![]() Much of the music does indeed fulfill the rural promise of its title, either by relying upon the studio polish of Nashville cats or the ragged ramble of Young's jerry-rigged California barn. Its overwhelming success - thanks to the number one hit "Heart of Gold," a sun-bleached country-rocker that opened up the highway for the likes of America, and becoming the biggest-selling record of 1972 - camouflages its slightly misshapen structure. He had already received a boost from being recruited into Crosby, Stills & Nash, with After the Gold Rush climbing into the Top Ten months after CSN&Y's Deja Vu went to number one, but Harvest was something different, simultaneously slicker and more eccentric than its predecessor. The album is also interpreted as a declaration of love to his wife Pegi Young (whom he divorced in 2014, after 36 years of marriage).Harvest sits at the foundation of Neil Young's legacy, a blockbuster that turned Neil Young into a superstar in his own right. But this is love seen through the eyes of a middle-aged man: love may be easy to find, but keeping and treasuring it is a lot harder. Harvest Moon is sentimental, but it never becomes cheap and it contains some of Young’s strongest songs, of which many are about love. The resulting Harvest Moon is an album that contains beautiful songs, like the lovely, moving title-song. Because the album was recorded with many of the same musicians that also played on the classic 1972 album Harvest, the album is oftentimes regarded to be a sequel to Harvest. The instruments that also played a significant part on albums like Harvest, Comes a Time and Old Ways. Recovering from a case of tinnitus, Young went about the work with Ben Keith, accompanied by an acoustic guitar, piano and banjo. On November 2nd, 1992, 25 years ago today, the resulting 20th Young-album Harvest Moon was released. Harvest MoonĪfter the tour, in September 1991, Young went into the studio to record his next album. In 1990 the album Ragged Glory (recorded with crazy Horse) was released, which was followed by a tour and a subsequent live-album, Weld. The song Rockin’ In The Free World became a modest hit and, partially inspired by the fall on the Iron Curtain and the ending of the Cold War, even turned into an anthem. This would eventually turn into the album Freedom, which was released a half year after the mini-LP. In 1989 the mini-LP Eldorado was released in Japan and Australia. In November of 1988 Atlantic Records released the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album American Dream, which was not met with great enthusiasm. The first album for Reprise was the bluesoriented album This Note’s For You, which, with the album’s title-song, even contained a hit-song ( “Ain’t singin’ for Pepsi, ain’t singin’ for Coke, I don’t sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke”). Needless to say, the contract was not prolonged. Another three albums would be released by Geffen: Old Ways, Landing On Water and Life. Young counter-sued for breach of contract, for limiting the artist’s artistic freedom. The reply (as could be predicted) was: “Neil Young by definition makes Neil Young-albums”. It led to a lawsuit: David Geffen claimed three million dollars, because Young didn’t make typical “Neil Young-albums”. The records were badly received and sold (very) poorly. Everybody’s Rockin’, which contained rock ‘n roll, was next. the first album he made for Geffen was Trans, an album filled with electronic music. In 1982 he signed a deal with, at that time recently founded, Geffen Records. Neil Young goes electric and rock ‘n roll ![]()
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