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Kathleen Edwards - 98% match to Cowboy Junkies

11 July 1978, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Singer-songwriter Edwards spent much of her childhood in South Korea or Switzerland owing to her father's work for the diplomatic core. Trained on classical violin as a youngster, Edwards launched her musical career in the late 90s as a... Read more

Lucinda Williams - 97% match to Cowboy Junkies

26 January 1953, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Her father, Miller Williams, is a professor of literature and a professional poet, but it was her mother, a music graduate, who influenced Lucinda the most. After a period spent travelling in the early 70s, Williams concentrated on... Read more

K.D. Lang - 93% match to Cowboy Junkies

Kathryn Dawn Lang, 2 November 1961, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She prefers the lower case appearance of her name because "it's generic and unlike Cherry Bomb, it's a name, not a sexuality". This farmer's daughter from Consort had become a skilled pianist and guitarist by... Read more

Emmylou Harris - 88% match to Cowboy Junkies

2 April 1947, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Harris was raised in North Carolina, later attending the University Of North Carolina on a drama scholarship. Starting as a folk singer, Harris tried her luck in the late 60s in New York's Greenwich Village folk clubs, making an album for... Read more

Nanci Griffith - 87% match to Cowboy Junkies

6 July 1953, Seguin, Texas, USA. This singer-songwriter brilliantly straddles the boundary between folk and country music, with occasional nods to the mainstream rock audience. Her mother was an amateur actress and her father a member of a barbershop quartet. They passed on... Read more

The Be Good Tanyas - 84% match to Cowboy Junkies

Hem - 83% match to Cowboy Junkies

The majority of bands to emerge from New York City, USA during the late 90s seemed to all be cut from the same musical cloth (namely 70s era CBGB's bands such as Talking Heads, the Ramones and Television), but there were exceptions to the rule, such as the roots/folk quartet,... Read more

Patty Griffin - 83% match to Cowboy Junkies

16 March 1964, Old Town, Maine, USA. This US singer-songwriter made her name on the Boston/Cambridge folk scene in the mid-90s, leading to a major label recording contract with A&M Records. Griffin began writing songs as a teenager but at this point in her life was more... Read more

Gillian Welch - 82% match to Cowboy Junkies

2 October 1967, New York City, New York, USA. The daughter of Hollywood television composers, Welch was raised in California where she achieved a degree in photography at Santa Cruz College. She later attended the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, where she met her musical,... Read more

Blue Rodeo - 81% match to Cowboy Junkies

This country rock band from Toronto, Canada, have often found themselves fielding comparisons with the Band, although in truth their sound owes as much to Buffalo Springfield and the Beatles. They deserve wider recognition outside Canada where they remain one of the country's... Read more