The Trinity Session

It's wild how they covered so many different kinds of songs and somehow every one of them sounds like the same song

4/10

Not bad but kinda boring. 2.5 stars

Not bad. Some was beautiful and some I didn’t like.

Slow Country Folk being a sparse, haunting blend of country, blues, and folk, carried by slow tempos, spacious arrangements, and hushed, intimate vocals.

Eh

It’s fine but really really boring

Started listening this thinking that I was about to discover a new genre (let's say modern dark country), really interested on the first songs and even adding the album to my "Albums for driving" infamous list. But, as it always happen, I lost interest after 3-4 songs due to uninspiring songwriting. In short, the idea is great, but I wasn't able to connect with the songs.

gives a kind of cool, smooth blues feel. whole thing is generally too sleepy for my taste but I'm glad to have given it a listen.

A bit snoozy

Take perfectly good country songs, and make them slower and all sound the same.

If I havent’t rated the album yet, it means I’m still sleeping

It was okay pretty much same rhythm over and over not really my thing

Kinda shit

I was expecting country, and I got 50s rock vibes with an angelic female vocal performance. A little twang, a little blues, if only my parents were into this, the nostalgia would take it through the roof. It's not a bad listen at all, it's just not gonna be on my rotation any time soon. 2.3/5

First track was incredibly boring and had me considering abandoning, but stuck it out to Blue Moon which was excellent and sort of helped me ‘get’ the rest of the album. 2.5 rounded down

I wanted to like it but it wasn't my thing

Boring

This started off quite well with Mining For Gold, but the rest of the songs didn't grab me at all. It's so slow that I found myself silently willing them to speed up!

Well I guess someone has to make the funeral music. The comment section for every song is filled with people lamenting their dead friends and relatives. The bluesey tracks are alright. I Don't Get It and Walking After Midnight are the highlights. Otherwise a bit bland.

Not my vibe but it's okay

Very slow burn, not my thing 2/5

I was so ready to hate this but dammit if it wouldn't be nice to have on in the background on a calm, chill night. Singer can sing that's for sure.

I've got nothing bad to say about this album, but also there was nothing of note on this entire album.

Meh

Dios esperaba que prospere pero casi me pego un cuetazo

El bajo sonaba piola, como que a la mitad del disco cambia algo en como suena

I started out prepared to like this album id never heard before but it dragged on and on and I just wished someone would put put it out of its misery.

Well I only previously knew their cover of Sweet Jane, which I still think is a great cover. What I was not prepared for was how unexciting this album is. I guess the older I get, the more I don't have patience for albums like this. It was so hum drum, like nothing was really happening, just whistling Dixie so to speak. The better songs on the album we're the cover songs. But most importantly where are the quintessential albums of the 80s.

A bit too slow for me

Based on the band name and the art work I was expecting a hard rock band. I was expecting to be unimpressed. I was very wrong about the first part but I was still unimpressed..

‘I fell asleep while walking’ should be the title track.

Mellow. Not my jam but impt nonetheless

It just doesn’t grab the attention, even Sweet Jane seems to just fade into the background with the first note. Sorry.

Is it folk? Rock? Blues? IDK but i'm bored

I think this kind of music is better enjoyed live. I imagine the vocals would cut through better enjoying it in some dimly lit bar where you can try and vibe with it. As it is, it’s some well produced but ultimately boring music. The occasional instrumental section cut through differently but I wouldn’t go as far to say I enjoyed it.

Cool recording of some interesting music. Can't really fault the performance but it's slow, morose, and I'm afraid I found a whole album of it quite boring. Solid example of great musicians coming together, making skillful music, and producing something impressive but dull.

This one had a great reputation and I often heard about it so Inwas looking forward listening to it, but I can’t say that I understand the hype surrounding it. This alt country that borderlines on slowcore without being moving or even engaging. The best song is a VU cover, so that says a lot.

I was expecting something a little bit more... upbeat, with a name like that. Not really my kind of stuff, even though the Twin Peaks vibes kind of hit sometimes.

adri: 5, not my cup of yeehaw mar: 5, boring

Was really excited about this one, especially after the first 20 seconds of the opening track. Saved it for when I could appreciate it. Totally disappointed. Way too slow, unremarkable and nothing super memorable. It's like overly slow, smooth blue note jazz or something. It's not awful, but it's not what I expected and not something I'll likely return to.

wasn't very familiar with cowboy junkies but had heard their name. it's tough because i think their influences are a lot of music that i like a lot. they cover a velvet underground song, they cover a patsy cline song, they cover a hank williams song. that's neat. what's not neat to me is that this album is so godawfully boring. my god. it was a bit of a chore to get through this one. i don't mind subdued music, but this is a bit much for even me. i didn't really find this haunting or beautiful, i mostly found it dull and droning. i wish i liked it better because i can see their similarities with my own taste in music, but man this one wasn't for me.

