After an undeserved two decades in musical purgatory outside their native Canada, Cowboy Junkies who kicked the genre system up the arse in 1986 with ‘Whites Off Earth Now’ and follow up ‘The Trinity Sessions’ are back, having dumped major label Geffen for the indies with a repackaged repertoire. Not only are they releasing new material by the bucketload, but we can expect four albums in the near future under the guise of The Nomad Series, Volume 3 ‘Sing In My Meadow’ being the current LP under review.

“I’ve thought of it as a few different things at a few different times, but now I’ve come to consider it simply a Western.”
- Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt is a Canadian writer, born in the twentieth century and writing his novels, now, in the twenty-first; his second book however, the Man Booker shortlisted The Sisters Brothers for those who have been living under a literary rock, is an entirely unique chronicle of blood, brotherhood and morality in gold rush-era American west.