The Cowboy Junkies produced one of my all time favorite records in The Trinity Session. Margo Timmins' hauntingly brilliant vocal is simply amazing and the record still holds up two decades later. Interestingly, Junkies bassist Alan Anton confirmed to Earvolution that this multiplatinum masterpiece was recorded on less than most of today's big label "artists" spend on a single day's catering budget.

While the Junkies need absolutely no help in creating their signature sound, the did enlist some friends to record Trinity Revisited, a DVD/CD collection filmed in high definition with 5.1 surround sound, to be released on February 26, 2008 on Latent/Zoë. Ryan Adams, Vic Chesnutt, Natalie Merchant, and "fifth Junkie" Jeff Bird, all sit in for tunes on the new session.

Trinity Revisited is already out in the UK and The Sunday Times wrote, “It's still magic, and the guest stars bring enough variety to make Trinity Revisited complement, rather than just replicate, the original,” and The Sun lauded it as “… celebrating the original without attempting to re-create it…a perfect older, perhaps wiser companion.”

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