
Today’s Track Premiere comes from a pair of musicians who have played in what can only be described as legendary bands. Vicki Peterson was a founder member of The Bangles, and later on in the Psycho Sisters, whilst John Cowsill started off playing drums and singing in the family band The Cowsills, and later became a mainstay of the Beach Boys touring band, playing guitar, piano, and finally sitting at the drum kit for over two decades playing an average of 180 concerts per year. They’re preparing a new album – ‘Long After The Fire’ – for release and today’s premiere is taken from it.
Speaking of today’s song John Cowsill told Americana UK that “The first song Vicki and I ever sang together as a duo was ‘A Thousand Times.’ It was at the Bill Cowsill Benefit Show. In 2000, when I was preparing to go out on my first tour with the Beach Boys, Bill had come down to visit me in Ojai, CA, and we sat around together while I was learning the Beach Boys’ guitar parts. Bill would sing with me while I was rehearsing. Afterward, we started singing songs like ‘A Thousand Times,’ ‘Deliver Me,’ and ‘If I Were You.’ It was wonderful. I find it very fitting that this is one of the main songs that was always going to be a no-brainer to include on ‘Long After The Fire’. The recording sounds beautiful and I love all the old-fashioned lyrics too.”
Vicki Peterson added that “’A Thousand Times’ is favourite of mine off of the Blue Shadow’s album called, ‘On The Floor Of Heaven’. I got to know this song very well because Susan Cowsill used to perform it with our mutual Continental Drifters band member, and her then-husband, Peter Holsapple. Beautiful song about fidelity and resisting temptation.”