Lay It Down (studio album)
by Cowboy Junkies

Lay It Down by Cowboy Junkies
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 18,381st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 18 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (352nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (2,925th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,381st)

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Cowboy Junkies bestography

Lay It Down is ranked 5th best out of 30 albums by Cowboy Junkies on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Cowboy Junkies is The Trinity Session which is ranked number 1650 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,028.

Cowboy Junkies album bestography « Higher ranked (16,045th)
Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
This album (18,381st)
Lay It Down
Lower ranked (19,364th) »
The Wilderness: The Nomad Series, Vol. 4

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 18 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.0/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.

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Great album, Great band top10 album of the 90's
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