I've posted about Blackie and the Rodeo Kings before and have explained that they're a kind of super-group, comprised of three highly-respected Canadian singer/songwriters: Stephen Fearing, Tom Wilson, and Colin Lindon. This is from a compilation of collaborations with male artists (hence the Kings and Kings - they did a Kings and Queens a few years back), and the collaborator in this case is Dallas Green aka City and Colour, joining in on Tom Wilson's haunting song based on a 2014 novel by Miriam Toews called All My Puny Sorrows, loosely based on what led up to her sister's suicide.
(Coincidentally, Toews got a degree in journalism at University of King's College -- like elder daughter, though obviously about a quarter of a century earlier.)
About a year and a half ago, Wilson premiered the song on the CBC Radio show "q", with Toews listening. You should listen, too. It sounds like a completely different song. Wilson starts performing about four minutes in:
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