![]() I’ve docked another point to be consistent with how I marked Weld. There’s very little chat… the music does the talking. You know you’d be spellbound by watching the great man perform. You can listen to this album and imagine being there. The audience is relatively loud compared to the songs but the setting feels small and intimate. I’ve docked one point because I’d have preferred he’s released this album before the MTV Unplugged craze. Neil Young is very much at home playing these beautiful acoustic songs. Like A Hurricane this is very different from the version on Live Rust. Here are some videos of Neil Young performing live unplugged. Perfect for certain moods but it’s not the album for you if you want to party. If I’ve got a criticism of the songs and arrangements, it would be that it’s sad and downbeat. Perhaps it’s just me, but they seem for soulful in this setting. The other songs are captivating for their focus on the tunes and lyrics. Here it feels sad and mournful and instead of a blazing guitar solo it plays out with harmonica. Instead of toning it down and playing it on an acoustic guitar, we’re given a remarkable version where the full sound comes from a pump organ. If you are familiar with Neil Young, you’ll know that Like A Hurricane is possibly his best over-the-top guitar workout. The album starts with Young on his own but from Helpless onwards, Neil Young was joined by occasional Crazy Horse member Nils Lofgren and others to create a delicate, gentle, beautiful live album with one exception. It’s not what I’d have chosen but the quality of the songs is consistently high. ![]() It doesn’t include many of his best known acoustic tracks from After The Goldrush and Harvest but it shows what a great back catalogue Young has to draw on. I am particularly pleased that Helpless is included. Three tracks from the recent Harvest Moon album but otherwise this set-list is drawn from all corners off Neil Young’s musical history including Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. From Hank to Hendrix – 5:51 (Harvest Moon).Long May You Run – 5:22 (from the Stills & Young album Long May You Run). ![]()
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