Miles From Our Home [Edited Version]

Miles From Our Home [Edited Version] Artist: Cowboy Junkies
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Clean
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 720642522929
EAN: 0720642522929
ASIN: B000007S8L


Release Date: 1998-06-30

Miles From Our Home [Edited Version]


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Tracks:

  1. New Dawn Coming
  2. Blue Guitar
  3. Miles From Our Home
  4. Good Friday
  5. Darkling Days
  6. Hollow As A Bone
  7. Someone Out There
  8. The Summer Of Discontent
  9. No Birds Today
  10. Those Final Feet

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On their seventh album, the Cowboy Junkies hitch their pony to producer John Leckie (Radiohead, Verve) and inch closer toward the mainstream. As a result, Miles from Our Home's title track might be the group's most upbeat and infectious song ever. Unfortunately, it also means Miles is frequently too pretty and pleasant for its own good. Think more Sarah McLachlan, less Velvet Underground. Still, gloom reigns supreme. The atmospheric "Blue Guitar" and, presumably, the slow, shattered "At the End of the Rainbow" (a hidden track) mourn the late singer-songwriter and Junkie hero Townes Van Zandt. "Those Final Feet," a lilting, Band-like tune, marks the passing of the 94-year-old grandfather of the Timmins siblings, who comprise three fourths of the band. Translated through Margo Timmins's endlessly haunting vocals, such sentiments keep the Cowboy Junkies' cloudy mystique alive. --Neal Weiss

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars One minor flaw -- otherwise excellent.......2000-03-14

This was the first CJ album I had purchased, and it has led me to purchase just about everything they've recorded. It definitely has a fuller, more commercial sound than their other albums. Margo Timmins' voice is extraordinary regardless of the material. She could sing ANYTHING and it would be interesting. The one dud is "Someone Out There," in which the supreme being is referred to by the big "f" word in the unedited version and by what sounds like "booger" or "bugger" or something in the edited version. Anyway, it's a song which is certainly not unlistenable but is unworthy of the CJ. I'd probably just buy the unedited version -- the "f" word is probably less bothersome than whatever she's mumbling in its place. The rest of the album is excellent.

5 out of 5 stars Did Cowboy Junkies re-record for the EDITED version?.......1999-05-27

Love the original version, but am wondering about the edited. Does anyone know if the Cowboy Junkies re-sang this song, replacing the f-word with another word?? What word?

5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......1998-10-31

I dont have the words to explain this. You just have to listen to it. And when you have listen to it once you want to listen to it again and after that you understand.

4 out of 5 stars Outstanding Transition for the Junkies.......1998-08-02

The sound is more layered on this CD than previous outings. HOLLOW AS A BONE just may be the song that introduces the Junkies to a wider audience. I frequently have it on repeat. Margo Timmins' sublime voice bridges the gap between melancholy musing and hard core anguish. Yet, one feels oddly hopeful at the end of a good listen. They're not just for cold gray Sunday mornings anymore...

4 out of 5 stars

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