This cover made a blind man see beauty. Thanks for my kids typing this for me

Let's give some credit to that awesome accordion playing

That accordion.... unbelievably beautiful. The best use of an accordion in 'Rock' music I have ever heard. Sublime, bliss, perfection.

just beautiful... her voice is magic, and the band is hauntingly good....

I’m not from Canada I simply love this song because my best girlfriend loved it and she passed very young and I still miss her many years later that’s all ❤

I drove from Calgary, Alberta, to Sault-St-Marie, Ontario last summer with my family. We weren’t in a hurry and only listened to Canadian legends: lots of Neil Young and Cowboy Junkies. Great country. Great music. Margo has always been my favourite female vocalist. Cowboy Junkies may not be as well known today, but their recent work is at least as good as their classic albums from the late 80s and early 90s. The things that always strikes me about the Cowboy Junkies is that they aren’t stars. They aren’t prima donnas. They are just regular people, like you and me, who happen to be passionate about making the kind of music they want to make. Not much authenticity left these days, but Cowboy Junkies have it in spades.

Every now and again, someone covers Young's work in a way that makes you appreciate both the original and the cover even more than you did before. This is such a cover. Beautiful.

Margo Timmons has one of the most haunting voices in contemporary music.

There are bands that can take you back. Back to your mystical, magical days long gone. Lovers lost. Times forgotten to all but you. And... maybe... her..? For a moment you can visit again. The greeting. The caress. The longing shared. Thank you Neil. Thanks, Junkies. And... I still miss you, #1...

Wow, What a rendition of a great Neil Young song. So nice to listen to. Thank you so much I am 76 & love it.❤

If music moves you we are all from the same place.

this woman could sing the phone book and it would sound great!

I loved their cover of Sweet Jane, but this is on another plane. Shivers.

After exhausting shifts as an Army medical intern in Augusta Georgia in 1991, I used to play the Cowboy Junkies "Caution Horses" CD and fall blissfully asleep listening to Margo Timmins' voice. She was then, and still is, phenomenal.

This song speaks to so many, on so many levels.

I don't think I've ever heard an accordion sound so beautiful, mind blown. What an awesome cover, Junkies style.

Love me some Cowboy 🤠 Junkies, the Accordion reminds me of Garth Hudson

Margo Timmons/ Cowboy Junkies Voice is so beautiful. I just love this rendition of Neil Young's song. Absolutely Heavenly.

My heart is breaking because I’m listening to this by myself and I no longer have anyone to share these moments with.

This band is filled with power and is profoundly underrated. I have been touched so deeply by these guys and I will always be grateful to them for doing what they do.

I think it is more than a Cover - this song is a Hommage!

That accordion is like water flowing through the soul....

Soul to burn beautiful rendition of a classic Neil song!

Neil Young, one of the greatest songwriters of all time. And Margo Timmons/Cowboy Junkies covering his songs. Absolute musical heaven.

This voice and band are underrated.

Anything by the Cowboy Junkies is an automatic "like"

This is my favorite cover of this song. The 23rd time I listened to it, I realized the drummer is impeccable. Great song.

Beautiful lady, beautiful voice, beautiful song, beautifully played. Just beautiful.

Margo and the Junkies are flawless interpreters, just amazing, then NOW everywhere between..as much as I love NY,, Margo has her way of transforming

This is music from heaven and beyond....

WOW Mr. Young would be impressed. God BLESS CANADA.

Beautiful, haunting and humble. A wonderful testament to Canadian culture of a different time. God bless them.

I have seen the Cowboy Junkies at least 12 times live over the last 20 years and they have always been absolutely amazing in concert her voice and her brothers guitar playing are spectacular.

Wow....not sure how I missed this wonderful group. Geez.

an australain who sits on the ground and loves his bush, this song sinks into my heart, cover or not , got a rello who married a Canadian lass and lives in your place, Ontario, and this song is one of thier favourites.

This is what happens when you sing from your soul and not from this fucked up world. There is hope. It's dim, distant, and almost forgotten. Be true...faithful...and strong. We will make it.

I love this wonderful cover of Mr. Neil Young, his version is hard to top, but this is gorgeous, and I am mourning my mom’s recent death (2 months ago)& my dad is in hospice dying, and I feel Helpless Helpless Helpless, I have been listening to this version the last 5 months, it makes me cry, but it’s beautiful ❤

This Band deserves so much more! First time I heard Them,was sweet Jane !

There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless Baby can you hear me now? The chains are locked and tied across the door, Baby, sing with me somehow. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless. Neil Young

One day.. One day I hope to get to see CJ live. I have been listening for so many years; thank you for all the music that you have shared with us all.

In these times of trouble and despair this version of this song is therapy to my soul. Beautiful vocals and a silky smooth sound. Well done

Heavenly. If these folks are ever coming through your town on tour ... i highly recommend you attend. Best $ you'll ever spend. The entire band is absolutely on fire here. So in sync as a unit, yet so individually brilliant too. Simply magnificent from each of them.

