Cowboy Junkies performed the first of two sold-out shows at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.
. Yet, the music was also achingly sad, soaked in longing, regret and, more than anything else, quiet desperation. It’s that disparity between delivery and content that makes the Junkies’ music so impossible to resist.
The Canadian outfit — which features Margo Timmins and brothers Michael on guitar and Peter on drums, as well as bassist Alan Anton and longtime touring multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bird — kicked off the first of two sets with a powerful run through Neil Young’s “Don’t Let It Bring You Down,” which can be found on the Junkies’ 2022 all-covers album, “Songs of the Recollection.”
The group next offered up it’s best-known cover — and overall most popular song — the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane,” a hypnotic, slowed-down version that the tune’s author, Lou Reed, reportedly adored.“Well, we are back on the road again,” Margo Timmins told the crowd. “And we are out here doing what we’re always doing — trying to sell records. We’ve got a new one — ‘Such Ferocious Beauty’ — so we are going to push that one on you.
“I woke up this morning, didn’t know who I was,” Margo Timmins sang. “I looked at the room, I didn’t know where I was.Following two more new ones — “Circe and Penelope” and “Hard to Build, Easy to Break” — the Cowboy Junkies ventured back to 1990’s brilliant “The Caution Horses” for a powerful rendition of “Where Are You Tonight?” and closed the set with yet another cool cover, the David Bowie gem “Five Years” from 1972’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
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