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The Wilderness on sale today
The Wilderness is officially on-sale today at all your favourite sites and stores (including our own). Amazon is offering the album as a digital download for only $5.99 all of this week. They are also selling Demons and Renmin Park for only $5.99 all month. Enjoy the music.
The Wilderness – The Globe and Mail
A very nice review from our national newspaper of record…. You say wilderness; Cowboy Junkies say life – sorrow, beauty, fragility, bleeding, anger, the search and, at some point, the truth. The Wilderness is the final component of the veteran alt-country band’s ambitious four-album project, The Nomad Series. Nomad, as in moving from style to […]
The Wilderness – AOL Listening Party
You can listen to the album for free today on AOL. Enjoy.
The Wilderness – Something Else! review
Another very generous review. If you haven’t bought it yet….heck, you should. Also make sure you check out the upcoming tour dates. This is an album for people who still think Trinity Sessions stands as the Cowboy Junkies’ best recording, but also for those who want to hear how that sound has expanded and matured […]
The Wilderness – Phawker review and interview
Here’s another excellent review of the album. For the full article and a very good interview with Margo please click here. You can pre-order the album today and make sure that you check out our upcoming Tour Dates. Something about the Cowboy Junkies just seems right lately. Maybe it’s the fact that they’ve been writing […]
The Wilderness – Paste review
Here is a really nice review from our friends at Paste Magazine. Pre-orders for the album (with heavy discounts) are still available. Also, we’ll be starting the second leg of The Nomad Tour in a couple of weeks. For the culmination of their four-volume Nomad series, the Cowboy Junkies provide a satisfying set that is […]
Tour Diary – Westhampton Beach, NY (March 10, 2012)
When I woke up today we were parked just off the main street of Westhampton Beach way out on Long Island. Streaming past the bus were moms and dads with strollers and kids; small gangs of teenage girls and teenage boys; roving packs of college males; older moms and younger grandmums in their fur coats […]
Tour Diary – Boston, MA and Philadelphia, PA (March 8 and 9)
Boston (Somerville) It was a very fun night tonight. Thank god, because last night was torture. We drove through the night, up and down and across and over and around the Allegheny Mountains . I lay in my bunk for hours trying to counteract the G’s. I even tried some kind of homeopathic sleeping pill […]
videos from CBC Drive program
Here are a couple of live performances that we recorded and filmed at the CBC studios last month for the program Drive: The music from the entire session can be heard via itunes podcast here.
The Nomad Tour 2012 – Second Leg
We’re headed out to the midwest for Round Two in April and we’ll be in MI, IL, MN, IA, MO, NE, KS, WI and TN. More specifically, we’ll be in Ann Arbor, Evanston, Minneapolis, Davenport, St Louis, Omaha, Salina, Madison, Cincinnati, Nashville, Chicago and Kent. Check here for all the details.