Record Label To Release Posthumous Tom Connors album ‘Canadian IV: The Man Comes Around’

New disc to feature covers of ‘Last Saskatchewan Pirate’, ‘If I Had A Million Dollars’

National record label Canadian Recordings (Formerly Def Canada) has announced its intention to release a posthumous album of Tom Connors songs titled ‘Canadian IV: The Man Comes Around’. 

Canadian IV is the eighth release in Connors’ ‘Canadian’ series, with at least two more expected as soon as Canada’s equivalent to Rick Rubin finishes splicing together words from unrelated takes to make new songs. New tracks featured on Canadian IV include stripped-down covers of ‘Last Saskatchewan Pirate’ and ‘If I Had A Million Dollars’, the latter of which was released as a single late last night on iTunes following Connors’ memorial service. The album will also feature a cover of ‘Hurt’ by Nine Inch Nails, along with the Canadian icon’s final original song, “Sidney the Kidney”. (He ain’t too great/now it’s too late/for the transplant doctor’s magic/so Sidney waits/for his final fate/and they all say it’s tragic).

Canadian IV: The Man Comes Around is due out on Canadian Recordings, March 32nd.