With the release of The Wilderness, Cowboy Junkies complete their four CD collection, 'The Nomad Series.'

The title, The Wilderness, in some odd way seemed to define what these songs were actually 'about': fragility, emptiness, loneliness, beauty, chance, loss, desperation, the delicate balancing act that makes up a life. They are about being lost in the wilderness of age, the wilderness of parenthood, in the wilderness of just trying to find meaning and substance, happiness and truth in one's day to day life. They are about standing alone in the middle of it all, breathing in the cold still air and wondering.