Platinum & Gold Collection (Cowboy Junkies album)

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Platinum & Gold Collection
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ReleasedSeptember 9, 2003 [1]
Genre Alternative country, blues rock
Length53:15 [1]
Label RCA
Cowboy Junkies chronology
Open Road
(2002)
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(2003)
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Platinum & Gold Collection is a 2003 compilation of Cowboy Junkies songs recorded for RCA Records. The album is the second compilation of the band's singles released by RCA in just three years, following 2001's Best of the Cowboy Junkies , and is part of the label's Platinum & Gold Collection series of discount-priced singles anthologies. All songs are drawn from the band's RCA Records albums: The Trinity Session , The Caution Horses , Black Eyed Man and Pale Sun, Crescent Moon .

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Michael Timmins, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)From the albumLength
1."Sweet Jane" Lou Reed The Trinity Session , 19883:37
2."Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)"Michael Timmins, Margo Timmins, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart The Trinity Session4:30
3."Anniversary Song"  Pale Sun, Crescent Moon , 19933:13
4."This Street, That Man, This Life"  Black Eyed Man , 19923:16
5."Misguided Angel" The Trinity Session4:55
6."A Horse in the Country" Black Eyed Man3:52
7."The Post" J Mascis Pale Sun, Crescent Moon4:39
8."Murder, Tonight, in the Trailer Park" Black Eyed Man4:32
9."I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" Hank Williams The Trinity Session5:27
10."Seven Years" Pale Sun, Crescent Moon4:56
11."Dreaming My Dreams with You" The Trinity Session4:33
12."Powderfinger" Neil Young The Caution Horses , 19905:45
Total length:53:15

Fan reception

RCA assembled this greatest hits album without participation with the band, using the albums in the RCA catalog. Junkies fan sites suggest boycotting the album, and support the purchasing Waltz Across America instead. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Platinum & Gold Collection - Cowboy Junkies". AllMusic. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 369. ISBN   9780857125958 . Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  3. "Cowboy Junkies Other Releases including download only releases from Latent Recordings | Platinum & Gold". JunkiesFan. Retrieved May 5, 2017.