Cowboy Junkies go back to church

By Robert Thompson

TORONTO (Billboard) - Some 18 years after releasing their groundbreaking second album, "The Trinity Session," Canada's Cowboy Junkies decided to revisit the set -- and the site where it was recorded.

In November 2006, the band returned to Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity to record and film a new version.

"We'd always avoided going back to the church," singer Margo Timmins admitted, "though we've been asked over and over to do it. It could have been a disaster, because we didn't want to just redo (the album). We wanted to cover 'The Trinity Session' -- have a different sound and make it exciting."

For the one-day session, the band invited guests including Ryan Adams, Vic Chesnutt and Natalie Merchant. Rounder will release the resulting CD/DVD package in the United States in February 2008.

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