The Canadian group Cowboy Junkies elected to record Tim Buckley’s Once I Was as their contribution to 429 Records “The Village - A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village”, a fourteen-track tribute to the early-60’s New York folk scene.

“We're big Tim Buckley fans, and there are so many songs to choose from that era, but our manger, Mark Spector, suggested Once I Was," Cowboy Junkies Mark Timmins told Mike Ragogna. "I felt it would fall perfectly into what we can do. I got into Tim in the early eighties, and I would find a record here and there, a lot of his records were out of print. “Right around that time, This Mortal Coil did a Tim Buckley song and had a big hit, so his music percolated into the underground culture again. It comes in and out all the time...he's just one of those guys who I think is timeless. When you listen to his music, he could have easily been doing it today.”

A short clip of the Cowboy Junkies version of Once I Was can be heard at timbuckleymusic com.

A more extensive view of Ragogna interviews with the album artists carried on the Huffington Post can be seen here.

The Village - A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village
Amos Lee - Little Bit Of Rain
The Duhks - It's Alright Ma I'm Only Bleeding
Lucinda Williams - Positively 4th Street
Sixpence None The Richer - Wayfaring Stranger
John Oates - He Was A Friend Of Mine
Los Lobos - Guantanamera
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Violets Of Dawn
Bruce Hornsby - Darlin' Be Home Soon
Rickie Lee Jones - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Shelby Lynne - Don't Think Twice It's Alright
Cowboy Junkies - Once I Was
Rachel Yamagata - Both Sides Now
Rocco DeLuca - Ballad Of Hollis Brown