The album was called Trinity Sessions. The year was 19 It was the second album recorded by Cowboy Junkies, made in a Toronto church (Ontario’s Church of the Holy Trinity), with a single microphone placed in the middle of the room, and the band around it.
Imagine the joy when I found out that the album was being recorded again, some twenty years more experienced, at the same place. The script was identical, the same church as a studio, and Natalie Merchant, Ryan Adams and Vic Chesnutt as reinforcement. ”Trinity Revisited” is a magic album, and Sweet Jane is more intoxicating than ever, with the introduction that looks as if it has survived watching the movie “Natural Born Killers” and returned us the song that was there.
Maybe it was the song about Elvis that made me listen to the album, but the verso of Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane” has tied me to it. And there was no way for us to ever break up. Even before I knew who Hank Williams was, I hummed his “I’m so Lonesome I could Cry”.
That is how I easily exchanged the windy Herzegovina winters for an American prairie as probably there is none in America. And I was the lone cowboy with the red horizon in front of me and Americano in my heart, searching for something that would never have a name, but id worth every wandering.