http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m15qvtFAVh1qdf09mo1_500.pngcover is already classic
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
Same "High Flyin' Bird" as the Airplane, I assume? Never liked it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3i8vtqDpXo
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
Man that tracklist....well definitely the best record I buy this year with old susanna on it
how awesome would it be if the whole album was a fake out leading up to a 19 minute sex pistols jam?
― konybrony (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
[x-post]Yup. The Airplane got it off Judy Henske:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBC3cfDZbRo
It was written by Billy Edd Wheeler. In the mid-90s Neil wanted to record a cover, and had his office fax Henske a question about the publishing. Shortly thereafter, Henske saw Neil at a party or something, and she got in his face about recording "her song".
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
get a job
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man ilxor unperson isn't going to be looking forward to this given his FB rant. I'm willing to give it a shot, Horsed up trad folk songs could be cool....
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, I saw that. I dunno, when it's time for someone to retire, it's usually because they've run out of ideas. Far from it, in Neil's case: he's just coming up with increasingly batshit ideas (which I am 100% on board with, btw).
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
writing a straight autobiography seems kind of un-Neil to me
― deaths and oil painting graphics (blank), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
more than most artists, neil young strikes me as someone you shouldn't second guess
― brokering (pimping) (stevie), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, that doesn't say Crazy Horse on the cover, it says CRAZY NOISE
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 07:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 07:56 (twelve years ago) link
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
― willem, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 08:11 (twelve years ago) link
phew, because releasing a set of "classics" with a "new angle" on them usually means that the artist is "about to die"
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
wheel out the willie nelson duet
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
back in the old folkie days amirite?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
bwt judy henske is awful sorry folks.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
Oops. I should have read farther upthread.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Hang down your head, curmudgeon
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
oh i know i was referring to this new album
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
if the new album uses this as a template, i'm down with ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDV6rD7UCg8
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
album cover is amazing
― konybrony (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
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'."
― dow, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, "High Flyin' Bird" was written by Billy Edd Wheeler, but goes well w "The Other Side Of This Life."
― dow, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand "God Save the Queen". Why not "My Country 'Tis Of Thee"?
― lag∞na beach: the real ∞range c∞unty (beachville), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, there has to be some mistake. Other than that, I'm looking forward to this more than the other new Neil album.
― lag∞na beach: the real ∞range c∞unty (beachville), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
he's canadian, so... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IloIoGj5Mj0
― brokering (pimping) (stevie), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
hmmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lQzHnDl-QBk
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
They've borrowed the tune from Venus by Shocking Blue.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
subtract the so bad and hated from that clip and i can kind of imagine crazy horse doing a good version of that arrangement.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be, so who knows?
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
AWESOME! This song is the effing jam.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
Wish he was doing "I've Been Working on the Railroad".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
wtf is dave matthews doing at the beginning of that clip???
― konybrony (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
just doin' that dave matthews thang.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
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
― konybrony (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, totally. really, if that is all amped up with distorto guitars and long solos, i can dig it.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
what else would a crazy horse album be?
― mizzell, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Greendale?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
o, yeah. even though greendale is mentioned in all the press for the new one i forget that it was crazy horse.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
even though molina and talbot play on it, it still seems weird to call it a crazy horse album.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
liner noteshttp://www.uncut.co.uk/neil-young-on-his-new-album-americana-news
― tylerw, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'd prefer an album of this stuff to an album of "Greensleeves" variants.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
first listen!http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/neil-young-crazy-horses-americana-first-listen
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link