I tend to listen to my daily selections first thing in the morning as I make and eat breakfast… so this album almost put me right back to sleep. I’m grateful it wasn’t annoying ass country twang, but it was just so low energy I think after song 3 it just kind of disappeared into the background and I couldn’t even remember when the album actually ended.

This has it’s moments but damn. Some of it is boring as af.

2/5

Has its moments but a little one paced

Sounds okay, but it's a bit grim.

Lovely and engaging start with "mining for gold". Drifted into music I'd expect to be live background for a restaurant on a summer's evening. When returning we'd say something like "that was really nice, wasn't it?" To each other whilst realising we had had 2 bottles of wine between us and a strong aperitif.

This album felt longer than 52 minutes. Slow country ballads. There was a bit of edge to it at points - but not enough. It’s all a bit one paced. Sounds like if Norah Jones discovered drugs

Enjoyed the first few tracks but became tedious. Too low energy.

This is very minimalistic country. The singer is good but my rating is low as it's really not my thing (I remember hating this album as a child). Rating: 2

music for junkies. so slow.

For my todays mood this album is way too quiet. Nonetheless I like the jazzy and chilly sound although the voice sometimes is a bit whining. Strong two stars for the Trinity Session. 2,5

Not a fan

I think I would enjoy any of these songs in isolation, but an entire album of it was simply too much for me. I like Margo Timmins voice, but I longed for a little variation.

Today called for something slower and more relaxed — and The Trinity Session by Cowboy Junkies delivered exactly that. It’s a chilled, folk-inspired album with a soulful, moody vibe that makes for an easy and calming listen. The band’s sound is slow-burning and atmospheric, with a few standout moments like Blue Moon Revisited, which stood out as a highlight. While the album has a pleasant overall feel, many of the tracks tend to blur together and aren’t especially memorable. I’d listen to it again, but it didn’t quite leave a lasting impression. Favorite song: Blue Moon Revisited – a lovely, haunting track Least favorite: Several songs didn’t stand out and felt forgettable Album artwork: A classic cover that suits the album’s mood

Dromerig. Ik vind het wel heel saai worden. Misschien leuk voor in een slow cooking restaurant?

Idc

1.5

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Not my kinda thing

This album is mostly just background music, to me. I think they aim for a saloon ragtime thing, but the singer's voice lacks the body or bass to hit the sultry feel that I'd be expecting. I feel like her voice is better suited for the blues songs at the end of the album. Walking After Midnight, classic 12 bar blues, but with a cajun harmonica zest.

Wasn't as bad as it could be! That said, I still didn't like it very much. Just not my style, though I did like when it dipped into being more bluesy.

Something branded as a country/folk album with the word “cowboy” in the title is obviously not gonna be for me, but I didn’t hate it at least. The singer’s voice was incredibly soothing and thankfully not twangy at all. But the whole thing was painfully slow and almost put me to sleep. There were technically separate songs but they all kind of blended into each other.

hmm, was soll mir das jetzt sagen; irgendwie alles und nix

Ok so on one hand this album was very pleasant it sounded good the whole way through. On the other it’s very very soft and mellow and sounds very similar the whole time, to the point where I kind of started tuning it out towards the end. Granted, that samey sound is very pleasant but this album is only barely less than an hour and felt like about thirty years of the same super soft, slow and samey music.

I think it was just too slow for me to find it enjoyable. No change in tempo to keep it interesting for me, just slow. Lead singers voice is nice and I enjoyed a couple portions of songs, but I don't think any song stood out to me as something to go back and listen to.

Interesting voice and aesthetic but overall found it pretty dull. Maybe I need to spend more time with it.

This is very dull

Not really for me. Some depressing, rainy day, slow and dark jams. Good covers. I enjoy the production, the sound created, helps give it that dark feeling

07/05/2025 I had high hopes for this to begin with, but it was just boring.

Mega sleeper. I can get getting down with it though. Will I listen to again: 0%

Decent record, very low-key but the songs are pretty and performed nicely.

Cowgirl junk

As another reviewer pointed out, one's enjoyment of many kinds of music – including this one – is heavily dependent on the context in which it is played. I listened to this while doing dishes, and that was a mistake that I don't think could be repaired by future listens. This album feels extremely slow and understated to the point of shooting itself in the foot in terms of "album flow". Instead of having an up-and-down between high- and low-energy tracks, or perhaps some proggy tempo and textural changes within some of the lengthier songs, Cowboy Junkies select a specific, nondescript genre and roll with it for fifty-three minutes. It's, to put it gently, a slog. Tracks 5 through 7 are particularly bad because they're at similar tempos and have comparable percussive patterns. To Love Is To Bury and 200 More Miles are essentially carbon copies of Misguided Angel – a song with very little to talk about in the first place. The highlight of the album is the vocalist, but her skills are not being put to their best use. She's got a voice suited for up-tempo jazz (maybe), but instead rides the low-energy train for all it's worth without even experimenting a little with starker dynamics, improv, and so on. I do enjoy the two tracks (Mining For Gold and Postcard Blues) that feature a solo vocal for part of the song, but both of them would have worked significantly better when surrounded by a high-energy contrast. In The Trinity Session, soft ballads like these fade into the background as quietly unremarkable noise. 2/5 Key tracks: Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis), Dreaming My Dreams With You, Sweet Jane

Slow country and very quiet songs are not a combination I'm personally a fan of, but it was a good surprise. Lyrics were felt and the songs are filled with soul and its moments are stand out. Not a fan, but a nice discovery.

