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)
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
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
An enticing description, but we can't actually listen? Subscribers Only, maybe--?
― dow, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
If by "enticing" you mean "sneaky, deceptive" description. Fuck John R. Mulvey.
― beachville, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
oh ha, it's just that dude's first listen. us little people can't listen yet.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
Young and Crazy Horse can be simultaneously horny-handed yet elegiac.
hmm
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
tbf i wouldn't be surprised if neil was horny-handed in the lookin' for sex sense
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― dow, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
wait, what does horny-handed mean?!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
it's when you have sex a bunch but you never wash your hands, and other people can start to smell it
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
well kudos to them i guessat least we know what they smell likestill wonder what it sounds like
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
i just spent a liiiiiitle too long trying to think of a pun involving sex and ears
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
A wellknown gnome like pop star, angry that Port had spurned his advances one night at the Whisky, had threatened to have her “taken care of.”
quoted from Shakey. Who was the gnome-like pop star?
― how's life, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
You might have to narrow that down a little.
― "pulling a Jaz" (stevie), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
At the point I've read to in the book, that's all they give up. I don't expect it will be revisited. Just wondering if anyone had any insight.
― how's life, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link