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Neil Young With Crazy Horse- AMERICANA- CD- 2012- Reprise Records- 093624950851- 400 grn
AMERICANA is the 31st studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on June 5, 2012. The album was Young's first collaboration with backing band Crazy Horse since their 2003 album, Greendale, and its associated tour. AMERICANA is the first album from Neil Young & Crazy Horse in nearly nine years. Crazy Horse is: Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Frank '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 Dula” 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.
PERSONNEL: Neil Young – vocals, guitar; Billy Talbot – bass, vocals; Ralph Molina – drums, vocals; Frank "Poncho" Sampedro – guitar, vocals; Dan Greco – orchestral cymbals, tambourine; Americana Choir, Pegi Young, Stephen Stills – vocals.
What ties these songs together is the fact that while they may represent an AMERICANA 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. Always garage rock primitives, Crazy Horse sounds downright amateurish on AMERICANA, as if they woke up one morning and couldn't remember how to play their instruments. Each cut plays like a first take, none worse than "Get A Job," where the band struggles mightily to achieve some semblance of swing and misses. Sometimes, this cacophony can be oddly compelling, particularly when a children's chorus [the better to underscore these songs' origins, perhaps] are brought into the mix, inevitably leading to everybody tripping over each other. It all winds up as an ungodly mess: Crazy Horse do, as Young asserted they would, make these songs their own, but by doing so, they've made them so nobody else would ever want them.
Housed In A Gatefold Cardboard Sleeve With Hype Sticker On Front Cover Includes 28 Page Small-Size (93 mm x 119 mm) Book With Lyrics, Credits And Liner Notes.
Made In U.S.A.
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