Good: - Enjoyed the harmonica, always sounds so beautiful. Bad: - To slow for me. I just can't quite find the joy in this one.

This is doing nothing for me. It's not bad, it's just bland.

A bit slow. Incredible voice. Great cover of Sweet Jane. But just a bit too melancholy for my taste. 2.75

An intriguing opening couple songs followed by ten tunes consisting of so-so storytelling and a beautiful voice of insipid nothing.

Album 716 of 1001 Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session (1988) Rating : 2.5 / 5 Alt Country? Meh. Sounds made up. This is a fine listen. Very low key. The production on it is awesome. Great sound. Some nice covers of big songs. Nice album to chill to.

Probably something I'd have put on the CD player when trying to impress a lady and thought she'd not "be cool" with WASPs "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)"

I found it so incredibly boring. I started reading reviews and saw plenty of 5s talking about Sweet Jane being their favorite. I had hope. Nah fam, it's more of the same. On to the next.

Rejected background music for Twin Peaks.

At the start I thought "that will be a 1 if it continudes like this". But it got better. Not that I really like the album, one slow song after another is not my thing. But it grew and in total it's ok. When comparing with albums I gave a "3", I must give a 2 here, though. But if it would be possible a 2.5.

Not bad per se, just pretty boring.

Beautiful songs played and sung beautifully but after about 4 tracks I was bored. Too slow for my liking

Again its not for me

i really wanted to like this but i couldn't stand the voice . je suis sorry

a lethal combo for today's rainy day...

Good lord I did not like this at all. I'm having an irritable week so I appreciate that my dislike for this may be amplified but fucking hell what an absolute beige boring drag that was. Same song 10 times over. And I'm offended by the covers. I particularly hate when artists do covers of absolutely slapping songs and then make them beige. What is the fucking point. Sweet Jane - are you joking? Leave it alone! Look I'd like to give it a 1 star because of how riled I am but I need to save those for truly offensive music, this is narrowly in the 2

That was pretty meh. It has its little niche but I could care less for it unless I need something to listen as falling asleep. I could see the appeal with the soothing tones. I liked the opening instrumentation of Sweet Jane but it deflated to me when the vocals started. Still cool that a country group covered Velvets tho Rating: 2.3

Some downer Canadian alt-country. Slow-paced. Wasn't into it.

5/10

Exactly. Sweet Jane…and nothing else.

Sweet Jane

Quite a slow and downbeat album. I like the singer's voice but the reimagining of various songs in this style doesn't quite grab my attention for 50+ minutes. I have a real issue with covers that just slow down and make the track more dull - it's really not that clever. Their version of Sweet Jane is way worse than the original IMO. Seems to happen in every Christmas advert so maybe they were trailblazers (of a bad thing) I'd listen to the odd song again, didn't hate it but I was a bit bored listening all the way through

Misguided Angel and Sweet Jane are lovely. The rest is a bit croony and plodding for my taste.

++: I Don't Get It, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Postcard Blues, Walkin' After Midnight +: Working on a Building +-: Mining for Gold, Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis), To Love Is to Bury, 200 More Miles, Sweet Jane -: Misguided Angel, Dreaming My Dreams with You 5,5/10

La chanteuse a une très belle voix et la production est excellente, mais c'est tellement monotone et beaucoup trop doux tout le long comme album. Toutes les reprises sont en gros une version plus ennuyante de l'originale. 4/10

This is a weird album, and I have no idea why it's on this list. The music is all fine, and her voice is really nice and she uses it very effectively. However, there are just too many covers of great, well-known songs that are a huge step back from the original. This album just makes me want to listen to Hank Williams and Velvet Underground so I can hear the songs that I like sound good rather than like muzak 2/5 There are nice elements, but this album was irritating overall

Not my genre

Pretty dull to be honest.

I fell asleep. Mining For Gold followed by Misguided Angel is such a smooth transition though, very relaxing and calming.

The Cowboy Junkies are the most, I should like this band but I don’t, I can think of. It just never feels like the songs start. I do think the cover of I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry is the best version of that song though. It benefits from the glacial tempo all their songs are at

Pretty boring, good musicianship

Don't really plan on coming back to anything here, but was alright while it was on

Very slow. Margo’s voice starts to grate after 3 songs as she sounds the same in all of them. While not objectively bad, I really did not enjoy this. Bonus star for the Church acoustics.

