Last night at Wolf Trap Amphitheater, in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, DC, The Cowboy Junkies and Shawn Colvin split the bill, allowing equal time for a mellow evening of acoustic folk and smokey, simmering, sultry jams.
The Cowboy Junkies are out on the road this summer on the "Long Journey Home" tour supporting their new album One Soul Now, which they played several tunes from.
We even got a Grateful Dead cover. On the Cowboy Junkies Discussion Board Poartes posted a setlist which included: Crescent Moon, Get It, Long Journey, To Lay Me Down, Stars, Notes, Hunted, Anniversary Song, Misguided Angel, Caution Horses, Slide, Trinity, Cause Cheap Is How I Feel, Oregon Hill, To Live Is To Fly, Pity.
Margo Timmins (photo) covered Neil Young's "Helpless" to close the show. Margo introduced the song by saying this is by a "great fellow Canadian songwriter". Delivered in the Junkies characteristically slow burn style, or as washingtonpost.com writer Geoffrey Himes says: "her deep, smoky alto can cap off a conversational phrase by holding out a note with enough vibrato and throaty yearning to cast a mesmerizing spell." "Helpless" also gave the band members including the Timmins brothers and Jaro Czerwinec and Jeff Bird each a chance to solo & shine as they had all evening.
The show opened with Shawn Colvin. Apparently, Colvin & CJ split the bill, each performing for about 90 minutes. Shawn performed a mix of newer and older material including "Sonny" and some tunes from Whole New You. Shawn gave us tuning demonstration about midway that probably went longer than most folks needed. But, all in all, a great double-bill concert at one of the finest outdoor sheds in the country.
An interesting footnote on the tour from the band's Tour Diary regarding the Philadelphia (July 9, 2004) concert:
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