Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane - Tonight Show 5/4/89 high quality stereo 

Come on you should have said this was a cover, and not a good one at that!!!

@@alainlaverdure1674 sorry you did not like it. Were you expecting Velvet Underground if a cover disclaimer was needed?

I prefer this studio version, without all the noodling on superfluous instruments. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fa9nN3G2CSg.html

@@alainlaverdure1674 If it's good enough for Lou Reed himself, it should be good enough for you. This cover is rich and haunting. "Reed himself called the Canadian band’s 1988 version “the best and most authentic version I have ever heard.” It’s a funny word, “authentic,” considering the feel of their version was far from the rockin’ version of Reed’s Underground original. But it’s hard to disagree with him. While the song has been covered by countless artists, from Mott the Hoople to Liz Phair, Gang of Four to R.E.M. to Phish, the Cowboy Junkies give it a romance-in-the-stars lifeblood never before heard in those three simple chords. It’s hushed, tender, angelic and simply gorgeous. It’s where the heart overtakes the mind."

@@bugpalThere's plenty of room for both versions (BTW, the "rocking version" was NOT Velvet underground, but Reed solo - see the incredible live album, Rock & Roll Animal). The original version by VU was actually not far from THIS version, but released while VU were still together. That said, while this particular version is definitely beautiful, it pales next to the sparsity of their studio version. I think it would've been better if they hadn't added the accordion.

Is.

She only got more beautiful since then.

Metoo

Margo timmins

you and millions of others

Way cool. 😎🎵

Oof, seen her lately. Not as bad as Jamie Lee Curtis, but hitting the wall and hard.

She turned a song about NY bohemians into a song about girls but it's about love and anyone who's had a heart loves love and who couldn't help but fall in love with sweet Jane.

The Camera loved Margo all the time

The camera had good taste …

I love how she sings...but very valid question

The do that on some live shows

Saw them recently - they started with Bowie's 5 Years and took the roof off! I was rocked back into my seat, didn't expect such power from her.

​@@tynebar saw them late last year, murder in the trailer park was outstanding

@@tynebar I saw them on a twin-bill w/John Prine in Seattle, during this tour. As soon as she started singing the power of her voice just blew me away. Still does.

She was terrified when she performed... when she joined the band she would only sing in front of her brother. The source of that magical, mysterious presentation... along with the world class beauty

89 was full on. Almost killed me!

Playing Metroid on Nintendo, poster of a Ferrari, drinking Pepsi with a twizzler for a straw

I would have appreciated this era much more if people told me how shitty the world would get.

I hated the late-80s, but I sure love this version of this song.

@@Twotontessie Loved the late ‘80s!

Don't worry, that won't be a issue going forward...

Actually... seems shes had a stick up her rear since they first surfaced with this debut... which I had purchased at the time.

Damn right she is.

Mid

Well said!

Waddya think actual cowboy junkies are up to? What had Japan and OPEC just done to the good ol U$A a few years before? Who was U$A prez then? What had just been decided about immigration? What had U$A spooks been up to? What was Halliburton doing in Iran? U$A mortgage rates = 1989, 10.25% ; 1988, 10.38% ; 1987, 10.40% ; 1986, 10.39%.

MO! FO! I'm tired of us getting older and things changing! At least we have every great song ever, available on the internet. Check out Fred Neil

"Something's lost and something's gained in living everyday..." Joni Mitchell In other words, lamenting about what's been lost guarantees you'll miss out on everything worthwhile that's happening in this moment.

Angel Mine is sublime.

life goes on, hang in there dude..

What are you deaf

she's a big fan of Patsy Cline

What is a phone book

Me too

Yep

hahaha you can understand... as though you're just like Lou Reed and have written many songs, been famous, and other want to emulate your work... get over yourself there Princess you haven'ta clue

@@slowery43geez,lighten up. Did you miss your nap?

@@slowery43 Don’t forget to take your pills, grandpa

@@slowery43 It's a pity your grumpy mood was not affected by this beautiful song.

Wow, I was 17 when I saw "Natural Born Killers" and heard it for the first time

I was 18 in 1989 and also fell for the song.

@@tzt1182 good memories

Nothing but phony country music in that area now

Thank you Mark!

Such apt adjectives to describe this version of the song. Margot Timmins vocals were certainly haunting and ethereal and the whole arrangement and performance of the band was beautiful.

The entire album is heavenly.

i missed the fierce guitar[velvet underground] but this rendition is beautuful

you know the two songs don't have the same lyrics?

I recorded this version from the front row ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bUu_qauFAk8.html

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Who played the accordion?@@davidleebohrer5549

Amazingly enough you are correct, check out the recent live version, she's even more beautiful now, listen to "Helpless" from the recent show

@@lancer9339 No, she's not. Here, in her youth, vibrate, clean, innocent, and charming is when she was at her best.

Oh, man. Back in the 90s my little brother said the phrase “make-out sesh”. My other brother and I would always say, “Where are you coming from, a sweet make out sesh?” Or any number of variations. Hahaha, still to this day make fun of him for it. We’re in our 40s now. Man, I miss the 90s. People make fun of me for being right wing, they always say I want to go back to the fifties. No, I want to go back to the 90s.

Cowboy Junkies was my and my now ex-wife's every hookup night soundtrack in college back in '95-'96. This brings back memories!

Nobody needs to hear about you and your cousin.

@@smelltheglove2038 Cars, music, and women. The 90’s were peak in a lot of ways

I agree...taped this from the front row ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bUu_qauFAk8.html

4 times...😁

Check the live version I shot at Music Box Supper Club from the front table. Totally different arrangement

Listen to the entire album, "The Trinity Sessions" and then listen to "Trinity Revisited". So good.

I thought the same thing.

The Cowboy Junkies had an incredibly unique sound. Carson was simply regurgitating what countless critics had said. Lou Reed, who wrote the song, thought their version sounded unique and original. It wasn’t weird, it’s weird the two of you were too simple to understand that playing a cover doesn’t make you unoriginal, ya rubes.

@@elena7069 They had, no doubt, a unique and original sound as a band. I still have the original vinyl I bought from back then. What I think about what Johnny Carson said, and what I still think and value in this band, are 2 entirely different things. To lump the 2 together is just silly and quite a reach. Nice try though. Seems as though an imaginary chord was struck in you to make that response to my comment. Glad you got that off your chest. I hope you feel better. I really think you're making progress and I'm proud of you.

Thank you for watching

Before covid, Margo would always do a meet and greet outside of the tour bus after the show. I've met her numerous times...we share a birthday (Jan 27)!

why are peeps over the age of 40 so obsessed with creating a binary between when a single editing tool existed, before and after? it's like on every single video from VHS or whatever, someone's gonna make some arbitrary boomer remark about auto-tune being the fall of musical civilization. much more important would be the telecommunications act of 1996, which changed privatized radio forever and made it safe, bought homogenized bullcrap, and the advent of digital workstations in general. much bigger factors in music changing. auto-tune is hardly even used in obvious ways anymore by music that means anything to anyone, except for very subtle pitch correction. big effing whoop. not the separator of good and evil, musically speaking.

its still fun when you do have talent

Found the autotune person! There's one in every video performance lol

@@DanielBoonelight wrong .auto tune has ruined popular music .the end

Quit being raycist

I find it repulsive.

Well, the studio recording was basically a live recording, without an audience, minimal knob twiddling and straight off the floor, minimal miking. I think that's what got the attention in the first place.... The Trinity Sessions.

“Trinity Sessions” was essentially a live album without a live audience.

Contrast it with the version I posted from the Music Box Supper Club