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Seasonal Mythologies in the Lyrics of Cowboy Junkies
Rick Wallach
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.09.014
University of Miami (retired), Coral Gables, Florida, USA
In many of his most memorable ballads, Cowboy Junkies lyricist and lead guitarist Michael Timmins combines imagery of seasonal change, of the year, notably of Winter, with religious and mythological references to create richly textured metaphors and analogies of love, loss and anguish. Some of the band’s songs which display these symbolic networks and thematic linkages which we Will consider here are “Winter’s Song,” “’Cause Cheap is How I Feel,” “Crescent Moon,” “First Recollection,” “Sad to See the Season Go,” “Good Friday” and “Ring on the Sill.” We will show that Timmins succeeds not only in rendering vivid tableaux of life in a world where Winter dominates the seasonal round, but also in making those exterior visions, in effect, objective correlatives of the inner lives of the characters of his ballads.
Canadian rock, progressive rock, ballads, lyrics, poetry, mythlogy, folklore, metaphor
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