With today's release of 'Dume,' we look at how, over the last five years, Neil Young has been filling in the gaps of his discography
There’s a reason Columbia/Legacy Records has given its reissues of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis the umbrella title ofIt’s a back-handed acknowledgement, decades after the original debates, that the bootleggers may have been right. When rock’n’roll bootlegs became widespread in the 1970s, their advocates were arguing, “Yeah, sure, they’re illegal, but if the record companies and their artists refuse to release some of the best music of our time, unlawful work-arounds are justified.
which was ready to be put out in 1977. Containing six of his best songs , it would have been a high peak in the mountain ridge of his discography. This was a stop on his 1970-71 tour, where he performed alone with acoustic guitar, piano and harmonica. Some songs were drawn from his three solo records to-date plus his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, but more than half were unreleased at the time, a reflection of his startling productivity in those years. Compositions such as “Heart of Gold,” “Old Man,” “The Needle and the Damage Done” and “See the Sky About To Rain” were first heard in these shows.
Instead he decided to release some tapes he’d recorded with Keith, Nils Lofgren, Molina and Talbot in 1973 beforeA lot of the singing and playing was off-key and ragged, but these songs about musicians burnt out from touring, drugs and lost idealism were the most emotionally powerful work Young had ever done. He played these tapes andin 1975, long after the five musicians who made it had already road-tested the material as the Santa Monica Flyers in 1973. The L.A.
Some pressings of the original CD came with a bonus DVD of Young presenting the whole album at a Dublin concert in solo-acoustic arrangements that made the words easier to follow. Better yet, Young introduced each number with a spoken monologue that fleshed out the characters’ back stories and made the whole fictional world easier to imagine.
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