Cowboy Junkies - The Wilderness: The Nomad Series, V

Fakten Cowboy Junkies are releasing The Wilderness, Volume 4 of The Nomad Series, marking the conclusion of an ambitious schedule of four releases over an 18-month period. The title, The Wilderness, in some odd way defines what these songs were actually "about": fragility, emptiness, loneliness, beauty, chance, loss, desperation, the delicate balancing act that makes up a life Michael Timmins sums up the band's motivation for taking on such a massive project as The Nomad Series quite simply. "The main reason for wanting to do it," he says, "is that, as we steam through our twenty-fifth year, we feel that we have the energy and inspiration to pull it off."