5 Facts About Cowboy Junkies’ The Trinity Session
- The album was recorded in a single overnight session at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto for about $250.
- A single Calrec Ambisonic microphone captured the entire performance, giving the record its distinctive live feel.
- The church’s natural reverb became inseparable from the album’s sound, lending a ghostly quality to Margo Timmins’s whispered vocals.
- That reverb is the reason nobody has ever quite replicated the album’s atmosphere in a studio.
- The low budget and unconventional recording location forced the band to commit to one take, preserving raw, unpolished performances.