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cowboy junkies blurb
http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20010821/657847.html
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-- It's a case of he said, she said, everybody said in the sad, sad case
of the Cowboy Junkies. The band, which has excelled in making songs out of
whispers, is being anything but quiet about a new Best of Cowboy Junkies
CD that arrives in stores today. Calling the compilation album "an
insult," they say they were "not even given the courtesy of a phone call"
by their old label, RCA/BMG, about the release. In a message to their fans
on their Web site (cowboyjunkies.com), they're even requesting that people
not put down any money for the album. "If you must have these specific
tracks in this specific order, then find them on the Internet, download
them for free and burn them on to a CD ... you have our blessing." Ouch,
says Keith Porteous, BMG Canada's vice-president of A&R. He thinks the
Cowboy Junkies have tied up the truth with a lasso, and he's saying so by
posting his own response on the band's Web site. "What the Cowboy Junkies
have said is untrue, and personally insulting," Porteous writes, insisting
that he spoke directly to "Graham," the husband of Cowboy Junkies
frontliner Margo Timmins and the band's legal advisor. A source close to
the band tells me, however, that when Porteous approached the band, it
wasn't really a formal thing. Apparently, he was over at Margo and
Graham's house on a friendly visit and brought up the idea casually, but
nobody agreed to anything.
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--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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