Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

yeah it sounds like "she'll take us to the portals when she comes"....weird...that can't be in the original verses can it? maybe he's doing some weird sci-fi after the gold rush thing

man this fucking rocks

aaaah yeah that's the fucking ticket man.....loving this.

there's a point in every neil solo where he slides up from the low register to higher on the neck and that part always rules

portal is in the lyrics of the original spiritual , it's about the second coming of christ, i guess the portal leads you to the rapture

cool, didn't know that

hearing chops and slices of this song, really wishin my browser would play it. >:-[

so good

holy shit is this good

Apparently this video was rejected by Neil's record label:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur93x7zN4To

omg. stressful!
love that these songs all sound like "fuckin' up" basically. and first takes.

blurgh, tix go on sale for neil & crazy horse at red rocks right now, but decent seats are well over $100. no way i can actually pay that amount.

Dude this is ”bad” advice, but...credit card

oh i can *afford* it w/o going into the poor house, i just have this incredible aversion to paying more than like $40 for concerts. The shitty seats are $65!

Yeah I guess not living there I have a way overblown idea of how amazing red rocks would be, mostly because of seeing that u2 video as a kid

eh, if you're back far enough, the sound can be pretty terrible.

o_0 at that video. getting more and more excited for this record!

This is going to be the best kids record ever.

yeahhhh. seriously, all of these songs are sounding pretty great.

Stoned at a dinner party last Saturday, I wandered into the living room where Sirius was playing. It took me a couple minutes to realize it was Neil doing "Oh Susanna."

It's weird, his website lists a bunch of tour dates, but only a handful show the location...and some are a month apart. But I'm definitely gonna try to catch him if he gets within driving distance.

Those aren't tour dates, they are the dates of full moons. Neil has a thing about full moons.

Tarfumes, you must be new to Neil's website.

a couple years back the "tour" link was a picture of the LINK/VOLT car, where the 'rivets' were meant to represent the tour dates. Lets just say that the bullet points on his website don't necessarily ever get filled in.

He's real coy about that shit.

Anyway, he always does this shit. Yeah, it's maddening

Lots of stuff here, mainly live, but check the info links for each dl: also incl unreleased albums etc. Neil-wise: the Trans Band and many other nice things http://www.ousterhout.net/music-menu.html

Tarfumes, you must be new to Neil's website.

Indeed I am. And yeah, maddening is the word for it.

jesus christ, this americana stuff is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSpnfUx_o3E

ok that one might not be one of the highlights, still not bad

yeah, my least fave so far, but the guitar does sound pretty sweet.

I love Neil Young and I love most of this album but I don't know how anyone can even half-heartedly defend this steaming turd of a tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-DO3FgROI

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-neil-young-and-crazy-horse-americana-20120528

This is really fun, but I wish he had just brought in new songs. The fact that it is old folk songs is exactly what a) makes it a novelty and b) will keep me from listening to it more than once or twice.

Though, who knows, you know? "Tom Dula" is pretty awesome.

OK, this version of "Get a Job" - what the hell is that doing here? - is taking the piss terrible.

Does not exceed my expectations of the stylistic vehicle/approach, but gets its paws purty far under the hood. Might wanta fast fwd halfway through the 8-minute "Tom Dula," and a couple others get a little bogged down in the middle (also expected, of apparently live-in-the-studio [except maybe the deft backing vocals] stomping grooves with gnarly solos), but overall, damn good. No prob atall with "God Save The Queen", especially as closer--he might be singing to an American queen--esp with sweet little surprise slipped in towards the end. Good after "This Land," with verses I do not recall singing in Cold War grade school, and "God Save," at least this version, has "Con-found their politics, frustrate their e-vil tricks," amen! A very satisfying first listen, at the very least ("Get a Job" is the scariest ol' folk song!)

loooooving this Tom Dula.

40-minute film posted over at http://neilyoung.com (incorporating all the videos previously posted). typically goofy.

really enjoying this album! maybe more than any of the neil albums in the past decade or so. get a job is the outlier here, but it's got to be some kind of nod to crazy horse's origins as a vocal group.
album is not a masterpiece, but it's a lot of fun.

I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. I find this album a massive chore to listen to; I want to skip to the end of each track about half way through.

However, I think this material will be a blast live. Just don't make me listen to the record again.

I hope they play it in its entirety when they tour this fall.

No I don't.

While I welcome the return of the Horse, this is pretty much a one-listen novelty for me. I would have been happy with one or two of these tracks dropped in the middle of a proper album, sort of the way "Blowin' in the WInd" pops up in "Weld," but this thing? Nah. I'd sooner put on "Living with War" again.

(And I don't want to listen to "LIving with War," either)

dunno, guess it's pushing the right crazy horse buttons for me.

How were you on the electric car record? (xpost)

Not that OK in it, but this is better than that. Guy always has a track or two I dig, but this album is pretty half-assed by design in a weird way. Would have had more symbolic weight if he had given it away on his website.

josh did you ever listen to the re-release of living with war that didn't have the choir?

No, actually. That was another one just sort of spat out after the fact that I totally would have listened to were it not yet another $18 Neil Young CD on the shelves. Of all the acts you'd think would be operating outside the major label system, you'd totally think it would be Neil Young, but from his longtime relationship with Warners to his premature embrace of premium, proprietary formats to that fucking boxed set, habits like releasing an album twice in the span of months is ironically one of the reasons I stopped buying CDs!

Is the "War" re-release good? Probably!

Maybe he can release this one again in six months, comprising the second takes of all these songs.

Fans purchasing their concert tickets online will receive a copy of the brand new CD - AMERICANA, available in stores Tuesday, June 5th. Tickets for Neil Young & Crazy Horse will go on sale starting June 8th in select markets at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. General admission floor tickets available in all markets with the exception of Los Angeles.

I wonder if the tour tickets will be real expensive as he has done in the recent past?

yes, they are expensive. cheapest tix for the red rocks shows (in the nosebleeds) are $65. Best seats are over $200.