The Platinum and Gold Collection is a 2003 compilation of Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins , Michael Timmins , Peter Timmins and Alan Anton ....

 songs recorded for RCA Records

RCA Records

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. It was compiled by the label without the band's authorization or approval, and most Internet fansites advise that the album should consequently be boycott

Boycott

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ed by fans. Such sites usually recommend the purchase of the band's 2000 release Waltz Across America

Waltz Across America

Waltz Across America is a 2000 album by the Canadian rock band Cowboy Junkies.A live album, it was released on the band's independent label, Latent Records. Unlike most of the band's albums, it was not released in the United Kingdom...

, or the individual albums, instead.

It is the second compilation of the band's singles released by RCA in just three years, following 2001's Best of the Cowboy Junkies

Best of the Cowboy Junkies

Best of the Cowboy Junkies is a 2001 greatest hits compilation of Cowboy Junkies' songs recorded for RCA Records. It was compiled by the label without the band's authorization or approval, and most Internet fansites advise that the album should consequently be boycotted by fans...

, and is part of the label's Platinum and Gold Collection series of discount

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-priced singles anthologies.

All songs are drawn from the band's RCA Records albums: The Trinity Session

The Trinity Session

The Trinity Session is a 1988 album by Cowboy Junkies, their second album.The music was recorded at Toronto, Ontario's Church of the Holy Trinity on , with the band circled around a single microphone...

, The Caution Horses

The Caution Horses

The Caution Horses is a 1990 album by the Canadian country rock band Cowboy Junkies.The first album following their 1988 breakthrough The Trinity Session, The Caution Horses features a more conventional, polished sound than that album's spare, haunting country blues...

, Black Eyed Man

Black Eyed Man

Black Eyed Man is a 1992 album by Cowboy Junkies.The album continues the band's evolution from a spare country blues style to a more mainstream country rock style...

and Pale Sun Crescent Moon

Pale Sun Crescent Moon

Pale Sun Crescent Moon is a 1993 album by Cowboy Junkies.Canadian guitarist Ken Myhr appears on every track on this album. It is generally viewed as the band's best 1990s work...

.

Track listing

1. "Sweet Jane
   Sweet Jane
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   " (Lou Reed
   Lou Reed
   Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
   
   )
2. "Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)
   Blue Moon (song)
   "Blue Moon"'s first crossover recording to rock and roll came from Elvis Presley in 1956. His cover version of the song was included on his self-titled debut album Elvis Presley....
   
   "
3. "Anniversary Song"
4. "This Street, That Man, This Life"
5. "Misguided Angel"
6. "A Horse in the Country"
7. "The Post"
8. "Murder, Tonight, in the Trailer Park"
9. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
   I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
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   " (Hank Williams Sr)
10. "Seven Years"
11. "Dreaming My Dreams With You"
12. "Powderfinger" (Neil Young
    Neil Young
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    )