neil young

Yeah, the thing about it being time for Neil to retire is so wrong, considering how absolutely fantastic (and not to mention, pretty much an entirely new direction) his most recent album was. Also, I thought the supposed concept record about his electric car was going to be pretty lol, but it turned out to have some jams on it too. Neil, please ignore the haters and keep on with your batshit ideas.

writing a straight autobiography seems kind of un-Neil to me

more than most artists, neil young strikes me as someone you shouldn't second guess

Wait, that doesn't say Crazy Horse on the cover, it says CRAZY NOISE

Read an interview (don't remember where, unfortunately) where Neil said there are TWO Crazy Horse records on the way, the Americana stuff and a set of originals, both recorded around the same time.

I love "Wayfaring Stranger"!
There's mention of two albums being made here: http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2012/01/report-new-crazy-horse-album-recorded.html

Read an interview (don't remember where, unfortunately) where Neil said there are TWO Crazy Horse records on the way, the Americana stuff and a set of originals, both recorded around the same time.

phew, because releasing a set of "classics" with a "new angle" on them usually means that the artist is "about to die"

sorry, not trying to be a neil hater, i'm just much, much, much, much more interested in the new material. (and i'll stop hatin' staaaaarting..NOW)

Neil Young has been doing classics with a new angle on them since he was about 16 years old.

wheel out the willie nelson duet

Neil was never destined to be Terrence Malick. From '68 to '83, the only year I can see where he didn't put out anything (if you count Journey) was '71. He's been marginally more sporadic since then. I'd put him in the Woody Allen category: churn stuff out, let history sort it out later. (Having said that, I'm 180 degrees from ZS--I'll never be more interested in what he's doing now than what he did between 1969 and 1975.)

back in the old folkie days amirite?

bwt judy henske is awful sorry folks.

new Neil Young album (with Crazy Horse) doing folk covers coming out in June:

March 20, 2012 - (Burbank, CA) - NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE will release a very special album titled AMERICANA on June 5, 2012. AMERICANA is the first album from Neil Young & Crazy Horse in nearly nine years. Crazy Horse is: Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Poncho Sampedro, and Neil Young.

As you'll see from the track-listing, AMERICANA is collection of classic, American folk songs. In their day, some of these may have been referred to as "protest songs," "murder ballads," or campfire-type songs passed down with universal, relatable tales for everyman.

Some of these compositions which, like "Tom Dooley" and "Oh Susannah," were written in the 1800s, while others, like "This Land Is Your Land" (utilizing the original, widely misinterpreted "deleted verses") and "Get A Job," are mid-20th-century folk classics. It's also interesting to note that "God Save The Queen," Britain's national anthem, also became the de facto national anthem of sorts before the establishment of The Union as we know it until we came to adopt our very own "The Star Spangled Banner," which has been recognized for use as early as 1889 and made our official national anthem in 1931. Each of these compositions is very much part of the fabric of our American heritage; the roots of what we think of as "Americana" in cultural terms, using songs as a way of passing along information and documenting our past.

What ties these songs together is the fact that while they may represent an America that may no longer exist, the emotions and scenarios behind these songs still resonate with what's going on in the country today with equal, if not greater impact nearly 200 years later. The lyrics reflect the same concerns and are still remarkably meaningful to a society going through economic and cultural upheaval, especially during an election year. They are just as poignant and powerful today as the day they were written.

Neil has penned brief historical details about each of the songs on AMERICANA that can be found here.

AMERICANA was produced by Neil and John Hanlon along with Mark Humphreys, and engineered by John Hanlon with John Hausmann and Jeff Pinn. It was recorded at Audio Casa Blanca by John Hanlon.

The track-listing is as follows:

Oh Susannah

Clementine

Tom Dooley

Gallows Pole

Get A Job

Travel On

High Flyin' Bird

She'll Be Comin 'Round The Mountain

This Land Is Your Land

Wayfarin' Stranger

God Save The Queen

Oops. I should have read farther upthread.

Hang down your head, curmudgeon

back in the old folkie days amirite?

The air was magic when we played. (Actually, I think of those early Archives recordings from '65 and '66 as the old folkie days; '69 to '75 was mostly lots and lots of feedback, with a little T-bone here and there.)

oh i know i was referring to this new album

if the new album uses this as a template, i'm down with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDV6rD7UCg8

album cover is amazing

The recent jam posted on his site might be a taste of the other album, or a tease, but yknow if they tour, they might well kick oot the jams anyway. Don't remember Airplane's studio "High Flyin' Bird," but they did it great on several live sets, ditto another Fred Neil song, "The Other Side Of This Life," esp on Bless Its Pointed Little Head, one of their best albums. Would like to hear Neil do that, or Fred's greatest hit cover, "Everybody's Talkin'."

Wait, "High Flyin' Bird" was written by Billy Edd Wheeler, but goes well w "The Other Side Of This Life."

I don't understand "God Save the Queen". Why not "My Country 'Tis Of Thee"?

I mean, there has to be some mistake. Other than that, I'm looking forward to this more than the other new Neil album.

he's canadian, so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IloIoGj5Mj0

hmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lQzHnDl-QBk

They've borrowed the tune from Venus by Shocking Blue.

subtract the so bad and hated from that clip and i can kind of imagine crazy horse doing a good version of that arrangement.

Yeah, it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be, so who knows?

She'll Be Comin 'Round The Mountain

AWESOME! This song is the effing jam.

Wish he was doing "I've Been Working on the Railroad".

wtf is dave matthews doing at the beginning of that clip???

just doin' that dave matthews thang.

huh that o suzanna is not bad really! but it's not really the song it's just like he wrote a neil young crazy horse song and used the lyrics to the old song

yeah, totally. really, if that is all amped up with distorto guitars and long solos, i can dig it.

what else would a crazy horse album be?

Greendale?

o, yeah. even though greendale is mentioned in all the press for the new one i forget that it was crazy horse.

even though molina and talbot play on it, it still seems weird to call it a crazy horse album.

Without Sampedro (and with Molina using hot rods instead of sticks), it barely feels like Crazy Horse. Good record, though. Definitely prefer it to Living With War.

liner notes
http://www.uncut.co.uk/neil-young-on-his-new-album-americana-news

I'd prefer an album of this stuff to an album of "Greensleeves" variants.

first listen!
http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/neil-young-crazy-horses-americana-first-listen

An enticing description, but we can't actually listen? Subscribers Only, maybe--?

If by "enticing" you mean "sneaky, deceptive" description. Fuck John R. Mulvey.

oh ha, it's just that dude's first listen. us little people can't listen yet.

Young and Crazy Horse can be simultaneously horny-handed yet elegiac.

hmm

lol yeah that is a weird britisher expression, i think. not meaning that your hands are lookin' for sex, but that you've been out working in the fields or something. the british!

tbf i wouldn't be surprised if neil was horny-handed in the lookin' for sex sense

Well, I was just skimming, squinting, translating from rockcriticese--looks like it's along the lines of whar I'd hoped for (though hopefully not *too* "elegiac," prob meaning moon-eyed warbly; raunch it up, please)