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

Album development

Two months after the release of All That Reckoning, Barbara Timmins, the mother of Michael, Margo, and Peter, died. 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.
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 " Do It Again" on the front half and "Misery" and the fiddle filled "This Dog Barks" on the back half.

Track listing

Personnel

Cowboy Junkies
Production