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Neil Young: Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968

by Zach Schonfeld

[5.Jan.09] :. Neil Young's newest archival release is the clear precursor to last year's Live at Massey Hall: a portrait of a young artist plotting his solo course.

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Live recordings flourish in spite of technology

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[19.Nov.08] :. It has served as a star-making vehicle for everyone from James Brown to Peter Frampton. It went through an unplugged phase that allowed listeners to glimpse their pop heroes in a more informal...

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Film DVD Review

CSNY / Déjà Vu

by Stuart Henderson

[4.Nov.08] :. Neil Young's politically-charged documentary is moving without being cloying, dark without being despairing, and clever when it could have been just plain obvious.

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E.S.L.: Eye Contact

by Chris Conaton

[28.Aug.08] :. A band that consists of piano, cello, violin, and drums. An all-female group unafraid to cover Neil Young and the Beastie Boys. A song that compares a lover to Secretariat. E.S.L. is all of these things.

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Yes, Nils Lofgren is an E Street Band guitarist, but he has his music, too

by Timothy Finn [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Aug.08] :. One of the most recognizable parts of one of Neil Young’s most beloved songs is the piano in “After the Gold Rush.” Nils Lofgren was 18 - with no piano training - when he recorded...

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Capsule Reviews

Yellow Hand: Yellow Hand

by Filmore Mescalito Holmes

[22.Jul.08] :. Featuring covers of still unreleased Young and Stills demos, many in 1970 thought this was a lost Buffalo Springfield album. More knew better.

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Neil Young is putting his past on Blu-ray

by Brandon Bailey [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[14.May.08] :. Rebellious rocker Neil Young hates the sound of compact discs. So he waited 15 years for a different technology, which he says will allow him to share his life’s work the way he wants his fans...

 

Five milestones in the career of an artist who defies boundaries

by Ben Edmonds [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[26.Nov.07] :. Ever since the Beatles introduced self-determination into the pop music process, pop’s insatiable desire for more of the same has been challenged by a series of inspired musical chameleons...

 

Neil Young brilliantly journeys through his past

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[6.Nov.07] :. LOS ANGELES—You’d be forgiven if you confused last Tuesday for a randomly selected date from 1975, what with the Eagles issuing their first new album in almost three decades the same day...

 

Neil Young: Chrome Dreams II

by Michael Franco

[22.Oct.07] :. Young has finally figured out that instead of making two or three lackluster albums followed by a solid one, he can apply the same technique to a single LP. If ever an album were custom made for iTunes, this is it.

 

Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)

by Wayne Robins

Together, Neil Young and Jonathan Demme make the graying of the quintessential baby boom musician a triumph to be celebrated.

 
 
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