The Caution Horses is Cowboy Junkies first album recorded for a major label, as the follow-up to their breakthrough, The Trinity Session.
While the album was trashed by most reviewers (both AllMusic and Rolling Stone gave it 3 stars out of 5), as something of a mainstream sellout after the distinctive originality of their previous efforts, it did peak higher than its predecessor in Canada (#11) and in the UK (#30), and spawned three Canadian hit singles: "Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning" (#22), "'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel" (#68) and "Rock and Bird" (#34).
I remember the first time we attended a Cowboy Junkies' concert (we had already seen them outdoors at the University of Guelph, on my brother Tim's recommendation), with Joanne and Bill Randall at the El Mocambo – Tracy fell head-over-heels for Margo Timmins, so we went backstage after the show and Tracy gave her a big hug. But this album came later, just as we were moving to Fort Frances.
| Hometown: | Toronto |
| Label: | RCA |
| Release Date: | 22 February 1990 |
| Producer: | Peter Moore, Michael Timmins |
| Style: | alt. country rock |
| Mar*Star 125: | 44 |
| Mar*Star 150: | 85 |
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