Here Come the Miracles

Here Come the Miracles
Studio album by Steve Wynn
Released	April 24, 2001 (2001-04-24)
Genre	Psychedelic rock
Length	81:59
Label	Blue Rose Records
Producer	Craig Schumacher[1]
Steve Wynn chronology
Suitcase Sessions (2000) Here Come the Miracles (2001) Static Transmission (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

Here Come the Miracles is a double album by Steve Wynn.[5] It was released in 2001 on Blue Rose Records. It is the first album in Wynn's "desert trilogy".[4][1]

Production

The album was recorded in Tucson, Arizona, at Wavelab Studios.[6] Wynn's friends Linda Pitmon (drums), Chris Brokaw (guitar), and Chris Cacavas (keyboards) played on the album.[2]

Critical reception

No Depression wrote that "Wynn’s nineteen-song cycle of a Southern California suspended between the millennium and the apocalypse infuses his literary aspirations with rock ‘n’ roll smarts, as if he's fronting Raymond Chandler's supercharged garage band."[7] The Los Angeles Times called the album "a freewheeling yet self-assured balance of Wynn’s own voice and the influences long associated with him--the darkness of the Velvet Underground, the spaciousness of Neil Young and the oblique introspection of Bob Dylan."[6] The Washington Post called the album the best of Wynn's career.[8] The Cleveland Scene called it "an amazing, visionary double CD, a voyage through the psychic topography of contemporary Los Angeles that taps into and expresses deep fears as well as hopes for redemption."[9]

Track listing

Songs written by Steve Wynn, except where noted.

Disc 1

1. "Here Come The Miracles" (Wynn, Linda Pitmon)
2. "Shades of Blue"
3. "Sustain"
4. "Blackout"
5. "Butterscotch"
6. "Southern California Line"
7. "Morningside Heights"
8. "Let's Leave It Like That"
9. "Crawling Misanthropic Blues"
10. "Drought"
11. "Death Valley Rain" (Wynn, Pitmon)

Disc 2

1. "Strange New World"
2. "Sunset to the Sea"
3. "Good and Bad"
4. "Topanga Canyon Freaks" (Wynn, Pitmon)
5. "Watch Your Step"
6. "Charity"
7. "Smash Myself to Bits"
8. "There Will Come a Day"

Notes

1. Kot, Greg. "Guitar-based rockers Wynn and Rizzomake new magic". chicagotribune.com.
2. "Here Come the Miracles - Steve Wynn | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
3. "Robert Christgau: CG: Steve Wynn". www.robertchristgau.com.
4. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 792.
5. "Steve Wynn | Biography & History". AllMusic.
6. "Wynn Catches His 'Miracles'". Los Angeles Times. September 20, 2001.
7. "Steve Wynn – Here Come The Miracles". No Depression. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
8. "STEVE WYNN &" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
9. Wolff, Carlo. "The Dream Syndicate / Steve Wynn". Cleveland Scene.