Artist: Fred Neil
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Fred Neil – Trav’lin Man: The Early Singles
Though revered as an influential singer-songwriter, Fred Neil is best known for other people’s recordings of his work, particularly Harry Nilsson’s 1969 Top-10 hit “Everybody’s Talkin’”. With that in mind, it makes sense that, before he gravitated to the Greenwich Village folk scene, Neil worked in the hits-for-hire hive the Brill Building. The Neil originals [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Fred Neil – Self-Titled
An elusive, private and troubled man, Fred Neil created only a handful of albums. Right in the middle of that seven-year run (1964-1971) stands his most fully realized work. So completely unforced and organic in its execution, it seems apt that it bears nothing more than his name for a title. Neil was averse to [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Fred Neil – Echoes Of My Mind: The Best Of 1963-1971
From the very beginning, the New York folk scene — almost inevitably, it needs saying — had a dark side. For all the “new day a-comin’” optimism of the young Bob Dylan, of Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen, and the rest, there were also singers who felt the pull of the city’s seamier locations [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Fred Neil – Bleecker & Macdougal
He’s the answer to the question, “Who wrote for Buddy Holly, was backed up live by Bob Dylan, and recorded with Gram Parsons?” The late Fred Neil was a unique figure, associated, as the title of this reissued 1965 Elektra LP suggests, with the ’60s Village folk scare. As the song “Country Boy” here tells [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #35 Sept-Oct 2001
Fred Neil: 1936 to 2001
Fred Neil, one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the early folk-rock era, died in his sleep on July 7 at the age of 65. Known to most listeners solely as the author of “Everybody’s Talkin’”, Neil had not released a complete studio album for more than 30 years. Any attention he’d received was, perversely, [...]
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