The Long Journey Home

I've been a fan of Cowboy Junkies since Trinity Session in 1986. I like them so much I went tonight with Ann to hear them play The Pageant in St. Louis. I usually hate going to concerts. I last went, other than to a symphony or chorus, in 1982, before Cowboy Junkies, when I took a van-load of my graduate professors' kids to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas to hear Journey. Ann says I must have been looking for a bump in my grades. The only other group I'd consider going to see is Pink Floyd. It's not that I don't like other bands. It's that I hate large crowds and loud spaces. The Pageant, however, is an intimate venue, and Margo Timmin's voice is a blend of Neil Young's harmonica and Yoyo Ma's cello.