Brown and Fenner were founding members of the Canadian alternative rock group Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s.
[1] That band moved to New York City following their 1995 album Shy Folk in an attempt to break into the larger American market, but broke up soon afterward, with most members returning home to Toronto.
Brown and Fenner opted to stay in New York City, and continued writing and performing as a duo.
"[9] In 2001 and 2002, Brown and Fenner played a number of concert dates to promote the album and raise additional funds, along with artists including Bruce Cockburn, Sarah Harmer, Jason Collett, Barenaked Ladies and Rheostatics,[10] and activist speakers including Maude Barlow and Naomi Klein.
[11] In 2003 they released Songs, a two-CD rerelease of the by then out of print Other People's Heavens and Geronimo, along with a non-album track, "Resist War", which was distributed as a free Internet download.