​Vicki Peterson, John Cowsill (from the album Long Time After the Fir

​Vicki Peterson, John Cowsill (from the album Long Time After the Fir

​Vicki Peterson, John Cowsill (from the album Long Time After the Fire available on JoviWorks/Label 51 Recordings/Flatiron Recordings) (by Danny McCloskey)
Husband and wife duo Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill offer a beautifully crafted love letter to John’s siblings, Bill and Barry Cowsill. Both brothers have passed away, and the recent release from the couple, Long After the Fire, collects songs written by both Bill and Barry. The album opens with a hearty dose of twang, with John Cowsill taking the lead vocal, and sharing that ‘I love how the track swings. It kicks ass. I get to pretend I'm Elvis or Dwight Yoakam on this one. It has the type of twang and is a hoot to play live. While recording, I remember trying to practice a double shuffle on drums in the studio on this one, but I couldn't get it down, so what you hear is the single shuffle. My brother Bill would've wanted the single shuffle the listener hears on the recording. He would not want what Bill would call a 'Hollywood Shuffle', where the drummer swings the shuffle beats on the snare drums instead of just playing the backbeats on the 2 and the 4’. A dreamscape melody wraps around “Come to Me” where Vicki Peterson takes the lead for the story. Long After the Fire hears Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill trading vocals and blending in harmony seamlessly. A true partnering of voices.
Claiming a long music business pedigree, both Vicki and John have enjoyed careers as crucial members of numerous bands. A founding member of The Bangles, Vicki Peterson has remained part of the band through inception, break-up, and reformation as well as joining sister-in-law Susan Cowsill for multiple projects, including the Continental Drifters and The Psycho Sisters. John Cowsill began work as a full-time band member at seven years old when he found himself sitting behind the drums for his family’s band, The Cowsills. He has been a part of The Beach Boys touring band for twenty years and both Vicki and John have been included on multiple high-profile projects including Tom Petty, John Doe, The Go-Go’s, Hootie & The Blowfish (Vicki) and Bob Dylan, The Mama’s & The Papa’s, Jan and Dean, Harry Chapin, and Mickey Dolenz (John). 
The duo’s debut, Long After the Fire, delivers a wide range of styles, presenting the tracks as intelligent Pop music. A Country touch inhabits “Vagabond” as a determined beat backs the Rock’n’Soul of “Sound on Sound” while a slow-dance heartbeat guides the crooner asking “Is Anybody Here” and a Rock’n’Roll groove drives “Downtown”. A beautiful message of love is the muse for “When Heart Collide” as Long After the Fire watches taillights fade in “Don’t Look Back” and counts “A Thousand Times” on a honky tonk sway as Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill exit the album singing of mortality in “Ol’ Timeless”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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