Cowboy Junkies
Lay It Down
Real Gone Music
Released 10/06/23
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Although Cowboy Junkies’ excellent new album Such Ferocious Beauty (2023) remains in heavy rotation here at Albumism HQ, we couldn’t be more excited about the forthcoming reissue of the band’s beloved sixth studio LP. Only available in CD, cassette and digital formats to date, Lay It Down (1996) has now received the vinyl release it has always deserved, courtesy of Real Gone Music.
Originally released by the famed Geffen Records label and featuring a handful of the group’s finest, most melodic compositions in the form of “Angel Mine,” “Come Calling (His Song")” and “A Common Disaster,” Lay It Down remains an enduringly resonant work of art and an indelible component of the band’s prolific discography.
“While Lay It Down is certainly different and more varied in structure than its precursors, it nevertheless contains many of the band’s signature strengths,” Albumism’s Justin Chadwick suggests in his retrospective tribute. “Namely the symbiotic connection between Margo Timmins’ soaring, sublime vocals and her older brother Michael’s superb, evocative lyrics, which, when bolstered by their bandmates’ masterful musicianship, yields songs that examine the human condition with unequivocal grace and beauty. And of course, their fair share of melancholy.”
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