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Neil Young: Tonight's The Night 50th Anniversary Deluxe
by Doug Collette
Given the checkered history behind Neil Young's Tonight's The Night (Reprise, 1975), the 50th Anniversary Deluxe might well have been issued as a multi-disc package. An expanded collection of this third entry in 'the Ditch Trilogy'--along with Time Fades Away (Reprise, 1973) and On The Beach (Reprise, 1974)-- would accommodate the original recordings of 1973, the subsequent additions from different sources (overseen by Young's now-deceased manager Elliot Roberts), plus the (multiple and) final (sic) resequencing of the dozen cuts during ...
Continue ReadingNeil Young with Crazy Horse: World Record
by Doug Collette
In its own peculiar way, World Record is as confounding as the previous two albums by Neil Young with Crazy Horse. Yet it's far more compelling, this despite its comparably impromptu, borderline sloppy nature. This title might be heard as a progression from or an extension of Colorado (Reprise, 2019) and/or Barn (Reprise, 2021, except that the occasionally excessive air of spontaneity that permeates the material and the performances begs the question of how Rick Rubin contributed to this recording ...
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