![]() ![]() So cool.In the 15 months between the release of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush, Neil Young issued a series of recordings in different styles that could have prepared his listeners for the differences between the two LPs. It's a xerox copy of taped-together notebook sheets on which Neil has handwritten the lyrics. "I just loved the scribble sheet that came with the original vinyl album. Nearly turned to a negative of Neil passing an old woman on his way to aĬSNY gig, the two of them caught in apocalyptic shadows."įrom the Albums In Order Series by Mike "Expecting to Fly" Cordova, on After The Goldrush's artwork: The movie "After The Gold Rush" never got made. Said-no matter how reluctant he might have acted-he wanted to be. Truly great record rose to number 8 on the charts, making him a bonaįide star, something those around him since the Springfield days ![]() Your Heart," rose to number 33 on the charts.īuoyed by his greater recognizability courtesy of CSNY, Young's first Indicator of how unpredictable and uncompromising he could be inīringing his product to market. Likewise the fact that the eccentricĬraftsman in Neil heard "Oh Lonesome Me" as a single was an early Rather than burying his voice in the mix, began using it's unique edge Though panned by many critics, it is a grand example of how Young, Record's first single, "Oh Lonesome Me," a cover of the old Don GibsonĬountry tune, was the only cut saved from the early "country" sessions. Unravelling voices and pictures of lives and loves in transit. "Birds," and "I Believe In You" were sad and gorgeous ballads "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," "Don't Let It Bring You Down," Remember/Southern man don't need him 'round anyhow." The song evoked response from Southern rock kingpins Lynyrd Skynyrd in "Sweet Home Alabama": "I hope Neil Young will Neil's reaction to Kent State in "Ohio," even though it was underminedīy a simplistic vision of the American south as the land of Klansman and As a political song it had all the knee-jerk power of "Southern Man" was a sinewy, muscular rocker showcasing Young's Movement that would gain enormous power in the 1970's. Would stand as a prophecy of the rape of America and the world's naturalīeauty by the military/industrial complex, and of the eco-conservation The line "Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970's" Had misused it(which reminds me of the final scene of "Human Highway," "silver space-ship" come to take mother nature's seed from the dead who Keening as the lyrics detailed an apocalyptic natural nightmare,īeginning in a pastoral medieval setting and ending with the vision of a Title cut floated a haunting piano figure offset by Young's doomed "After The Gold Rush" was a long compositional leap for Young. Soon after, Neil invited Crazy Horse drummer Later, Neil and Crazy Horse stopped by to add vocals. When Nils' band, Grin, recorded its first record almost a year Lofgren's spunk and purity charmed Neil and he took Nils under his at a show at that city's Cellar Door club. Precocious and talented seventeen-year-old guitarist and songwriter from During Crazy Horse's first tour in '69, Young had met a Progress, disturbed by Crazy Horse's performance and especially by theĮscalating drug use of Danny Whitten. The studio to make a "country album." But Young was unhappy with the Rush." Young had taken Crazy Horse on a short tour and then gone into Sonic tapestry of Topanga Canyon, his third album, "After The Gold Interrupted by the breakup in which "Ohio" was penned, Young painted a "In the interim between CSNY's Carry On Tour and the CSNY spring tour, :"The above lines bring to mind man upsetting the delicate balance of nature with pollution, runaway technology, and threats of (nuclear) war."įrom the "Neil Young/Liner Notes" chapter by Brian Keizer on "After The Goldrush"'s somewhat split personality: In an analysis of the apocalyptic lyrics, Randy S. The title cut has provided endless speculation on the meaning of its lyrics. But soon I learned to appreciate the fine lyrics of 'Tell Me Why,' and the ingenious melody of 'Don't Let It Bring You Down.' " Maybe because it, together with 'When You Dance I Can Really Love', were the only tracks that were with an electric band. The first time I listened to it, I thought that 'Southern Man' was the only cool track on the album. Right in the sense that it changes and grows, along with the listener. One of Neil Young fans all time favorite album's, there is little argument that "After the Goldrush" defines that overused term "classic". After The Goldrush After The Goldrush by Neil Young
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