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200 More Miles

The Trinity Session's song about life on the road.
Cowboy Junkies, from The Trinity Session (1988)

Released
1988
Length
5:29
Album
The Trinity Session

The album's direction was shaped by the music the band heard while touring the southern United States after their debut, and 200 More Miles was written in reference to their life on the road. Michael Timmins has described sleeping on the floors of promoters while touring behind the debut.

When the band remade the album in the church in 2006, Ryan Adams took the lead vocal. Pitchfork's Stephen M. Deusner said he turned the song into a rolling trucker's anthem. The title was borrowed for a double live CD, 200 More Miles, released in October 1995 to complete the band's contract with RCA before it signed with Geffen.

More songs by Cowboy Junkies

Sweet Jane, Misguided Angel, Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis), Mining for Gold

Sources

  1. The Trinity Session, Wikipedia
  2. Trinity Revisited, Wikipedia
  3. Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Revisited, Pitchfork (2008-02-22)
  4. Band History, Cowboy Junkies Fan Site
  5. Cowboy Junkies, Wikipedia