Cowboy Junkies - Open to Beauty: Best of the 21st Century (2026)

Cowboy Junkies release Open to Beauty, a transparent yellow 3-LP and 2 CD collection of songs from their 21st century albums to date. This ‘Best Of’ set revisits selected tracks from albums Open, One Soul Now, Early 21st Century Blues, At The End of Paths Taken, Renmin Park, Demons, Sing In My Meadow, The Wilderness, All That Reckoning, Songs of the Recollection, and Such Ferocious Beauty. Speaking about the new collection, Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins said: “We are now 25 years into this century, the beginning of which saw us leave the world of major labels and return to making music as an independent band. We figured this was as good a time as any to look back, reassess, and reflect on the music that we have recorded over these past two and a half decades and, hence, Open to Beauty - The Best of the 21st Century.” The enduring power of Cowboy Junkies’ music was in evidence recently when their signature performance of Lou Reed's “Sweet Jane” was featured in the final episode of the Netflix TV series Stranger Things.

Tracklist
CD1
01 Dragging Hooks
02 I'm So Open
03 Small Swift Birds
04 He Will Call You Baby
05 Why This One
06 Notes Falling Slow
07 License To Kill
08 Still Lost
09 My Little Basquiat
10 Blue Eyed Saviour
11 Follower 2
12 Renmin Park
13 A Few Bags of Grain

CD2
01 Wrong Piano
02 Continental Drift
03 Late Night Radio
04 Angels In The Wilderness
05 Staring Man
06 Fuck, I Hate The Cold
07 All That Reckoning (Part 1)
08 Sing Me A Song
09 The Things We Do To Eachother
10 Missing Children
11 Five Years
12 What I Lost
13 Hard To Build, Easy To Break
14 Circe and Penelope