Neil Young: Heart of Gold by Harvey Kubernik

Author:Harvey Kubernik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Music Sales
Published: 2016-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Neil elected to spend most of the summer of 1997 headlining the HORDE festival, a sort of jam-band road show that also featured the piano-driven Ben Folds Five. The eponymous leader of the group was another of Neil’s Gen X acolytes.

Ben Folds: I must have done forty dates with Neil, and he taught me something just by my being able to sit side-stage and watch his shows. All us whippersnappers were trying to make small clubs feel like a coliseum, and there he was making these coliseums and the big, Blockbuster Pavilion kind of places into living rooms. There’s a vibration about what he does that’s so pure and has so much integrity that I think it just transcends. He can write a bad song and it’s OK. It’s like an old blues artist or something; they’re not sitting there going through every lyric and every note. It’s more about the bigger picture. (2005)

The HORDE trek was a tipping point for Neil Young, expanding his audience demographic as his catalog received additional airplay on Americana and college radio channels.

After over thirty years on that hard road, he continued to fascinate and inspire his fans; and not just the geeks but pony-tailed university professors, rack jobbers, and retail vendors, jaded artist managers, and even those woe-begotten second engineers who still crowded the stage or worked with him behind the scenes. You’d think they would have tired by now, but Neil Young remained an artist of endless fascination.

The decade ended with the release of a third CSNY studio album, Looking Forward, a collection of tracks recorded between 1996 and 1999 after Neil had offered to play guitar on a Stephen Stills song he liked. The resulting album, though, was a letdown to just about everyone and is probably the least-heard CSNY release. Younger music fans tended to dismiss it as a bunch of rich hippies looking back on their magic carpet ride. If the music had lived up to the title, this might not have been the last CSNY album to date.

Scott Atkin: With these volatile musicians in each other’s company once again, what would we the listening public get? A fine follow-up to the legend that is Déjà Vu—or the final nail in the coffin after the disappointing American Dream? Upon its release back in 1999, I didn’t give Looking Forward much of a chance to make an impression on me. I knew it was going to be bad, so why waste my time? I checked out the Neil cuts and moved on.

Now in 2015 upon further review this album is quite enjoyable! All songs cover usual CSNY ground, but each member performs quality songs with their memorable harmonies marvelously still intact. The title track is just another great Neil Young song. (2015)

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