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Saw the Cowboy Junkies Friday night at the Carolina Theater in Durham. <\/p>\n
Here's a little free advice: if you're going to a C.J. show, don't eat a big meal right before, and take it easy on the beer, too. Because, when they start their slow-motion version of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry<\/a> (even slower than their Trinity Session version), the last thing you need is a warm sleepy feeling creeping up on you. And don't think you'll be OK because you'll be \"watching\" them - only the bass player actually stands, and he doesn't move or interact with the audience. The guitar player sits and looks at the floor the whole show; the mandolin\/harmonica player spends most of the show with his back to you; the singer sits in her tall chair, singing lullabys and slow sad love songs from her lonesome dream world. She's interesting, but soothing<\/i>. So, with all that not going on, you really don't need any additional sedation. Eat a light meal, instead. I didn't. Should have. Had to fight off the sleepies.<\/p>\n Still, it was a good show. They did a lot of stuff from the Trinity Session and those other early albums - all very nice. I think my favorite was their final song of the night, Misguided Angel, with just guitar, harmonica and Margot. They also did a lot of new stuff. I don't have their last couple of records, and so all that stuff was unfamiliar and, frankly, a little harder to get into - they're still unmistakably Cowboy Junkies' songs, but they've got more of that long, slow, feedbacky, noodly jam in them. But, I've been a fan for a long time, and they didn't do anything to change that. <\/p>\n