It’s so rare I have a new CD in my life – what with this the age of the MP3, that horrible technology that is ruining everything – but Neil’s new one is pretty terrific. Usually a Neil album is one thing or the other: pretty and accoustic or dirty and electric. Some of the better ones (After the Gold Rush, Freedom even Harvest to a certain extent) were both. As is this. There’s some Nashville-ish country tunes like on Prairie Wind and tunes like “Dirty Old Man” as rough edged and idiotic as any past Crazy Horse gem. There are also two tracks clocking in over 10 minutes. Neil fans really owe it to themselves to pick this up – there’s a lot of good stuff here.
