A Rare Find
It’s really amazing what you can find on the Internet when you least expect it. This morning I was just glancing over my collection of Cowboy Junkies that I’ve poured into my iTunes library. And I remembered an old bootleg tape I have probably stashed in storage somewhere that was called “Stolen Flowers.” I Googled something or other and scored a hit at The Internet Archive. I hadn’t heard of this before, but it includes a Live Music Archive and included among the detrius is a huge collection of bootlegged Cowboy Junkies performances. Among them, oddly enough, was “Stolen Flowers.” Here’s a cut from the session — it’s a live performance in Boston from 1989 that was broadcast by a local radio station — from which it gets its name:
‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
Here’s a second cut from the same session: Sweet Jane
One other cool thing about this is that the group has given their permission for the non-commercial trading of tapes of their live performances. That means that it’s not only okay to download them, but to share them.
