It must be nice to be Associate Editor Andy Greene at Rolling Stone who gets to write about Neil Young a lot, seeing the legendary musician is so prolific on many fronts.
Since we feature so much of Greene’s writing, here he is.
Sometimes writing is a thankless job, so thanks Andy, for your good work bringing Zumans and Rusties so much Neil Young news. We like it.
Greene writes about “Live at the Cellar Door” without a gazillion adjectives.
“After 44 years in the vault, the recordings are finally coming out on December 10th on CD gram vinyl. The set mixes Buffalo Springfield classics like ‘Flying on the Ground Is Wrong’ and ‘I Am a Child’ with new songs like “After the Goldrush” and ‘Tell My Why.’ Young plays ‘Cinnamon Girl’ on piano for one of the very few times in his long career. The shows also featured the live debuts of ‘Old Man’ and ‘See the Sky About to Rain.
These performances by Neil are epic in their intimacy, his connection with the audience, and the quality of Young’s voice. It feels like the sky about to rain. Listen to “Flying on the Ground is Wrong” and it feels like you are in the room.
You can listen to the new release at the Rolling Stone link below:
Album reviews of Neil Young’s newest soon-to-be released “Cellar Door” can be churned out ad nauseam. How many can we read?
Henry Hauser’s review at Consequence of Sound, an on-line music publication, tells the story of what happened in 1970, starting with a failed CSN&Y recording session at Young’s home in Hawaii.
Instead, band members went their separate ways and put out their own solo albums that made Billboard’s top 15. Young’s released “After the Gold Rush,” but, Hauser writes – not surprisingly – not everyone got behind it.
“Langdon Winner dismissed it as unlistenable, likening Young’s voice to ‘pre-adolescent whining.’ Not to be outdone by his erstwhile bandmates, the competitive Canadian continued writing new material and scheduled back-to-back concerts at Carnegie Hall.”
“Hoping to shake off the cobwebs following a five-month layoff, Young played a series of warmup gigs at The Cellar Door, an intimate D.C. music club. Live at the Cellar Door, the most recent installment in Young’s Archive Performance Series, captures these six solo sets.”
Of the music, Hauser gets sappy, using words like poignant, purposeful, ardent, penetrating, enthralling, dreamy, superb, wistful. There may be a record number of adjectives used in this review.
“The introspective ‘Tell Me Why’ finds the singer grappling with unsolvable quagmires in a wounded, elegiac timber (‘Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself?’).”
The UK’s UNCUT has done it again in its ongoing love affair with Neil Young.
John Mulvey’s blog talks about the new release ‘Live at the Cellar Door” and its timing, just as the magazine was putting out its Uncut Ultimate Music guide dedicated to Young.
“Just as we thought we’d put together a comprehensive survey of all his recorded work, another Archives Performance Series release crept onto the schedules,” Mulvey writes.
Also:” One of the great pleasures of ‘Live At The Cellar Door’ is the way it illustrates how malleable Young’s songs can be. ‘Cinnamon Girl’, for instance, is hardly diminished by that lunging riff being replaced by a quasi-baroque flurry of notes. Listen out, especially, for a powerful moment when Young sings ‘Loves to dance/Loves to…’ and allows himself to be overwhelmed as his playing suddenly shifts from tenderness to a new bluesy intensity. ‘That’s the first time I ever did that one on the piano,’ he notes at the death, and I’m not sure he’s done it again many times since.”
The Neil Young Ultimate Music Guide goes on sale towards the end of this week. The 148-page guide, through interviews from the NME, Melody Maker and Uncut archives, reveals that, among many things, Young has been consistent in his contrary single-mindedness. The new reviews of every one of his albums provide a similarly weird and gripping narrative, finding significant echoes and hidden treasures on even his most misunderstood and neglected ‘80s records.
Pitchfork is announcing that Neil Young will release a new live album of six performances from 1970 at the Cellar Door in Washington D.C.
The collection is scheduled to be released on Nov. 26.
According to Pitchfork, the recordings of the performances came a few months after the release of After the Gold Rushfrom November 30 to December 2, 1970,.
Live at the Cellar Door will be out through Reprise on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
The album features Young performing acoustic and piano renditions of songs from After the Gold Rush, as well as three versions of Buffalo Springfield songs, a solo piano take of 1969’s “Cinnamon Girl”, early takes of songs that would appear on later studio albums, and other classics.
Live At The Cellar Door:
Tell Me Why, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, After the Gold Rush, Expecting to Fly, Bad Fog of Loneliness, Old Man, Birds, Don’t Let It Bring You Down,See The Sky About to Rain,Cinnamon Girl,I Am a Child, Down by the River, Flying on the Ground Is Wrong.
“Dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup
With the promise of a man. ” by -- Neil Young
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It must be nice to be Associate Editor Andy Greene at Rolling Stone who gets to write about Neil Young a lot, seeing the legendary musician is so prolific on many fronts.
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