Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana (June 2012)

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:40 pm

via Rolling Stone Wrote:

Neil Young and Crazy Horse will release their new LP Americana on June 5th. It's their first album together since Greendale in 2003, and their first album with the full Crazy Horse line-up of Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina and Frank "Poncho" Sampedro since Broken Arrow in 1996. The songs on Americana are all classic American folk songs, including "This Land Is Your Land," "Gallows Pole," "Tom Dooley" and "Clementine."

At the Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year, Young talked about the album. "A very young choir of children plays with Crazy Horse [on the album,]" he said. "They're songs we all know from kindergarden, but Crazy Horse has rearranged them, and they now belong to us."

"What ties these songs together is the fact that while they may represent an America that may no longer exist," says a press release announcing the new album."The emotions and scenarios behind these songs still resonate with what’s going on in the country today with equal, if not greater impact nearly 200 years later. The lyrics reflect the same concerns and are still remarkably meaningful to a society going through economic and cultural upheaval, especially during an election year. They are just as poignant and powerful today as the day they were written."

The disc was recorded at Audio Casa Blanca and was produced by Neil Young and John Hanlon with Mark Humphreys.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse made their first live appearance since 2004 last month at the MusicCares tribute to Paul McCartney in Los Angeles. They played "I Saw Her Standing There" that many critics called a highlight of the star-studded show, though the band has released no touring plans. "I honestly have not heard a solitary thing about touring," Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina wrote on his Facebook page last month.

Here is the complete track-listing for Americana:

"Oh Susannah"
"Clementine "
"Tom Dooley"
" Gallows Pole "
"Get A Job "
"Travel On "
"High Flyin’ Bird "
"She’ll Be Comin ’Round The Mountain"
"This Land Is Your Land "
"Wayfarin’ Stranger "
"God Save The Queen"

discostu · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:09 pm

mutty · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:17 pm

This will either be my favorite album or a complete wreck.

mutty · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:18 pm

OR just possibly both.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:20 pm

No "Froggy Went a-Courtin."?

This has Bad Idea Jeans written all over it

FT · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:56 am

Guess we'll have to wait until the expanded deluxe reissue for "Yankee Doodle."

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:56 pm

mutty Wrote:

This will either be my favorite album or a complete wreck.

That was my initial reaction.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:44 pm

Thrasher's Wheat had this:

Quote:

The album cover design has a fascinating back story.

The Americana cover is based on a photograph of Geronimo driving a car on June 11, 1905, near Ponca City, Okla. The car is a Locomobile, and the Indian in full headdress to Geronimo's left is Edward Le Clair Sr., a Ponca Indian. When Geronimo died in 1909, he was buried in the vest.

Apparently, according to album notes, the Americana cover was rescued from the 2010 warehouse fire from an earlier design in 1975. The faces of Neil Young, Billy Talbot (Geronimo), Ralph Molina, & Poncho Sampedro were pasted over the original photo for a cover that was never used.

Also, they posted DM and NY doing "Oh! Susanna" from the Bridge School Benefit 2011.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

this sounds unbelievably terrible

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:29 pm

Senator LooGAR Wrote:

No "Froggy Went a-Courtin."?

This has Bad Idea Jeans written all over it

I didn't look at the tracklist before I read your post and was thinking..."There goes ol' Gar, running another joke into the ground" but no, you are beyond right: "She'll Be Comin Round The Mountain"?! Just fucking shoot me now.

Ol Froggy shoulda gone a-scalpin' while they were recording this.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:16 am

This is something I will probably listen to once and then slam my fingers in a door. This fucking band gets together once a decade and they give me "This Land is Your Land"?!

I hate this and the album cover as well.

seafoam · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:32 am

Dylan doing Christmas, Springsteen yoddlin', Young doing kiddie folk with his fuckin' band o'chops . . . I'll stick to Papillon's cajun songs and ol' shanties of drinking and smoking and lassie goadin'

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:50 pm

So...the uh, booklet/liner notes leaked?

http://download.wbr.com/neilyoung/booklet.pdf

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:28 pm

Pre-order is available in various packages

nobody · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:46 pm

And all of a sudden I remember why I really can never quite get into Neil Young in the first place.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:32 pm

nobody Wrote:

And all of a sudden I remember why I really can never quite get into Neil Young in the first place.

Because he did an album of folk standards?

jsh · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:52 pm

i'm prepared to enjoy this

DumpJack · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:29 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

nobody Wrote:

And all of a sudden I remember why I really can never quite get into Neil Young in the first place.

Because he did an album of folk standards?

Yeah, I openly hate this idea but that's just stupid.

nobody · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:00 pm

No, not really so much the folk standards thing, although I feel like the song selection does make it look pretty horrible. I really just don't much care for more than a stray song here and there from him and get annoyed with the canonization of everything Neil Young in some circles. And his tendency to go off and make theme albums which endears him to many I find mostly annoying... although I did kinda like a track or two on that rockabilly one he did way back when.

nobody · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:01 pm

Also... if hating an idea an artist comes up with isn't a good way to be reminded you don't like said artist... I'm not sure what is.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:09 pm

kinda wish "camptown races" was gonna be on here

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:59 pm

I guess I'm willing to give him a pass because for the most part I've really enjoyed (almost) everything he's put out. Also, I know these aren't going to be direct covers of the songs. That vid with Dave Matthews attests to that. Skeleton is there, but Neil added some meat and guts to it. Not saying its gonna be an amazing record, but I think it could be interesting. I guess I also see this as different than say what Rod Stewart did with the "Great American Songbook" albums.

But then again, I dig Pete Seeger so I guess maybe I'm geared towards stuff like this.

jsh · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:35 am

and it's with the horse, so i'm gonna give it a chance

deragoku · **Joined:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:32 am **Posts:** 3

I really just do many stray songs from him here and there without too much care and Neil Young all the canonized annoyed in some circles.

jsh · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:00 pm

pardon?

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