Ghosts (Cowboy Junkies album)

Ghosts is an album by the Canadian alt-country band Cowboy Junkies, released digitally on March 30, 2020. The album features eight songs that process the loss of the Timmins siblings' mother who died in 2018[2]

Ghosts
Studio album by
Cowboy Junkies
ReleasedMarch 30, 2020[1]
Length30:41
LabelLatent[1]
ProducerMichael Timmins, Alan Anton
Cowboy Junkies chronology
All That Reckoning
(2018)		 Ghosts
(2020)

Album development

Two months after the release of All That Reckoning, Barbara Timmins, the mother of Michael, Margo, and Peter, died.[2] As the band toured to support their 2018 album, the Cowboy Junkies worked on the collection of songs that grew into Ghosts. The band had planned to re-release a remastered version of All That Reckoning as a vinyl double album with Ghosts being the second disc. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the project, potentially into the fall of 2020. The Junkies chose to release the album digitally in the spring of 2020.[2][3]

The album reprises "The Possessed" from All That Reckoning, where it serves as a sparse ukulele break in the middle of songs with fuller instrumentation such as the guitars on "Grace Descends" and "(You Don't Get to) Do It Again" on the front half and "Misery" and the fiddle filled "This Dog Barks" on the back half.[4]

Track listing
Ghosts track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Desire Lines" 5:58
2."Breathing" 3:24
3."Grace Descends" 3:48
4."(You Don't Get to) Do It Again" 4:32
5."The Possessed"Michael Timmins3:22
6."Misery" 2:51
7."This Dog Barks" 3:25
8."Ornette Coleman" 3:21
Total length:30:41

Personnel

Cowboy Junkies

  • Margo Timmins – vocals
  • Michael Timmins – guitar, ukulele
  • Alan Anton – bass, keyboards
  • Peter Timmins – drums, percussion

Production[5]

  • Michael Timmins – producer, engineer, mixed by
  • Alan Anton – producer
  • Peter Timmins – artwork
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References
  1. "Ghosts by Cowboy Junkies". Apple Music. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  2. McLennan, Scott (April 9, 2020). "Music Album Review: "Ghosts" — The Cowboy Junkies Confront Heartbreak and Sorrow". The Arts Fuse. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  3. Timmins, Michael (April 6, 2020). "new album Ghosts streaming everywhere now". Cowboy Junkies. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  4. Laher, Killian (April 8, 2020). "Cowboy Junkies – Ghosts – Album Reviews". No More Workhorse. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  5. "Cowboy Junkies — Ghosts". Tais Awards (in Czech). Archived from the original on April 11, 2020. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
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