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, released on October 8, 2007. It is a remake of the Junkies' most famous album, '' The Trinity Session''. The new album was recorded in the fall of 2006 at

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's Church of the Holy Trinity, the same venue where the original album was recorded.

Album production

In order to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Junkies defining album, ''The Trinity Session'', the band decided to revisit and reinterpret the album, seeing what twenty years of performing experience would bring to the songs. In order to expand upon the goal of reinterpreting, the Cowboy Junkies invited three guest musicians whose work and lives were affected by the Trinity Session, and whose work has affected the Cowboy Junkies. Guest musicians on the 2007 album include

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and

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. Each takes the lead vocal on one of the album's songs (Adams on "200 More Miles", Merchant on "To Love Is to Bury" and Chesnutt on "Postcard Blues"), and shares vocal and musical duties on other tracks. Jeff Bird, a session musician who has appeared on virtually every Cowboy Junkies album but has never been credited as an official band member, also appears. In order to create the same atmosphere, they kept rehearsal to a minimum, getting together for a few hours a day before the recording. The guest musicians worked with the band to re-imagine the songs, making suggestions, trying out fresh nuances. The album was also packaged with a performance film, ''Trinity Revisited'', and a documentary film, ''Trinity Session Revisited'', both by directors Pierre and François Lamoureux of FogoLabs, who produced and recorded the album and the films. Although the album was not recorded with a single microphone like the original album, François Lamoureux aimed to be faithful to the idea, so he got a Holophone H2-Pro surround microphone and put the musicians in a circle, and augmented the recording with close-miking using ten

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KSM141 mics. The Holophone surround mic picked up too much ambient sound from the church, and after mixing, only about 10 to 15 percent of the sound came from the surround mic. In 2008, Trinity Revisited was nominated for 5 Gemini Awards and won 2: Best Sound in a Comedy, Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series and Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series. The same year, it was nominated for Music DVD of the Year at the Juno Awards. In Canada, the album and DVD were released on Strobosonic. In concerts to support the album, singer

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substituted for Merchant in some shows.

Track listing

Personnel

Cowboy Junkies * Margo Timmins – vocals *Michael Timmins – guitar *Alan Anton – bass *Peter Timmins – drums Additional Musicians *Jeff Bird – mandolin, harmonica, violin, fiddle *

– lead vocals (tracks 7 & 10), backing vocals (track 2), guitar, drums *

– lead vocals (tracks 2 & 6), backing vocals, piano *

– lead vocals (tracks 3 & 11) Production *Francois Lamoureux – producer, director, mixing, DVD mastering at FogoLabs *Pierre Lamoureux – producer, director * Peter J. Moore – audio mastering at the E Room *Denis Normandeau – mixing *Eugene O'Connor – director of photography, lighting *Johnny McCullagh – lighting *Yves Dion – editing

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2007 albums Cowboy Junkies albums Cooking Vinyl albums