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Neil Young- LIVING WITH WAR- CD- 2006- Reprise Records- 093624433521- 400 grn
Released In HDCD (High Definition Compatible Digital). Though It Is Mentioned Nowhere On The Release.
LIVING WITH WAR is the 27th studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on May 2, 2006. The album's lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical of the policies of the George W. Bush administration; the CTV website defined it as "a musical critique of U.S. President George W. Bush and his conduct of the war in Iraq". The record was written and recorded over nine days in March and April 2006. Even if you don't agree with Neil Young's politics, you can't help but be daunted by the intersection of his genius and ire on his second album in less than seven months. It is the very rare artist who is able to channel indignation and moral disgust in such a coherent and forceful way - without sacrificing any of the vivid imagery, passion, or the high level of musicality that we have come to expect from him over the past four decades. But that's not what elevates this album: it's his pure, naked, visceral reaction to the Bush administration's foreign policy, building on a canon of outrage that he began with 1970's "Ohio," penned in the wake of the Kent State student deaths. But here he goes one better, filling in the lines that he began to draw on 2003's Greendale about a family caught in changing times. But Young's done with musing about lost ideals. On LIVING WITH WAR, he demands much more from his audience, and himself. This is nothing less than a call for fearless action in extraordinarily fearful times.
PERSONNEL: Neil Young – guitars, harmonica, vocal, producer; Rick Rosas – bass; Chad Cromwell – drums; Tommy Bray – trumpet; Rosemary Butler - vocal contractor, background vocals; Michael Mishaw - background vocals.
In a move that deliberately echoes the rush release of "Ohio" in the wake of the Kent State shootings, Neil Young bashed out his 2006 protest record LIVING WITH WAR in a matter of days, sometimes recording songs the day they were written, and then seized the opportunities of the digital age by streaming the entire album on his website only weeks after it was recorded, with the official digital and CD releases trailing several days later. It's the best use yet of the instant, widespread distribution that the Web has to offer, and it also hearkens back to the days when folk music was topical, turning the news into song. But if the ballads of the 19th century were passed along gradually, growing along the way, or if the protest tunes of the folk revival of the 1950s and '60s grew in stature being performed regularly, gaining strength as singer after singer sang them, LIVING WITH WAR captures a specific moment in time: early 2006, when George W. Bush's approval ratings slipped to the low 30s, as discontent sowed by the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, rising gas prices, and much more turned into a general malaise in the country. And that's the reason why, politics aside, LIVING WITH WAR stands as a very strong, effective Neil Young album that will continue to have a punch long after the George W. Bush administration has faded into the history books.
Presented In A Regular Jewel Case With Clear Tray Includes 16-Page Booklet With Lyrics And Credits.
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