Cowboy Junkies bring alt-folk to Bend

Published 9:32 am Wednesday, July 19, 2017

When you’ve been a band for as long as Toronto, Canada’s Cowboy Junkies have (three decades and counting), it can be easy to fall into the nostalgia trap. And the band, made up of siblings Margo, Michael and Peter Timmins and bassist Alan Anton, has spent plenty of the last decade looking back, starting with 2008’s “Trinity Revisited” album and DVD, a 20th-anniversary re-recording of the band’s 1988 breakout album “The Trinity Session.” But even when looking back, Cowboy Junkies find ways to forge ahead, as with 2015’s “Notes Falling Slow,” which featured three previously released early 2000s albums and an added disc of newly recorded outtakes from the same era. And the band has plenty left in the tank: In a recent interview with the Spokesman Review, lead songwriter Michael Timmins teased a new album for February, following up the ambitious, four-album “Nomad Series” (2010-2012) that saw the band expand its amiable folk-rock sound with elements of psychedelic rock and found sounds recorded in China. The will play Munch and Music on Thursday as part of its West Coast tour.

Cowboy Junkies, with Jeff Crosby, Redwood Son: 5:30 p.m. Thursday; free; Munch and 
Music at Drake Park, 777 NW Riverside Blvd., Bend; munchandmusic.com.

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