The Captain & the Kid The Captain & the Kid The Captain & the Kid is the twenty-eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 2006. It is his second autobiographical album with lyricist Bernie Taupin, picking up where 1975's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" left off. "The Captain & the Kid" chronicles the events in their lives over those subsequent 30 years. "The Captain & the Kid" reached No. 6 in the UK, a considerable improvement over the performance of John's preceding "Peachtree Road" in 2004, which peaked at No. 21. It reached No. 18 in the US, before quickly
The Wilderness (Cowboy Junkies album) The Wilderness (Cowboy Junkies album) The Wilderness is an album by the Canadian alt-country band Cowboy Junkies, released in 2012. It is Volume Four of the Nomad Series. This volume is the introspection of winter after "Sing in My Meadow"'s joyful visitation of spring. The album is a return to the folk vibe the band played with in the early 90s and the late 80s. The song-writer, Michael Timmins, "started to think in terms of an album of songs reflecting on the lives of characters I'd written about early in the bands career and bringing those characters 20 years into