![]() ![]() 17, “Such Ferocious Duty,” which will be out next spring - seven live albums, eight compilation projects and two extended plays through a handful of record labels, but ownership rights to their masters referred back to them some time ago.Īn unmastered version of “Sharon” was made available to fans digitally a few years ago via a subscription series, but Timmins said the timing was finally right to release it to the general public. In the 32 years since “The Caution Horses,” Cowboy Junkies have released 16 studio albums - they’re finishing off No. Being able to remaster the record using modern recording tools, I was able to bring it into great shape. “And I was thinking, ‘Wow, this actually sounds really, really good.’ The memory has faded of all the turmoil. “I looked at ‘Sharon’ and I started listening to it again,” Moore said. The revival of interest in “Sharon” occurred when Moore remastered “The Trinity Session” circa 2010. “ We were all set to go with it, but then we went out on tour, wrote two more songs and rethought the whole thing.” “The idea wasn’t to walk away with an album, but just walk away with some recordings,” Timmins said. “It’s art and demands a lot of the players.”ĭespite the grind, the Cowboy Junkies liked “Sharon” enough to send it to the record company to be mastered, the final sonic step before a record is manufactured. You can’t make mistakes or you bring everybody down. You have to place everybody the same distance you want them from the mic and work around them … It’s a very organic way of recording and a lot of it is that you have to all play live on the floor. “Recording this way is very position-intensive. It was also daunting for Moore, who took most of the three days to harness the sound he was looking for. “The pedal steel player (Kim Deschamps) had cut the fingers off his gloves so he could still touch the strings and keep his hands warm. “They were tired and … I was asking them to take three days of their spare time to go to this weird, lovely-looking place, but it was cold as hell. “They were playing aggressive and hard because they were on the road,” Moore said. You can hear that perspective within the first few notes of “Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning”: the band is playing loud enough to drown out Margo at times, as opposed to the more relaxed feel of “The Caution Horses” version of the song. And with ‘Sharon,’ we had been on the road a lot with this big seven-piece band, so we were performing more from a live perspective.” “In Trinity Church, the reverb was perfect for what we do. “So it was uncomfortable from a physical point of view and then, from a sound point of view, Peter couldn’t get the sound right and we couldn’t really hear ourselves. The recording was made over three days in April, “but it was freezing cold and they wouldn’t allow us to bring any heaters into the place because it’s a landmark, a completely wood building, easily flammable,” Timmins recalled. ![]() “Some CBC guys said, ‘Wow, you have to check out the acoustics,’ so I made that suggestion to the band.” “We wanted to do a one-microphone recording but not necessarily have the same ambience.”īut Moore was told about the Sharon Temple, a building constructed from 1825 to 1832 by the Children of Peace, an Upper Canada Quaker sect, and rescued from demolition by the York Pioneer and Historical Society in 1917. “Rather than keep it to one environment, like ‘Trinity’ (recorded at Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity near the Eaton’s Centre), the idea was to pick and choose a few different locations and then choose the best recording,” Timmins said. The single-microphone “Sharon” was captured over three days of very trying conditions. The material is an earlier version of “The Caution Horses,” with seven of the songs recorded at the Temple used as prototypes for the latter album. “In the end, we felt like we didn’t really capture it,” he said in a separate interview.īut a somewhat recent listen to the tapes by Moore, then Timmins, convinced them some magic had been preserved.Īs a result, the “lost” album “Sharon” will finally see the light of day on Friday through Sony Music Canada. Michael Timmins was a bit more diplomatic. “It was a nightmare,” said Moore recently over the phone. Moore at the Sharon Temple near East Gwillimbury, Ont. Instead, singer Margo Timmins, guitarist Michael Timmins, drummer Peter Timmins and bass player Alan Anton had planned to deliver an album in the style of “The Trinity Session” - and the quartet’s 1986 garage studio-recorded debut “Whites Off Earth Now!!” - recorded live off the floor by future Grammy winner Peter J. When Toronto’s Cowboy Junkies scored pay dirt with their campfire lonesome sound and 1988 album “The Trinity Session,” 1990’s “The Caution Horses” wasn’t intended to be the followup album to their multi-million-selling breakthrough. ![]()
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