Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session

thank you, right music in right bitrate )

I already have a purchased copy of this but had to comment . . .

This is a GREAT album. Cowboy Junkies best imho.

Thank you! I also like Cowboy Junkies. She has a nice voice.

What do we have here ... Ah, yes, another newbie doing his first upload for AvaxHome. Congratulations!

"OK.. Be kind.."

Let's see ... no information about the record, no tracklist, correct server, correct password, but most inportant: A wonderful record he selected. Smells like 5 stars.

GREAT UPLOAD!! TNX SERIAL!!!


And here some more information from AMG:

“

Review by Thom Jurek Who says you can't make a great record in one day -- or night, as the case may be? The Trinity Session was recorded in one night using one microphone, a DAT recorder, and the wonderful acoustics of the Holy Trinity in Toronto. Interestingly, it's the album that broke the Cowboy Junkies in the United States for their version of "Sweet Jane," which included the lost verse. It's far from the best cut here, though. There are other covers, such as Margo Timmins' a cappella read of the traditional "Mining for Gold," a heroin-slow version of Hank Williams' classic "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Dreaming My Dreams With You" (canonized by Waylon Jennings), and a radical take of the Patsy Cline classic "Walkin' After Midnight" that closes the disc. Those few who had heard the band's previous album, Whites Off Earth Now!!, were aware that, along with Low, the Cowboy Junkies were the only band at the time capable of playing slower than Neil Young and Crazy Horse -- and without the ear-threatening volume. The Timmins family -- Margo, guitarist and songwriter Michael, drummer Peter, and backing vocalist and guitarist John -- along with bassist Alan Anton and a few pals playing pedal steel, accordion, and harmonica, paced everything to crawl. That said, it works in that every song has its own texture, slowly and deliberately unfolding from blues and country and drones. An example is the Michael and Margo song "I Don't Get It," ushered in with a few drawling guitar lines, a spooky harmonica, and brushed drums. Margo Timmins doesn't have a large range and doesn't need it as she scratches each song's surface like an itch until it bleeds its truth. This is also true on "Misguided Angel," another original where the verses become nearly a round alternating between her voice and Michael's snaky spare guitar lines to fill an almost unimaginable space. The Williams tune becomes a dirge in the Cowboys' hands. It's a funeral song, or an elegy for one who has dragged herself so far into the oblivion of isolation that there is no place left to go but home. Michael's guitar moves around the changes as bassist Anton plays them; he colors the space allowing for Margo to fill the melodic space spot-on, yet stretching each syllable out to the breaking point. For most, this was the Cowboy Junkies debut -- Whites Off Earth Now!! was re-released in the States a few years later -- and it established them firmly in the forefront of the "alternative" scene with radio and MTV. As an album, it's still remarkable at how timeless it sounds, and its beauty is -- in stark contrast to its presentation -- voluminous and rich, perhaps even eternal.

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And the tracklist

01 Mining for Gold Traditional 1:34
02 Misguided Angel Timmins, Timmins 4:58
03 Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) Hart, Rodgers, Timmins ... 4:31
04 I Don't Get It Timmins, Timmins 4:34
05 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Williams 5:24
06 To Love Is to Bury Timmins, Timmins 4:47
07 200 More Miles Timmins 5:29
08 Dreaming My Dreams With You Reynolds 4:28
09 Working on a Building Traditional 3:48
10 Sweet Jane Reed 3:41
11 Postcard Blues Timmins 3:28
12 Walkin' After Midnight Block, Hecht 5:54

To Bully:

Thanks for your congratulations.. Finaly i got it to work when using Opera to up it thru.. Wasnt to bad speed either, just around one sixpack i think... :-))

"OK.. Be kind.."

That means,, Please Bully, help me with the information about the record and tracklist.. :-))

To alejx007:

Thanks for your congratulations. :-)

"sure that next time, Serial will not forget to post it..."
Yes, im gonna do that, but i need some info for include fx biography from amg.. Do i have to break lines, or can i just copy and paste directly to the post..
An user manual for this board are welcome :-)

@ Alejx007 Дата: 13-12-2005 / 21:54

"I recommend it."