This song so epitomizes when you go farther north in Canada,, see the stars, hear nature, and feel truly isolated, and yet? And wow does Margo Timmins and company do this justice

My children introduced me to The Trinity Session years ago…any thereby,introduced me to The Cowboy Junkies. Margo Timmons has the most beautiful voice…it is haunting,it is ethereal,it is unequaled,in my opinion by anyone except perhaps Natalie Merchant or Joan Osbourne…happiness ,to me,is being alone ,in my car,singing with her.

How have I never heard of the Cowboy Junkies???!! Brilliant!

Ive always loved this band . Thank you very much. Im in the hospital,I found out I have lung cancer today. It spread. This is very soothing.

Hauntingly beautiful....the entire band... Somehow... So Canadian. Bravo!

Stupenda grazie un milione di volte...

I came across this by chance. Love her voice. She really knows how to convey 'helpless'

Her voice adds the right amount of pathos to Neil Young's great lyrics and score. Perfect. Thank you again, Junkies.

To get to my new home, I often have to drive on Ontario street. How can I NOT start singing this iconic song?

Oh thank you. My boss, her boyfriend played for the Cowboy Junkies. I called him Wayne, but I didn't live in that world. I had no idea.

Margo and Beth Gibbons are to die for, vocally.

I''m going to say it again, because this man is a phenomenal accordion player. I've never heard anything this so amazing and fitting for a song as this. Brother, you are the real deal. I love it! Keep on keeping on. Accordions ROCK!

Cowboy Junkies performing Neil Youngs Helpless is. With a doubt my favorite song. Margo’s voice is angelic. The rest of the Junkies are awesome. Michael and sometimes Margo compose and write some of the greatest songs in the world.

what a fabulous cover of a fabulous song

This is the most soulful expression of this song that I’ve ever heard.

I saw these beauties in the very early 80s. In a small bar in Brookline. They were like grown children and they killed it. I wondered how such youth could create so much. Respect.

"Helpless" still gives me the shivers, and this cover does a great job of it!

Such beauty in a haunting song..just the best tribute to Neil Young’s poetry there can be

That voice is just amazing.

the best rendition of this magical song I've ever heard.

Margo and the band just nail this. Beautiful.

I have heard a lot of covers of this song, but they have to be the best I've ever heard....

God gave the world a chill pill.

This is a glorious version of an excellent song. Thanks for posting

What a brilliant cover of this song. It is one of my favorite Neil Young songs. In this cover, the harmonic and the accordian provide a haunting aspect in the background that make this cover particularly outstanding, perhaps my favorite version of this song.

Fantastic version of a great song/ The drummer is amazing. The vocals are superb.

I’ve loved the CJ’s ever since I first saw them on Johnny Carson’s show & that’s been many moons ago! ❤

👍 not only Margo and the guitarrists are greatfull, but also the Drummer and the Bassplayer. To deliver a carpet on good music this is essantial. Thank's for that.

You must also hear their version of Jerry Garcia's "To Lay Me Down". Maybe the saddest, most beautiful song I have ever heard.

This is the kind of sad, sobering song that the Cowboy Junkies are really great at. I love it.

This song makes my heart ache.

Knocking on heavens door.

Never gets old. It's our song

1970 An old villa with bay windows facing East was the perfect place to listen to this.

Thank you for freeing the music for those whose love of music is paramount and above copyright infringement. :)

Thank you Blythe spirit. I don't know how you can post this great music without commercials, but this is a great collection to add to my library. Peace love and light.

The accordian, so beautiful. And a voice that needs no backing vocals❤

Geez, what a voice and what a band. So soulful.

They sure do some great covers, don't they?

Great cover of most wonderful song ever. I first heard in a 4 AM bar in near NorthSide Chicago in must be 1969 when I was 21 and stoned.

Im 20 beats into this cover and already feel my generational superiority. Professionalism in artistic expression, every musical instrument a paintbrush. Ima junkie! ✌️

As with all the best music this discovered by accident on KZfaq! just love the performance and musicianship! a new fan!

So glad I discovered this group. Fantastic voice and musicians. Thank you God!,

One of the most beautiful reditions of my favorite Neil Young songs! What a voice.

I love the harmonica on this song and have taught many people to play like this

Such a voice! I had the song "If You Were the Woman & I Was the Man" a duet with Margo & John Prine played at my wedding...the Bride & Groom dance song. Just beautiful.

Hey, goosebumps all over , this is so haunting....am a Neil Young fan from India

This band can set a mood.

So late back with such a beautiful vibe

1st time I’ve agreed with a lot of comments Buffys version is outstanding (but she could sing the phone book & id listen Karen Carpenter was another peace be to you beautiful people

I am not the only one who loves this song.

This music is sublime! My daily tonic...

I come here often to be taken away to that little old place by the road to Belgrade. Thank you.

Just turned the tv off after watching the news, the sheer inhumanity inflicted on young women in Israel and the destruction in Gaza. Scrolling aimlessly through YT came across this. Sitting in the dark and letting it flow over, can't help but make you feel better. Thankyou Cowboy Junkies

Amazing Margo and her voice. Sweet accordion too

The Cowboy Junkies now OWN this song!!! 😍

It's hard to improve on Neil Young. This is a soulful cover. Go Canada!

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!