Cowboy Junkies - Open to Beauty: Best of the 21st Century - Yellow Vinyl Record 3LP

Cowboy Junkies spent the 21st century as an independent band, off the major labels and quietly making some of the best music of their career. Open to Beauty gathers 27 songs from that stretch, pulling from Open, One Soul Now, Early 21st Century Blues, At The End of Paths Taken, Renmin Park, Demons, Sing In My Meadow, The Wilderness, All That Reckoning, Songs of the Recollection and Such Ferocious Beauty. Margo Timmins still sings like she is letting you in on something, and the band's slow, smoky version of Americana has aged into something even heavier. As Michael Timmins put it, 25 years in felt like the right moment to look back and reassess. Spread across three transparent yellow LPs, six sides, with the sequencing treated like an album rather than a chronology. A strong entry point if you only know The Trinity Session, and a proper overview if you have been following along.

LP1 Side A
1. Dragging Hooks
2. I'm So Open
3. Small Swift Birds
4. He Will Call You Baby

LP1 Side B
1. Notes Falling Slow
2. Why This One
3. License To Kill
4. Blue Eyed Saviour
5. My Little Basquiat

LP2 Side A
1. Still Lost
2. Follower 2
3. A Few Bags of Grain
4. Renmin Park

LP2 Side B
1. Wrong Piano
2. Continental Drift
3. Late Night Radio
4. Angels In The Wilderness

LP3 Side A
1. F**k, I Hate The Cold
2. Staring Man
3. Sing Me A Song
4. The Things We Do To Each Other
5. Missing Children

LP3 Side B
1. All That Reckoning (Part 1)
2. Five Years
3. What I Lost
4. Hard To Build, Easy To Break
5. Circe and Penelope