A bit too boring for me, also there's no need to revisit 'Blue Moon'.

Just not my cup of tea - nice but not something I’d ever go back to.

ZZZZzzzz....

My thoughts on this album and why it's included on this list can be summed up by the title of track #4.

Not the kind of stuff this cowboy is going to be fiending for.

Nice vibe. Don’t love the voice

If you want to be bored to tears then this is the album for you! Every song sounds exactly the same: slow, quiet, and little emotion. 3/10.

I like the rendition of Sweet Jane and it's all fine but I don't ever freel totally taken in by this.

Slow and quiet. Very misleading name you can't call yourself cowboy junkies and bring out something this understated and sad. Maybe we'd have enjoyed it more if they'd been called the lonesome cowboy or something like that.

bravissima ma mi sta a cala il sonno

I would like to like this, because she's got a lovely voice and clearly they know how to do everything - except record well. "Recorded using a single microphone in a church" is not a selling point - get a studio, pay a producer, make your stuff sound better. It's not rocket science. The tracks I did like though, I liked a lot. The nails-on-a-chalkboard sound of the twangy country slide guitar makes me want to jump out of a window. So the album is going to get a considerable ding for being too country, covering some of the worst Elvis songs, and lacking a sane approach to recording and production.

Lyder helt fint, men jeg har svært ved at se det essentielle i easy listening covers af gode sange 🤷‍♀️

Fun Sweet Jane is incredible. I’d never put it on again though.

heel vreemd album, het is een soort traag country album? De vocals zijn mooi, gezongen door een vrouwelijke zangeres, maar eerlijk; instrumentaal vind ik het een klein beetje saai. Ja, de vocals zijn mooi, maar daarbuiten is dit album gewoon nogal saai en dan voelt ruim 55 minuten echt als een zware dobber. Nee. Hoelanger ik luister naar dit album, hoe meer ik concludeer dat deze muziek écht niet voor mij is. Folk muziek vind ik gewoon echt ontzettend saai. Het is echt nogal slaap verwekkend, er zitten best mooie stukjes tussen, maar het overgrote deel is oersaai... FAVO: Working on a building, Walking after midnight

2.5

I’m like not done listening yet, but wanna see the next album, this is sort of unexciting but also pretty idk.

What a snoozy album. Best Song: Blue Moon Revisited Worst Song: Working on a building

Inoffensive but such a snooze and not at all what I expected from a group called Cowboy Junkies. I’m sure even tone was a conscious choice but I couldn’t enjoy it. High 2.

Shitty melatonin

Too consistently slow for my tastes.

There's a reason why album's need a change of pace

At first I thought this album seems totally non-essential. But then I remembered, not everyone in the world has a lot of exposure to CanCon. So this IS essential, so that non-Canadians can have the experience of listening to it and thinking “Ok, this is a familiar genre, but something is off about it…… oh it’s Canadian that’s the problem here.” It’s just not essential to me, as I’ve been going through this my whole life. The prison of being Canadian.

dark and morose -- like Tennessee in the wintertime. This record sounds like it was made in a world that no longer exists. This record is a time capsule.

I might be biased by the absolutely soulless rendition of Walkin' After Midnight but this was a very sleepy album with the only spark of life being contributed by the harmonica player.

This album is really quiet. Like most of the time it's super soft sounding and then you'll get a guitar part that comes in at normal volume. It was really strange to listen to. Fantastic voice on the vocalist, really nice but way too quiet in the mix. But the music just sort of washed over me and I didn't really feel any kind of connection to it at all. Also the whole record is really slow tempo. Like I felt like it was dragging most of the time. I'm not a country fan and this album didn't really do much to change that. I wouldn't call it straight country though, maybe country-folk or country-adult contemporary. Vocals were absolutely the best thing about this album. 2/5

This is all very pleasant, and so soothing I fell asleep multiple times while it was playing. I wasn't even tired, but the slow, drawn out melodies and the smooth vocal acts like an hour long lullaby. Each song melts into the next with little variation, there are no highlights nor any lowlights.

Hazy, stoned, very, very subdued. It's tough to describe, because it's mostly just blues, jazz, with some country flair. I like the idea of the band recording around one mic, but it does show in the final recording with just how quiet everything is. Favorite track: "Blue Moon Revisited"

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I did not love the country vibe, even if the lead singer did have a nice voice.

This was so disappointing/ I think I thought it was going to be ethereal, idk like The Cocteau Twins maybe. Instead it is just dull, and it all sounds the same. No eemotion, no passion, it was giving absolutely. And the cover versions are awful. Nearly gave it a 1 and didn’t make it through the second listen

Quite enjoyed the first song or two, the singer has a nice enough voice. As it continued it blended into one, the music never loud or interesting enough to pull focus from the singer to the point it started to sound like hotel lounge music. I played this on a bus and I could hear the background noise more clearly than the music, which is partly my fault for listening to it there but I think shoes it needs to at least increase the volume slightly every now and then.

