200 More Miles, Live Performances 1985-1994 [Live]

200 more miles, live performances 1985-1994 [live]

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)
2. 200 More Miles
3. Me and the Devil Blues
4. State Trooper
5. Sun Comes up, It's Tuesday Morning
6. Oregon Hill
7. Where Are You Tonight?
8. Spoken Intro
9. 'cause Cheap Is How I Feel
10. Floorboard Blues
See all 11 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Sweet Jane
2. If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man
3. Pale Sun
4. Hunted
5. Lost My Driving Wheel
6. Forgive Me
7. Misguided Angel
8. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
9. Walkin' After Midnight

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
A fitting end to the band's career with the RCA label (they moved to Geffen in 1996), this collection spans a number of years and musical styles, performed with a surprising amount of energy considering the Cowboy Junkies' notoriously laid-back style. The song choices epitomize the heart and soul of this band, whose languid, dark tones are rooted as much in rock as they are in traditional country & western music. Vocalist Margo Timmins's wonderful renditions of Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" and Hank Williams's "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" are enough to bring the listener to tears; Robert Johnson's "Me and the Devil" and John Lee Hooker's "Forgive Me" conjure some funky blues; haunting covers of Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper" and the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" transport the listener to completely different terrain. There are plenty of originals as well, including an especially moving version of "Sun Comes Up, Tuesday Morning." --Lorry Fleming

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200 More Miles, Live Performances 1985-1994 [Live]
200 More Miles, Live Performances 1985-1994
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • live junk
  • Great Album
  • the hokey pokie really is what its all about
  • OPUS LIVE ONE
  • Great intro to CJ
 200 More Miles, Live Performances 1985-1994
Cowboy Junkies
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  2. Studio: Selected Studio Recordings 1986-1995
  3. Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
  4. Lay It Down
  5. The Trinity Session

ASIN: B000002WVH
Release Date: 1995-10-10

Tracks:

  1. Blue Moon Revisted (A Song For Elvis)
  2. 200 More Miles
  3. Me And The Devil
  4. State Trooper
  5. Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
  6. Oregon Hill
  7. Where Are You Tonight
  8. Spoken Intro
  9. 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
  10. Floorboard Blues
  11. Murder, Tonight, In The Trailer Park

Tracks:

  1. SWEET JANE
  2. IF YOU WERE THE WOMAN AND I WAS THE MAN
  3. PALE SUN
  4. HUNTED
  5. LOST MY DRIVING WHEEL
  6. FORGIVE ME
  7. MISGUIDED ANGEL
  8. I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY
  9. WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT
  10. Bad Boy

Amazon.com essential recording

A fitting end to the band's career with the RCA label (they moved to Geffen in 1996), this collection spans a number of years and musical styles, performed with a surprising amount of energy considering the Cowboy Junkies' notoriously laid-back style. The song choices epitomize the heart and soul of this band, whose languid, dark tones are rooted as much in rock as they are in traditional country & western music. Vocalist Margo Timmins's wonderful renditions of Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" and Hank Williams's "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" are enough to bring the listener to tears; Robert Johnson's "Me and the Devil" and John Lee Hooker's "Forgive Me" conjure some funky blues; haunting covers of Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper" and the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" transport the listener to completely different terrain. There are plenty of originals as well, including an especially moving version of "Sun Comes Up, Tuesday Morning." --Lorry Fleming

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars live junk.......2004-03-11

A perfect live album in most of the important ways: good quality versions of the songs, amusing dialogue between some of the songs and the band finding innovative ways of bringing the most life to the music.

There are most of the songs you want to hear from this band and a few surprises along the way. That dreamy, sultry voice singing such thoughtful lyrics to the accompaniment of harmonious strings is music to die for.

5 out of 5 stars Great Album.......2001-11-23

I'm usually not a big fan of live albums but I like this one. If you're a new llama I recommend it. You won't hear a lot of the songs on this album in concert anymore.

5 out of 5 stars the hokey pokie really is what its all about.......2001-10-20

the cd is betta the best, and the best of my cd's. if you hava got inta the junkas yet, this is a..da' best..a...way to geta started. so pick it up today, ok? peace

5 out of 5 stars OPUS LIVE ONE.......2000-12-17

In 1990, I saw the Cowboy Junkies in Lausanne, Switzerland. They weren't popular then but nevertheless 500 people showed up for the concert. The design of the scene was post-apocalyptical, the four members of the band acted like Bill Wyman's clones and didn't move an inch during the show. At the end of the concert, there were about 50 survivors among the public who, I'm sure of this, have become Cowboy Junkies fans for life.

200 MORE MILES : LIVE PERFORMANCES 1985-1994 will please the fan of the first period of the band with a superb " State Trooper " recorded in october 1986 in front of friends and family members or an hallucinated " I'm so lonesome I could cry ". If you prefer the electrical period of the band, don't worry ! Guitarist Ken Myhr appears as invited guest on numerous performances and delivers two or three great guitar solos specially in " Murder, tonight, in the trailer park ".

The two CD's offer only one until then unrecorded song " Lost my driving wheel " and present a few spoken intros of Margo Timmins that are accurate and very funny. There are no overdubs on the record, the songs are really presented live and the band sounds terrific. I hope you will have the same pleasure that I had with 200 MORE MILES : LIVE PERFORMANCES 1985-1994 and soon consider it as

a CD for your library.

5 out of 5 stars Great intro to CJ.......2000-11-04

CJ has, for me, been a aquired taste. It has taken a while but now I cannot imagine a CD collection without at least one CJ album. This one would a great start. Margo Timmins is without equal and the overall quality of this CD is exceptional. Her voice sounds as if it has been recorded in a studio, not a concert venue. At the risk of repaeting what others have said, the ballads & lyrics of CJ are the soul of this unique band. If only they'd tour down here......!!

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