I was over at XDU tonight to drop off some CDs for playlist. No new mail so I was looking thru the bins of CDs that no one has wanted to review. And found the Backwards Life of Romeo, a new CD by Cowboys International. Which probably means nothing to most of any of y'all reading this but I think it's pretty fuckin cool. Cowboys International released one album back in 1979, which contained the early new wave dance club standard "Thrash." (Keith Levene and Terry Chimes among the co-conspirators) And that was it for CI. After I started DJing at XDU I tracked down the station's copy of Original Sin and I've played "Thrash" a few times over the years. Did a bit of searching on the internets tonight and discovered that, yes, it's the same Cowboys International. And, yes, 25 years after Original Sin, Ken Lockie has re-started Cowboys International and recorded a second album. Another thing I learned was that Lockie went on to be half (along with Stuart Arbright) of Dominatrix, one of my all-time faves from the early 80s disco-no disco days in NYC. And he also produced the Death Comet Crew stuff.
Here's the Trouser Press page on Cowboys International. And here's a link to the official site.
Oh yeah and the new CD is a bit of alright...