This album is kind of like an aural coma. I can understand wanting to create a cohesive feel for an album but man, the consistent atmospheric, melancholy, low-key vibe for EVERY SINGLE SONG becomes a real drag and is really boring after a while. I hated the Hank Williams and Patsy Cline covers. Sweet Jane is easily the best song on the album. The mellow vibe and the singer's voice suited the song very well. It wasn't horrible overall and it was well executed for what it is but I have no desire to hear it again.

2.5

The Trinity Session is okay but it tries to be intimate and low-key without doing enough to properly invite you in and make you feel, so it just comes across as pretty boring for the most part. If you're going to strip it back and expose yourselves you need to have a singular trait rip through the shrouded darkness, be it angst, passion, pain, seduction, sarcasm, anything, and this lacks it, she has a nice voice but they try to sell it as ethereal and it sort of just meanders along and doesn't get anywhere that interests me, so it's a high 2.

not enough of... anything

This is boring!

meh

2+

Felt similarly to this album as the last one, except this didn’t have a standout song to me. 2 stars based on that.

I'm sorry, I can't do anymore of these slow folk albums. There's nothing I can say about it, except that it's slow and boring. Enough please 😭😭😭

I wanted to like it more but it just never picked up for me. I enjoyed the more bluesy songs and the covers especially sweet Jane!

Mega country, not for me

could i write poetry to this? n

I dunno what I expected but this mellowness wasn't it

Great instrumentalists! I'd give them 5 stars if the vocalist didn't sing every damned song the same.

Such a low key album. Solid for what it is. 2.5/5

I hoped for a lot more from this album. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed. If you want something to put you to sleep, then this is the album for you

Nothing really special to my ears

I've heard of Cowboy Junkies before, but I've never heard any of their music before, so I have no idea what I'm in for on this album. But I see that there are covers of Hank Williams and Patsy Cline on this album, so I'm excited to give it a listen. As interesting as this album was on paper, it didn't live up to my expectations. The concept behind the recording of this album is incredibly unique, and the vocals were really great throughout it, but this album fell flat with me. I was pretty bored listening to this, and I didn't find any of the songs particularly memorable. I was really hoping that the band would add something new to their renditions of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and "Walkin' After Midnight," but I was let down by what I heard. I wasn't familiar with Velvet Underground's version of "Sweet Jane," so while the song was fine, I can't compare it back to the original. The original songs on this album weren't much better than the covers in my opinion. "Blue Moon Revisited" was interesting, but I didn't have any other strong feelings about it. This album wasn't without merit, but it's definitely not my thing, and I'm confused as to why it was included on this list. Great vocals, but there wasn't really much else going on.

I already knew sweet Jane from the natural born killers soundtrack. So, I liked that... The rest is okay, I guess, just wasn't really in the mood for this kind of sound.

Boring. Christ.

It’s always fascinating listening to a “family band” that still likes each other after a long career (eg, Oasis, kings of Leon, CCR,etc). They sounds is good, very Irish folk meets Norah Jones vocal jazz, I mean, 15 years prior to NJ of course. Blue Moon Revisited and Sweet Jane are definitely stand outs, but I remember hearing those when I was a kid. Margo Timmons voice is beautiful and almost ghostly. The hard part is if they came up on the radio I would listen , but it would take a specific mod to look for them.

Sopor-fucking-ific. I guess it could work for something other than making me sleepy, but I am not sure what that might be

A boring and sleepy album that sounds virtually the same from beginning to end. This one didn't do it for me, but it's pleasant enough, hard to recommend unless you are trying to sleep.

At first I thought it would be a nice sort of ballads. It was. But I got pretty bored in the middle. 2.5/5.

Cozy but gets kinda repetitive after awhile

This was a unique album. It starts with the female a cappella song which is a nice intro and showcases her singing ability yet feels very dull and hymnal. Throughout the album it felt like a big cohesive entanglement of indie folk music. It wasn’t bad but just not something I truly enjoyed listening to. 5.6/10

Sad cowboy.

I felt like this album never went anywhere. Nothing really stood out and if you didn't pay attention sounded like one long sad gloomy song.

Boring with only a couple of good moments. They obviously sound exactly the way they want to sound. It's actually quite hard to play this slow. So it's hard to call it bad. But I don't like this record at all. Favorite song: blue moon

I tried to give this a shot but 52 minutes is just too long for an album this one-note. There are some really nice moments here, but I can't say I have any desire to listen to it again in a single sitting.

