| Here Come the Miracles | ||||
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| Released | April 24, 2001 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock | |||
| Length | 81:59 | |||
| Label | Blue Rose Records | |||
| Producer | Craig Schumacher [1] | |||
| Steve Wynn chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Robert Christgau |  [3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Here Come the Miracles is a double album by Steve Wynn. [5] It was released in 2001 on Blue Rose Records. It is the first album in Wynn's "desert trilogy". [4] [1]
The album was recorded in Tucson, Arizona, at Wavelab Studios. [6] Wynn's friends Linda Pitmon (drums), Chris Brokaw (guitar), and Chris Cacavas (keyboards) played on the album. [2]
No Depression wrote that "Wynn’s nineteen-song cycle of a Southern California suspended between the millennium and the apocalypse infuses his literary aspirations with rock ‘n’ roll smarts, as if he's fronting Raymond Chandler's supercharged garage band." [7] The Los Angeles Times called the album "a freewheeling yet self-assured balance of Wynn’s own voice and the influences long associated with him--the darkness of the Velvet Underground, the spaciousness of Neil Young and the oblique introspection of Bob Dylan." [6] The Washington Post called the album the best of Wynn's career. [8] The Cleveland Scene called it "an amazing, visionary double CD, a voyage through the psychic topography of contemporary Los Angeles that taps into and expresses deep fears as well as hopes for redemption." [9]
Songs written by Steve Wynn, except where noted.
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