Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second track, "Happy Birthday to Me," is the album's most memorable song. The mellow music is reminiscent of Camper's 1985 and 1986 releases, Telephone Free Landslide Victory and Two and Three. The lyrics show Lowery's genuine songwriting talent. He uses extremely down-to-earth images in rambling narrative form. The images are almost too esoteric; but the in-jokes point to something beyond the text: "I was having a good sleep in my car/ in the parking lot of the showboat Casino Hotel/ I say, I remember you, you drive like a PTA mother/ you brought...
...Cowboy Junkies played for a packed house last weekend at The Orpheum in Boston, one stop on their tour to promote Black Eyed Man, the band's newest album. While the nature of their mellow, bluesy music kept the show from being as exciting and invigorating as most rock concerts, they certainly created the laid-back, soothing atmosphere that fans of their recorded music would expect...
Anyone who hasn't heard the Cowboy Junkies would have a herd time imagining their mix of blues, folk, country and rock that somehow blends to create a mellow, Iyrical sound. For example, their performance of the lulling, romantic "Misguided Angel" resonated with the sweet wail of Bird's harmonica...
...Cowboy Junkies do not play a stand-up-and-cheer kind of concert, but pick up their new album or catch their U.S. tour if you want a relaxing evening of mellow music with a cast of endearing, genuine characters. After the applause had died down, the audience wandered out in a dreamy, lazy mood, their ragged spirits soothed by Timmins' lullabies...
Their first number was "Working at the Carwash Blues," followed by a mellow version of "Blue Bayou...