I didn’t hate it, I just felt that the entire album was incredibly boring. I was waiting for it to be over not because it was horrible but because it’s what I listened to first thing in the morning and didn’t want to fall asleep again. It just wasn’t my type of music- sleepy.

Well. There's definitely a place for this. I just get absolutely nothing out of it whatsoever. Positives...? Lovely sound to it (all recorded live in a large church which is definitely interesting/unique). ... Just terrifically soporific from start to finish and cannot recommend enough to avoid this while driving alone on a highway. 4/10 2 stars.

At times, this band will entertain. Trinity Sessions? So painfully slow! I bought it years ago, told it was special. Years later, unable to find anything remotely special about it. Slow. Agonizingly slow.

This album kind of meandered from start to finish. It's briefly rescued here and there by some extra instrumentation, but it's mainly just a big stew of midrange.

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Really doesn’t age well. It was an important album to join the dots between folk, country and the Velvet Underground. But now it really sounds boring.

Has sweet Jane on it.

Slow and boring. Every song sounded the same. Even the covers sounded the same. She has a very nice voice and it was quite soothing, but not really for me. 2.5 stars

A fairly captivating start to the record but unfortunately it's a little too quiet and meditative for my tastes. Not sure when I'd listen to something like this. Even as background music I'd like something with a little bit more going on.

Conocía el nombre y en su época lo mismo escuché alguna canción, pero si fue así no lo recuerdo. El disco no es lo que imaginaba por el nombre de la banda y en general me he aburrido y me ha parecido demasiado tranquilo. Otro de esos que no es malo, pero no me aportan nada más allá de marcarlo como escuchado.

I'm surprised that, as a person who grew up on a steady intake of CanCon, I've never heard of this band. Granted, this genre wasn't my scene...and mostly still isn't. I didn't hate this, but I would strongly prefer not to hear it again. The lead singer has a nice voice, I just didn't like it or the music.

Mining For Gold Blue Moon Revisited Postcard Blues Bouta make me fall asleep. Very slow. Not bad just nothing notable to say

I don't get it

2.5/5 - relaxing but nothing special or memorable

not for me

2.6 Nope

Very mild campfire acoustics, slight country vibe

I feel like you need to be in a certain type of mood to enjoy this album and I just wasn't really in that mood.

I don’t have much to say against this album, other than it just really didn’t click with me. Like everything about it was okay. And honestly I was waiting for it to be over. 2.5

Wasn't unbearable, but at best it's background music

Being a good Canadian, I really wanted to love The Trinity Sessions. Timmins’ voice is hauntingly beautiful, but the album is just too slow, there is nothing dynamic on it at all 5.1/10 5.9/10

Boring

Cowboys? Not sure. Junkies? Definitely. 1/5 as I was not high.

Very slow. If there had been a tad bit more to it, it might have been pretty great

Inoffensive, just not for me. 2/5

Beautiful songs but just too slow for me. Throw in a banger sometime. Below average as a full album

I really liked the intimacy of the recording for this, but after a few songs it just got very repetitive and was too dreary to enjoy that much

Not really my kind of music.

Boring

Could have lived unlimited lives without ever having to listen to this

Blue Moon vind ik wel leuk, verder een beetje saai Would not buy

I wanted to be generous to this album. I just was bored by it. It’s way too slow. It’s not that I mind slow music. I’m a big fan of slow core so that doesn’t bother me at all really. I was just bored. I kept waiting for anything interesting to happen, there’s no hooks, nothing catchy going on nothing. Even ambient music has more interesting things going on and that’s not a knock on ambient music. I’ll listen to music for airports over and over again for the rest of my life. I’ll never listen this album again. The most interesting thing about this album isn’t even their song and it’s not even a cover that I want to hear again The album is an hour long, but it felt like two, and that was with skipping quite a few of the tracks halfway through. I’m getting tired of writing the question why did I need to hear this before I die?

Another album that is slower than molasses. Dear god I'm falling asleep. Not my jam.

Like many here, knew and loved the Sweet Jane cover but didn’t know anything else. All a bit one tempo for my liking.

Pretty fkin boring.

pace and voice make all sounds feel long and same

Eh. I was not impressed

Definitely not what I was expecting.

I thought the haunted feeling of songs like I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and Walking After Midnight would appeal to me and I wanted to like this one more than I do.

All cowboy, no junkie. Whoever made this list loves them some slow country/folk. I guess this is good at what it’s going for but I feel like I just listened to this lady hold a note for an hour with the occasional harmonica interjection. Snore.

Wasn’t bad it’s just like who tf listens to this

Not great

Meh overall, not what I like

Their cover of Sweet Jane sums Cowboy Junkies. Its superficially quite nice but has no soul at all

The first track is kinda fun but this entire album creeps by at a dull 60bpm. It really just goes on and on and it’s fine but like why are they so bored with their own music

The music was a bit too hokey, and the vocals a bit too breathy and somber, for my taste.

