Neil Young

By Glen Boyd Bull Black Nova" is a great Kraftwerk meets Neil Young sort of successor to "Spiders (Kidsmoke)," and "You Never Know" marries a great Marc Bolan-esque vocal with the always amazing Nels Cline conjuring the spirit of George Harrison on guitar.

 OH - Jeff Perkins, Jeff Perkins Stevie Wonder drummer Alvino Bennett, Neil Young bassist Tony Marsico, and soul star Percy Sledge also guest. He delivers an album that not only satisfies his own need to show his love for R &B, but it will invigorate your love of the genre. ...

The sound of the album has been compared to Living With War, Neil Young's infamous anti-Bush themed "folk metal protest" album from 2006. The other biggie this week is country megastars Rascal Flatts, who are Unstoppable on their new album. ...

By Glen Boyd Neil Young has announced that he will world premiere his new album Fork In The Road on MySpace Music. Beginning today, fans can stream the album in its entirety for free by going to Neil Young's MySpace profile page. Fork In The Road will be released commercially by Reprise records on April 7. F...

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 OH The album closer is the Otis Redding tune, “Your Feeling Is Mine” where it is interesting to hear Miles vocal take. The only real miss is Neil Young’s “Down By The River.” It is a difficult song for him to sing plus he steps out from behind his drums ...

When you hitch your career wagon to guys like David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young it can be very easy to be overlooked. That's why this 64-song, three-disc set is such a surprise on an initial listen. You always knew Nash wrote a fair amount ...

 OH The other song of interest was another Neil Young composition, “Cowgirl In The Sand.” The Byrds would take it in a country-rock direction with an emotional performance. Byrds would be the final album by the group as the members would all go their ...

By Glen Boyd While his fans continue to patiently wait for Archives -- the massive ten-DVD boxed set that Neil Young has been working on and promising to deliver for what seems like forever -- one of the nicer benefits of his long, arduous search through the vaults is that it has yielded live gems like th...

By Glen Boyd when he was mainly a solo artist. Oh sure, he was (and is) respected as all get-out by his fellow musicians. He has regularly appeared on other peoples records like Neil Young. And he eventually landed what has to be regarded as a...

By Richard Marcus Chrome Dreams ll is one of Neil Young's better efforts in years There are some musical performers who are as comfortable as an old favorite sweater.You can always count on them to deliver the same thing consistently. ...

By Glen Boyd So what seperated the 2007, $170. a ticket version of Neil Young in concert, from previous models seen and heard at considerably more reasonable prices in past years?In a lot of ways not much, truth be told. Although -- unlike past Neil Young shows where you usually got either an exclusively...

By T. Michael Testi There are few musicians who are harder to put a finger on than Neil Young. As one of the artists that came out of the sixties, and with all that he accomplished with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and all of his ...

By Glen Boyd I guess I should confess right upfront to being something of a Johnny-Come-Lately to the Wilco party. My introduction to Jeff Tweedy and company came at the behest of a friend who -- knowing that my musical center lies somewhere inbetween the songwriting of people like Springsteen and Nei...

By Charlie Doherty The rarity "Dirty Frank," -- which hadn't been played since 1994 -- is followed by the often covered Neil Young anthem "Rockin' In The Free World" and show closer "Yellow Ledbetter." Show number three (July 23, 2006) has another Neil ...

By Mark Saleski There are a pile more of these anecdotes, from the timeless Rust Never Sleeps (nestled between memories of learning how to drive a stick shift in my sister's Volkswagen and the horror of a family member's alcoholism) to my friend Steve doing a hilarious Neil Young-meets-Johnny Mathis ve...

By Glen Boyd The story here is Neil did an acoustic show at Massey Hall in Toronto in 1970, debuting much of the material that would eventually show up on Harvest. The set that night was so good that Neil's producer implored him to put out this concert, rather than the album which eventually became Harves...

By Holly Hughes The Harvest Moon/ Prairie Wind Neil Young, I should add, not the Rockin’ in the Free World Neil Young.) The meandering “Beachcomber Blues” may not sound all that bluesy, but its acoustic ramble tosses off modest instrumental ...

By Al Barger Neil Young Living with War - "In the Beginning" Reprise Album Rock, Hard Rock, Singer/Songwriter. Unreformed hawkish Hoosier hillbilly and sometimes candidate Al Barger runs the still squeezin' down the psychodelic Kentucky moonshine at ...

By El Bicho The long-awaited Neil Young Archives have finally been released to the public with Live ... A month after releasing 1969’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, ... a live version from this tour was on Young's 1975 album Tonight's the Night. ...

By El Bicho As part of his arrangement to join the CSN, Young was allowed to carry on with his solo career, so during February and March of 1970 he went on tour to support Everybody Knows with Crazy Horse (Danny Whitten on guitar, Billy Talbot on bass, Ralph Molina on drums) and producer Jack Nitzsche on...

By A.L. Harper I also find influences in Neil Diamond, Neil Young, U2, and Oasis. Oasis comes up with melodies that at first I think are silly, but four listens later, I love. I guess what I'm saying is they humanize song-writing. ...

By Glen Boyd But this set is noteworthy for yet another reason. Live At The Fillmore East 1970 in fact, represents the first available live recording of the original Crazy Horse, when Neil was sharing guitar and vocals with the late Danny Whitten. The subject of several latter Neil Young songs such as "T...

By Glen Boyd Neil Young, fresh off a summer long concert tour with bandmates Crosby, Stills and Nash, and his annual appearance with Willie Nelson at this year's Farm Aid, will have two new CD releases in record stores in time for the Christmas season.

By Anna Creech Riviera's musical palette contains shades of artists you already love (Neil Young, Rolling Stones, George Harrison) blended together with colors unique to each of the band's three singer-songwriters. On Capital, the band stretches its sounds past the distorted Americana that perva...

By Eric Whelchel A co-worker relocated to Israel today. This in itself is no big deal - he’s Israeli-born, Israeli-educated, and Israeli commando-trained. But tucked under his arm as he boarded the plane and it began its long flight to the Middle East was my copy of Jimmy McDonough’s epic Neil Young biograp...

By Glen Boyd I've seen Neil Young numerous times, both solo, with Crazy Horse, and with Crosby Stills & Nash. ... last really great record, Rust Never Sleeps had come some ten years prior. ... Hey Hey, My My 21. On Broadway 22. Tonight's The Night ...

By A.L. Harper This week's BotW is the Glasgow based Futuro. Three of the nicest men I have ever met. I know that's not very rock & roll but what's wrong with being nice? They are funny, intelligent and talented. They drove forty miles to see me so I wouldn't get lost in Glasgow and even bought me a cup of coff...