Nine years on from Greendale, I’m excited at the prospect of a new Neil Young & Crazy Horse album scheduled for release on June 5th 2012 even though the track listing looks very weird.
It’s entitled Americana and consists solely of cover versions, mainly of old folk tunes that are so familiar that are usually regarded with contempt.
Songs like Oh Susanna,Tom Dula, Clementine and She’ll Be Comin’ Round The Mountain’ which as been renamed Jesus’ Chariot. Continue reading
Neil Young has always been one of those artists who is a benchmark for integrity; a performer who, like Dylan, has always remained aloof from the bullshit that goes with success and stardom.
Sure, he’s had some lean years and released some dud albums, particularly during the Reagan years, but he’s always kept moving and been motivated by being true to himself rather than adapting to fit in with any one particular style or image. In an interview with Nick Kent in the early 1990s , he said: “I’m someone who’s always tried systematically to destroy the very basis of my record-buying public…..that’s what’s kept me alive. You destroy what you did before and you’re free to carry on”. Continue reading
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