Not good

Soooooooo boring

This album gave me anaemia

Don’t have a lot to say about this one. Not really my sound.

Too slow for my taste.

Meh

Nothing too exciting here, it was quite pleasant but that's all. Would have thought that Fairport Convention would have been a better bet. But perhaps the compilers were American.

Taking music to a new level of mellow. I really did like her vocals, and the bluesy guitar vibe. I’d happily listen to any single track on this album, but the whole album was just too one paced for me. Background mood music. A 2 star rating because I’d listen to this before any of the shite I’ve rated as 1 star, but can’t see myself buying it, or listening to it again.

I remember reading about this band and this album in the NME back in 1988 and I was equally intrigued and put off by the 'alternative country' tag given to it. After all these years I've finally listened to it. AND.... it was okish. I don't mind a bit of slow, but it was pretty much the same all the way through, but not in a disastrously boring way. I assume the compiler of the book is an avid lover of the harmonica with two albums on the trot featuring this noise, but I don't want to keep labouring a point regarding my lack of love for this object. Quite liked the use of the accordion and guitar work with a pleasant enough vocal. Sweet Jane was by far the better cover than the other cringey effort. A middle 2

Though the way it was recorded is pretty dang cool, the results themselves really aren't anything special for me.

Boring. The exact opposite of the Black Eyed Man album. Hang in there peeps...CJ gets better.

I would enjoy this a lot more love than as an album. I lose the beauty of what’s here because I get bored. Margo Timmons does have a sweet voice though. They need to amp it up for me.

Nothing too offensive, just boring

A sorry excuse for an album. Alt-country continues to disappoint. 4/10

Sounds okay on initial listening but very samey after a few songs. 2.5 stars.

I’m sorry but removed from its 80s alt country beginning context, this album is a bunch of deeply unoriginal covers. I feel like the impetus behind its notoriety is simply the place and way it was recorded. Like they had the idea to record it in a church into one microphone and everybody kept patting each other on the back about the concept, despite the end result being a very ho-him, unremarkable. All the press and writing about this album seems focused on trying to convince you that the mojo inherent to its production is enough to make this record more than it is. Maybe I’m just not the right receiver for the message. Nothing ever felt very interesting on this record. Very safe arrangements of very safe cover choices. Boring/10

There were elements I liked and I was really giving with it for the first couple tracks, but ultimately it ended up feeling very same-y and one dimensional. I think that owes to the recording process. Reading up on it this record was recorded live around a single microphone, which is such a cool vibe but I feel hurts this album because of the lack of dynamic changes in the songs. Most of them are roughly the same tempo and style. Every track has every instrument and vocal at the same volume and position in the mix. It really drives what begins as a chill ambient vibe into the ground. I really did want to like this because of my initial impression of “this sounds kind of like the band that plays at the bar in Twin Peaks” and because of my fascination with the recording process , but it ultimately fell flat for me. That being said, I’d still take a track out of context now and again to get that chill vibe. I’d just probably prefer to listen to the original version of one of the many covers if given the choice.

Laid back and gently unassuming. Incredibly boring. I'm sure there's some great stuff going on here, but it's really not for me. I have heard many albums from this list that are outside my comfort zone and I learned to love, but this is just an hour of dullness. I guess it would make good atmospheric music for something where the music was entirely in the background, but it's not something I would ever choose to listen to again. As the album progressed it felt more and more like it was slipping away from me, shyly trying to hide itself, almost as if the volume on my headset was being turned down lower and lower. I was reminded of that game kids play where they make quieter and quieter noises in turn, until it's almost impossible to distinguish between the noise and utter silence. Having an hour of silence might have been preferable here. I was thinking 1 star, but they cover Sweet Jane and that's got to be worth a star maybe. God it's an awful cover though, it sucked all the life out of that poor song. I think 2 stars for the astounding levels of tiredness I felt listening to this. I might have found the perfect music to put myself to sleep with?

Miellyttävää kuunneltavaa, kaunista. Tuntuu silti, ettei ole syvempää sisältöä. Tuntuu puuttuvan muu tunne kuin sellainen perus mukavuus pienellä country-haikeudella. Useampi kuuntelukerta taidetaan vaatia.

I really thought I was going to like that album so much more than I did. I only knew Sweet Jane, which is a really solid track. But the rest all kind of sounded the same. Slow, plodding folk sounding vocals with a little twang to back it up. Might have been good on a head full of mushrooms...

Te rustig en te saai... bij Cowboy Junkies dacht ik eigenlijk ook hele andere muziek.

Niet veel van meegekregen.

Ik begon enthousiast, maar vond het al snel slappe hap.

Nothing unpleasant, just totally empty in texture.

Back in 1988 this album caused quite a stir and was widely praised by hipsters and also audiophiles due to its high quality recording in a church and slow-core production values. Most notable was Margo Timmins haunting voice. This album sounded very fresh back then because no other band at the time sounded like this and their cover of Sweet Jane was also really popular then also. Fast forward 35 years however, and it fails to stir any excitement remotely close to when it first came out.

