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Cowboy Junkies have come full circle
Surprisingly, vocalist Margo Timmins — always singing as if lost in a dream anyway — comes off as being tired on
By John Pacenti
The Associated Press
While most guitarists these days seem to fall somewhere between Eric Clapton and Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies has opted for understatement.
Timmins hasn't sounded so sexy since "The Trinity Session."
Timmins approaches the six-string the way jazz legend Miles Davis approached melody: less is more. There is something heart-wrenching about the simple riff Timmins creates for "Ring on the Sill" and "White Salt."
two of the standouts on the Cowboys" "Pale Sun, Crescent Moon" compact disc.
In many ways, the Toronto quartet — consisting of two brothers, a sister and their best friend — has come full circle on their fifth release. The disc contains the stark sounds of the Junkies' 1988 breakthrough "The Trinity Session" mixed in with the blazing blues rock of the band's 1986 release. "Whites Off Earth Now!!"
some of these songs. When the work takes a decidedly edgy turn on "The Post," Timmins simply doesn't belt it out, even if she is lost in the mix.
The songs here are much different than the country feel of 1992's "Black-eyed Man," which found Timmins coming into his own as a songwriter. The guitarist's newest tunes are haunted and opt for a singular theme; many seem to be lost on a lonesome, dark stretch of highway.
By the end, though, she has found the voice for "Pale Sun, Crescent Moon." On one track, titled "Floorboard Blues," she croons, "Look under his floorboards, Mama. I don't trust his silly girn. He's got a beat up Rambler, Nebraska plates and I ain't getting in."
Timmins hasn't sounded so sexy since the "The Trinity Session." And on "The Hunted," a devastating song about rape, the aptly talented vocalist narrates the tale of modern women stalked by the animal male at every turn: "Quick to your phone dial 911. Invite a strange man into your home who'll be carrying a gun."
While the cutting-edge band Nirvana recently tackled the same topic sloppily, Michael Timmins' song catches the fear, the hopelessness and the outrage. Guest guitarist Ken Myhr, who adds a bit of David Glmour string-bending throughout the disc, matches the desperation, and the tune is one of the Junkies' finest and most poignant.
ELVIS: Fan's book tells all about the king
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And, of course, there was that voice. The next day she went over to pick up a few souvenirs. And she solemnly promised, "Elvis, I'll be back."
was just gorgeous to look at."
Back she went, catching a total of 72 shows in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Oakland, Calif., San Francisco and anywhere else she could get to.
Elvis himself began to notice Rosaaen, and kissed her about half a dozen times at the many shows she saw. He even gave her a nickname.
Appropriately, the King called her "Rockin Robin."
In the mid-'70s, she began to get serious about her collection. After Presley's death, it became her life's work. Now, Rosaaen has almost every album Elvis ever released. And the international pressings. And the reissues.
She has Elvis mugs, plates, baseball cards, posters from his movies.
has a few bottles of Elvis wine.
There are over 500 books on Elvis.
Elvis playing cards. The complete bubble gum card collections, years 1956 through 1978. There is Elvis jewelry. There are Elvis busts. She even
She has a lock of Elvis' hair on her wall and a rose from his casket. She once dated an Elvis impersonator. Her interest in Elvis borders on a religion, complete with bodily relics.
She has photographs of Elvis — 80,000 of them at last count, she says, all in chronological order. She has so much memorabilia crammed in her apartment, she hasn't eaten off her table in six years.
She is now ready to take her parttime obsession and turn it into a career. She is searching for funding to create an Elvis museum in San Francisco.
The captions give the reader hints about a few of the articles in each photo and dare one to find certain items.
At the moment it is only a dream, but one that Rosaaen cherishes.
The new book is designed to encourage the reader to search out particular pieces in each jampacked picture. In the dizzying array of Elvis lore, there are photos, dolls, bedspreads, buttons, crockery and even an autographed blue suede jacket that once belonged to the King.
Rosaaen says she wanted the book to be unusual, not another run-of-the-mill Elvis memorabilia book.
Does Rosaaen put any faith in the many "Elvis is alive" theories? If he is alive, he turned 59 on Jan. 8.
"Elvis once said music and entertaining was his life," she says. "There's no way this man could ever stay away from what made him happy."
But she believes "his spirit lives through the fans."
She thinks Presley has been maligned, and feels people don't realize he was a humanitarian. "People aren't aware of all the giving that he did."
She says the general lack of knowledge comes from the fact that "all they've ever written was how he was fat and how many pills he took and how many banana sandwiches he ate."
"I think my mission as a fan, for the pleasure he gave me," she says, "is to make people aware of what a great guy he was, and what a marvelous entertainer."
"I miss him," she says. "It doesn't seem like it is been 16 years."
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