The Caution Horses is a 1990 album by the Canadian

Canada

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 country rock

Country rock

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 band 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 ....

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The first album following their 1988 breakthrough 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 features a more conventional, polished sound than that album's spare, haunting country blues. As a consequence, the album was savaged by music critics, who charged that the band had sacrificed their distinctive style.

However, the album's accessibility to mainstream pop

Pop music

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 and rock

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 audiences also meant that it received more radio airplay and spawned bigger chart hits ("Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning" and "Rock and Bird", which featured Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby

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 on the piano on the single version) than The Trinity Session had. A number of critics have also noted that while the album is undeniably a disappointment when compared to its predecessor, when taken on its own merits it is a better album than its initial reception would suggest.

Track listing

All songs by Michael Timmins, except where noted.

1. "Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning" – 3:56
2. "Cause Cheap is How I Feel" – 4:13
3. "Thirty Summers" – 4:15
4. "Mariner's Song" – 6:20
5. "Powderfinger" (Neil Young
   Neil Young
   Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
   
   ) – 5:46
6. "Rock and Bird" – 5:03
7. "Witches" (Michael Timmins, Margo Timmins
   Margo Timmins
   Margo Timmins is the lead vocalist of the Canadian band Cowboy Junkies. She is the sister of Michael Timmins, the band's lead guitarist and Peter Timmins, the band's drummer...
   
   ) – 2:44
8. "Where Are You Tonight?" – 3:28
9. "Escape is So Simple" – 5:15
10. "You Will Be Loved Again" (Mary Margaret O'Hara
    Mary Margaret O'Hara
    Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress, who has been hailed as one of the greatest cult heroines in rock music despite having released very few of her own recordings. She is best known for the critically acclaimed album Miss America, released in 1988.-Early stages:O'Hara...
    
    ) – 3:26

Personnel

Cowboy Junkies

• Margo Timmins
  Margo Timmins
  Margo Timmins is the lead vocalist of the Canadian band Cowboy Junkies. She is the sister of Michael Timmins, the band's lead guitarist and Peter Timmins, the band's drummer...
  
   – lead vocals
• Michael Timmins – guitar
• Alan Anton – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Peter Timmins – drums
  Drum kit
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