OK, then I think I should download it :-)))

"I'm sure that next time, Serial will not forget to post it... :-) "

I'm sure Serial will do. With other people like Nagiants I gave up about this topic, huahuahua ...


@ Serial

"Do i have to break lines, or can i just copy and paste directly to the post.."

Just a simple cut & paste.
And, by the way, there is a very nice PREVIEW button in the publication edittor :-) You can check everything you are doing to confirm it is the way you want it before going public.

"An user manual for this board are welcome :-)"

Inside the publication editor is a button to call the wonderful publication guidelines Avax gave to us. Some people seem to have a bit of a problem because of the Russian language :-))

To alejx007:

Thanks for the help. Learning some new things every day :-)

Eh, that quote-thing, are you gonna start something new at this board.. "Wise words from Canaries" ? :-)))

No i cant guess who wrote, it but i rember it being used to describe digital sound about twenty years ago. :-)

Кстати, последняя песня на альбоме - на стихи Александра Блока :-)

To Phill:

Forstår ikke en dritt av hva du skriver..
Har prøvd å oversette, men er like langt... :-)

@ Alejx007 & Serial

The way you desribe the quote by marking all text of course does work. For longer text I think it is much easier to go the "Bully-Quote" :-)

Just type the tag cut with left and right braces (cannot do it here because it would be interpreted as thml-tag) now paste your text, and finally wirte /cut with the 2 braces. OK, I know many people want to move the mouse all day, but I find it easier this way :-)

Yep, Serial, you're right about the origin of the quote :-) I gave it as an example why you can never get back the original music from a 96 Kbps mp3"pro". I former used the example with the "Hamburger" and the Cow, but some had problems because of the Hamburger parts which are not meat :-)))

@ Alejx

As Serial said, the origin of the quote comes from the fact (i'll try to explain it rather easy), that with every sampling (analog to digital) you only get parts of the anlog signal fitting to the "raster", the sampling rate (we won't discuss pahes etc. here). When the specification for Audio CDs was defined, they decided that a sampling rate of 44 KHz would be high enough, because no human ear can (directly) hear such high frequencies (and because of limited space on a normal CD).

If you check nowadays audio-warez :-) you will find that all professional sfotware supports sampling rates of 192 Khz. Nah, even Bully cannot (directly) hear 192 KHz :-) It would go much to far to carefully explain all reasons. keywords for google would be Harmonics, sampling artefacts, down-sampling / mixing etc.

I also cannot do drawings here. In simple words: Take a sine curve (if you don't know, just imagine the soft round figure of a female breast) from a analog source. Now optical compare it to the curve of a sampled sine (breast) which looks like same from far, but when you look closer, you see many many little stairs in it.

It's same with any 3D game you play on your computer. Diagonal lines or rounds are not real diagonal or round, they have to fit to the raster (the pixels) of your screen. There are tricks for better looking (antialiasing) but its never real. Same with music and digital sound.

OK, Serial, I know that above is not fully correct and complete, but I hope Alejx can understand it this way better.


And to fully confuse Alejx now hehehe: Serial had some luck in improving sound quality by converting low to higher bitrates! Nah, no joke. I trust his ears. But I think it was some side effect of different codecs during conversion, not the way to re-build the cow or bull :-)

What shall i say!!!!

@ Alejx007 Дата: 14-12-2005 / 21:45

"When I'll be older, I want to be like you.... :-)"

You won't :-) Believe someone knowing me better than you :-))

"@Serial Just open your eyes, listen and start to learn ... me too"

ROTFL ... oh Alejx ... you really make my day. How boring was life at AvaxHome without you. And I would pay a sixpack to have seen Serial's face reading this line, hehehe.

Do you remember yesterday when you did the translation text for Nagiants because you did not know that he is the leader of the Brazil gang?

OK, I try to desribe in easy to understand words: Trying to "teach" Serial technical facts of sound reproduction is like sending ships with bananas _to_ the Canary Islands.

Hey Bully,

Thanks for steppin in and makes thing all clear...