Probably the most apt band name ever. A bunch of cowboys up to their asses in heroin, that's what they sound like. Atmospheric, dilatant, with a touch of country music you won't find anywhere else. A real rara avis

2/5 Best: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Worst: Postcard Blues

I have a passionate hate for country: alright this wasn't the worst album I have ever listened to but it was by no means good at all. I just wanted to turn it off as soon as the first song started playing. Luckily this album wasn't lvl 1000000 country but instead a little bit tamed down but I still just didn't enjoy it and I don't think I could even if I played it on repeat.

Didn’t make a impression

Interesting Album but not for me

gezellig maar niet wauw

really slow and melancholic inspired by the style of blues but not necessarily the the sound 2.5

That was a drag to get through. I can only picture being at this concert fighting back my head dragging back and choking on my own druel.

“The Trinity Session was like a whisper that cut through the noise -- and it was compelling. It stood out in the midst of the flash and bombast that came to define the late 80's.” Well give me the flash and bombast cause this was melodramatic horse shit 😂🖕🏻

Plain

This isn't bad, it just really isn't for me. I'm less into the soft spoken love and jesus songs and more into the songs about getting shitfaced and yelling at cops. The bluesy songs hit pretty fucking nicely though ("I Don't Get It" being a notable one).

Melkosta läpsyttelyä kunnolla lyömisen sijaan. Tälle saattaisi olla oma aika ja paikkansa, mutta en kyllä nyt keksi milloin ja missä.

Menettelevä paketti

Oh god it's a FAMILY BAND! and they're Canadian but sound like they come from deepest Ireland! For almost an hour! This can go in the fucking BIN! 2/5.

Honestly, not an album I could really enjoy. Vocals were beautiful and there is some great musicianship, but overall it feel flat. It was much too slow, and not enough variation between songs for such a slow album. Some of the mixing wasn't to my taste, specifically one song where the harmonica came in way to hot with no tamed high end and I had to pull my headphones off due to the shrill sound.

Just kinda boring

Avoid!!!

No thank you, I'll pass on that

What an incredibly boring album.

Fell asleep several times. The lead singer's voice is pretty, but the music is SLOOOOOW. Makes you think of the sloth in Zootopia. Definitely not something I will ever listen to again.

just dull, "Sweet Jane" was decent 1.5

What is this album of slow, boring covers? If they are best known for covering Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", why not just assign us Loaded? What is the point of including this on the list?

Too bland for my taste.

tak sie swietnie bawie zr nestem na 2 piosence i albo zaraz usne albo to wylacze ciezko bylo

Not my thing at all.

great to fall asleep to

Gähnende Langeweile! Der pure Horror in der Auswahl ach so grandioser Alben geht weiter.

Boring

Probably great live but found this one dull

No lo escucharía de vuelta. Salvo por la versión alternativa de sweet Jane.

Another one I don't understand the appeal of...

Drit

Wow this was bad. Droning, boring, and uninspired. A downer both musically and lyrically. I don’t use this term lightly, but the singer’s voice is actually offensive. I’m offended.

a mesma música em loop por 53min to fora

Boring.

Джордж сраный ковбой

Yeehaw

1.5

It was, just, slow.

bad.

This was not good

Absolutely not my type of music

Just a slow, plodding, boring experience. The main singer had a nice voice, but that's pretty much it. Not worth your time or mine.

Another reason to shit on the US: country music.

Below average

Cocktail country. Very bland,

- nope - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummer al toegevoegd aan MMMM

This is very dull. It's sort of jazz-y slow country. But the songs are quite dreary (and the selection of songs they cover very uninspired, even their version of Sweet Jane is boring) and the main attraction seems to be the polite guitar noodling in the background. The only thing worse than regular guitar noodling is polite guitar noodling. Barely made it to the end of the record.

This might be a literal antithesis to Cowboys from Hell, which were released at about the same time

Eh. Haven't heard. Not bad, but really got to be in the mood to enjoy/vibe with it.

What a yawn fest. This is the kind of stuff that needs to be excised from this list.

No life in this music.

I did not like this. There’s not much going on and I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d want to listen to this again.

Hjelpes

Well I'm glad that's over it was making me sleepy and angry in equal measure. File under dull.

if I wrapped my head in a sheet soaked with maple syrup, and locked myself in the trunk of a car, that might approximate the experience of listening to this drivel. These chodes are so far up their own asses it's exhausting.

So boring

This is background music, not to set the vibe or anything, but the kind you put on just so that the room isn't so awkward. This is forgettable, mild music with no special qualities as far as I can tell. I am legitimately curious why the writers thought this album was good/influential enough to merit being in this book. 1/5

Meh

Not for me. Slow, boring, lame.