Cowboy Junkies only extraordinary album, The Trinity Session, which is now twenty years old, has been commemorated by the band in the form of Trinity Revisited. You can read Pitchfork’s review here. It turns out to be a superfluous track-by-track recreation of the album, recorded in the same church as the original, this time with accompanying DVD and extra musicians.

Ugh.

No, really.. The Trinity Session should have been left to age respectively, because it is a masterpiece. Play it loud and you can hear everything in that church, the reflecting ambience, every brush of drums, every twang or stroke of guitar string, every syllable of Margo’s voice. Each separate and unique, but together bringing a textured intimacy that overwhelms. There’s no need for extra paraphernalia, or visuals – because they’re already in your head. Some still criticise the lo-fi nature of the recording, live to tape, with just one microphone. But that’s the point – that simplicity brings with it fidelity.

The Trinity Session – Amazon UK