011: | Music Casserole A Walk In The Park |
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2010-11-22 | ||
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First of several travel-based albums to be released by Cowboy Junkies, this album has flavors of southern China, where M. Timmins’ family spent a few months. The general tone is slow and languid, as most CJ albums are, but there are some unexpectedly lively, noisy, and grinding tracks and sections of songs. A nice step forward for a long-lived band. 1. Park bandstand brass band in the (titular, “People’s”) park, children singing 2. Slow folk song that you would expect from Cowboy Junkies 3. Slow, driving, noisy, churning dirge that you would hardly expect 4. Catchy pop song with a helping of rock ‘n’ noise 5. Plodding 6. Slow but swinging, nice textures 7. Mysterious, beautiful 8. Creepy echo effects that have no set temporal relationship to the vocals being echoed, they just drift before, after, around, over … 9. Distorted Chinese-flavored pop music 10. Run-of-the-mill mid-tempo 11. Slow country twang 12. Slowly slumping forward, Chinese vocals and instruments give this track the most “flavor” of any of these travel-influenced tracks 13. Limp musically but evocative lyrically 14. Teensy phone dial tune followed by “Sorry, no answer” message | ||
| Track Listing |
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