Artist: Neil Young
Column from web archive December 10, 2008
For Young’s fans, Archives awaits…and awaits…
Obsessives typically don’t play well together. Whether on the battlefield, the football gridiron or a backyard drinking party, when two hard-headed, determined, focused types come into conflict, like the old songs says, something’s gotta give. A similar musical tilt has been playing out in recent weeks, although the antagonists may surprise you. In this corner, [...]
Column from web archive November 28, 2008
Young in younger days; Eno/Byrne reunited
WHATTA TEASE!: The launch of Neil Young’s Archives series had been widely and fervently anticipated before the end of this year, after delays that have extended for decades. The project had originally begun as a follow-up to 1977′s career-defining Decade, but new technology and new Neil Young music interceded. The latest announcement is that the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #73 Jan-Feb 2008
Neil Young / Pegi Young – Fox Theater (St. Louis, MO)
“When you’ve sung a song so many times, you have to take care of it,” Neil Young explained to the capacity crowd. A fan had just wrecked Young’s concentration during “After The Gold Rush”, yelling “Neil for president!” and causing him to stop and then struggle through the rest of the song. “If you sing [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II
Consider it a mark of artistic vigor that Neil Young continues to surprise after all these decades. It’s hard to remember a Young release that has been as thematically cohesive yet as musically diverse as Chrome Dreams II. Where most of his albums tend to emphasize the yin or the yang, the flannel or the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #68 Mar-Apr 2007
Neil Young – Live At Massey Hall
Maybe because the tease for Neil Young’s unveiling of recordings from his personal treasure trove has gone on for so long, and expectations are so high, the first installment in the series, last year’s Live At The Fillmore East was a bit of a disappointment. Recorded in 1970, it’s a solid set, to be sure, [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Neil Young – “Music just takes you wherever you want to go”
On consecutive August nights at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Neil Young performed the entirety of his new Prairie Wind with close to three dozen musicians coming and going to fulfill the roles they played on the original recordings. Then, after a brief intermission, he played a second set of songs from his career that fit the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Hal Willner’s Neil Young Project – Prospect Park Bandshell (Brooklyn, NY)
At their best, Hal Willner’s tribute projects (which have included albums devoted to Kurt Weill, Disney movie songs and Edgar Allan Poe) can reveal unexpected things about both the source material and the performers. At their clunkiest, the boho producer/arranger’s efforts can come across as hipster cabaret gimmickry. The expansive Neil Young Project he organized [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Neil Young – On The Beach / American Stars ‘N Bars / Hawks & Doves / Re·ac·tor
As with most major artists, the lion’s share of Neil Young’s Reprise catalog was converted to CD in the late 1980s, digital’s frontier days, with little consideration given to sound quality, presentation or artistic intent. At the time, not much was made of the six unreleased titles: the four above-mentioned, as well as the essential [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #27 May-June 2000
Neil Young – Silver & Gold
Neil Young’s 29th album begins to describe itself, not far from its end. “The flash of a distant camera, reconnecting thoughts and actions…Fragments of our missing dream, pieces from here and there…Fall in place along the line, disappearing between you and me…” A Neil cutlet pieced together from several projects and propositions, once intended to [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #21 May-June 1999
Neil Young – Paramount Theatre (Seattle, WA)
Going through the motions in style might best describe Neil Young’s solo performance at the Paramount, the first U.S. date of a two-month theater tour. Extremely high ticket prices ($80 for a seat halfway back on the main floor) only helped to foster high expectations for the show which, while it didn’t exactly disappoint, came [...]
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