Cowboy Junkies

The Trinity Session

RCA Records 8568-1-R 1988 12" 33rpm (Canada)

The Trinity Session is a 1988 album by Cowboy Junkies, their second album.

The music was recorded at Toronto, Ontario's Church of the Holy Trinity on 27 November 1987, with the band circled around a single microphone. The album includes a mixture of original material by the band and covers of classic folk, rock and country songs, including the band's most famous single, a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", based on the version found on 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, rather than the later studio version from Loaded. Also included is "Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)", which is both a cover and an original, combining a new song by the band with the pop standard "Blue Moon".

The album was released in early 1988 on Latent Records in Canada, and rereleased worldwide later in the year on RCA Records. "Working on a Building" and "Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)" did not appear on the Latent Records release. "Blue Moon Revisited" was originally released on It Came from Canada, Vol. 4, a compilation of Canadian independent bands.

In 2007 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series. Also in that year, the band returned to The Church of the Holy Trinity to record a new version of the Trinity Session with guest musicians Natalie Merchant, Vic Chesnutt and Ryan Adams. This new set of recordings was released as Trinity Revisited, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of The Trinity Session.

According to website Acclaimed Music, the album is the 946th most acclaimed album ever released. It was named the 42nd best album of the 1980s by Pitchfork Media in 2002 and the 36th best Canadian album by Chart in 2000. It was also ranked 62nd in Bob Mersereau's book The Top 100 Canadian Albums in 2007. In 2015, the album was named the winner in the 1980s category of the inaugural Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize, an annual Canadian music award for classic albums released prior to the creation of the Polaris Music Prize.

Tracklist

A1  Mining For Gold    Arranged By – James GordonWritten-By – Traditional 1:34
A2  Misguided Angel    Fiddle, Mandolin, Harmonica – Jeff BirdWritten-By – Margo Timmins, Michael Timmins 4:58
A3  I Don't Get It    Harmonica – Steve ShearerWritten-By – Margo Timmins, Michael Timmins 4:34
A4  I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry    Written-By – Hank Williams 5:24
A5  To Love Is To Bury    Written-By – Margo Timmins, Michael Timmins 4:47
B1  200 More Miles    Fiddle, Mandolin, Harmonica – Jeff BirdWritten-By – Michael Timmins 5:29
B2  Dreaming My Dreams With You    Written-By – Allen Reynolds 4:28
B3  Sweet Jane    Written-By – Lou Reed 3:41
B4  Postcard Blues    Harmonica – Steve ShearerWritten-By – Michael Timmins 3:28
B5  Walking After Midnight    Harmonica – Steve ShearerWritten-By – A. Block, D. Hecht 5:54

    Arranged By – Cowboy Junkies (tracks: except A1)
    Art Direction – Pietro Alfieri
    Bass – Alan Anton
    Drums – Peter Timmins
    Edited By [Assistant], Mastered By [Assistant] – Perren Baker
    Edited By, Mastered By – Peter Moore
    Guitar – Michael Timmins
    Guitar, Backing Vocals – John Timmins
    Layout [Original Cover] – Joanne Castrucci
    Photography [Cover Photo] – Noel Archambault
    Producer – Peter Moore
    Steel Guitar [Pedal], Resonator Guitar [Dobro], Guitar [Bottleneck Slide] – Kim Deschamps
    Vocals – Margo Timmins

Recorded live at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto, Canada, November 27, 1987.
A digital recording using only a Calrec Ambisonic Microphone.
An MDI Production, edited and mastered digitally.
A latent recording.

Condition:  LP is Very Good (some visible marks on side 2 with minimal effect on sound), in plastic inner sleeve in a picture sleeve in Good condition (edge wear), comes with outer protector

A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
Jeff Green, e-sales

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