Cowboy Junkies explore personal politics on All That Reckoning

When listening to All That Reckoning, Cowboy Junkies’ first album in six years, it’s hard not to survey political storm clouds. Vocalist Margo Timmins practically invites us to do so in the dread-laced When We Arrive: “Welcome to the age of dissolution … everything unsure, everything unstable.” But just as the Canadian quartet found widespread fame with a rare hush, even the collection’s most overt protest songs eschew a megaphone.
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