Cowboy Junkies — Newport Folk Festival, 2008

Filmed live concert of Cowboy Junkies at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island in 2008, one of the most prestigious folk festivals in the United States. A Canadian band formed in Toronto around the Timmins siblings, Cowboy Junkies marked the late 1980s with the cult album “The Trinity Session”, recorded in a single night inside a church. Their music, at the crossroads of folk, country, blues and alt-country, is distinguished by its hypnotic slowness, hushed atmospheres and the deep, caressing voice of Margo Timmins. On the Newport stage, the band unfolds an intimate, spellbinding set in which Michael Timmins’ airy guitars and the restrained rhythm section create a rare space of contemplation within a festival. This capture conveys the pared-down beauty of a timeless folk concert. An ideal live concert for lovers of Americana, atmospheric folk and intimate songwriting, notable for the quiet class of a band that made restraint a signature and emotion a certainty.