:Alejx007 not see< "How boring was life at AvaxHome without you" Well, its long time since i laugh so much of anyone, but you must admit... hes cool, living there on an little irland, packing bananas like his family done for centuries.. must been an real breatrough when he came over the 486 he is using to have fun with us.. Its an true xmas story i think, maybe something for the screen :-)) >Alejx007 not see:

Good night to you master Bully.. heheheh

Really interesting conversation, big fun.

And congratulations for the new uploader! And there is no way to satisfy our old bully with any posting, except his own (Vinyl-Rips). But that's the way God planned it, and our business is to keep a good work and hope, that the master is in well mood to confirm it;);););)

@Serial:
CONGRATULATIONS on your first upload here! You sure did fine. I bungled on my first post, getting all the codings wrong, what a mess. It was only presentable when someone (must be bully, thanks) stepped in to correct it! Thanks for a very nice share (dlg now). I don't have to guess, reading from above it's a must listen.

@ALL
Thought I wouldn't miss much??? Whoa! took me ages to get down to this section:-) As usual great to have a good and fun read from you guys. A nice breasty 'technical' briefing from the 'master' too...:-)

One more time. Congratulations, and Thanks Serial!

@ Serial

I still have the strong feeling that Alejx007 is kidding all of us. When I close my eyes, I see a clear picture of Alejx surrounded by a lot of bunnies on his yacht. With one hand he types on his notebook, with the other hand ... ah, what do I wtite here. Close your eyes and have your own pictures :-))

@ Opfe

"except his own (Vinyl-Rips)"

Arghhhh ... I clearly stated that this was NOT MY RIP :-) And now I even did check my old logs and I can confirm you: What I upped for Mojabe was exactly what I downloaded myself in summer - posted here at AvaxHome. But the greatest fun: It did NOT include a useable cover, so I had to search for it. It took me 31 covers to check until I found a cover of the analog vinyl. Almost all covers available are covers from the CD. And yes, therefore the remastered version now also shows the vinyl cover :-)

And a last word about vinyl rips: Guess you know Monty Python's "Life of Brian". The new version of it replaced "Jehova" with "vinyl rip". :-))

To opfesoft and mojabe,

Thank you, good to be inside.. eh, this is inside?
Well "with a little help from my friends" i managed to go from just an downer to be an upper..
Hope you enjoy what i deliver in the future :-)

To Bully,

about Alejx007.. Interesting theory.. See what you mean.. Been talking whith a few blond scandinavian girls who had their hollyday on the canaries, but they have not used anyone who fit the description of Alejx007 on the beach...
And the bananacompanies havent heard about him either... So you maybe is right..

@ Serial

"but they have not used anyone who fit the description of Alejx007"

Hehehehe. Strange how the mind can influence the typing fingers :-))

@ Alejx007

"Serial (professional musician)"

I never wrote that Serial is a "professional musician" :-) Read again my carefully selected words :-)

"You downloaded a software (Microsoft VinylRipper v3.1 + Serial"

Some inner voice tells me that Serial does not like to be downloaded :-)))

"Any girl can ask for Alejx007 at Canary Islands,"

Really could not have written that better myself :-))
and I thought the word "used" Serial did write was wrong :-)))

OK, my Jethro Tull download did finish. I'll be back.

@ Serial

It's your "first", so I think I should give something back.

Thank bully for removing the frogFU**..
And thank you for the drink. (picture from younger days?) Cheers :-)

@ Serial

"(picture from younger days?)"

Not talking about bananas again, but I can ensure you that I am NOT female :-)

Didn't recognize her?? Can't believe ... Shame on you. OK, here is one more (temporary loaned only - in 24 hours it is back where it belongs.)




If you still think it's me, have a look here:

http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/2005/10/13/big_brother/

Yes bully, shame on me... My excuse is that i took the bottle and drank it all, got tears in my eyes (used to beer) and then i look at the person..
If you... eh, she only had talked to me, that mistake never would have happen.. So next time you offer me an drink bully, please say something :-)

Anyway, thanks for the link. Hope its alive..