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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Laurel Canyon: DVD

Laurel Canyon Director: Alison Ellwood Canyon Films, LLC / Madman It’s hard to see this as anything more than a boomer circle-jerk: Oooh, we had the best music didn’t we… Laurel Canyon is this near-mythical place in songs, in albums, in bands’ biographies. It is real. It was a place; a place where a large […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 60s, 70s, Alison Ellwood, Canyon Films, Crosby Still and Nash, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Review, DVD, DVD Review, Eagles, Film, Film Review, Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell, Laurel Canyon, Laurel Canyon: DVD, Linda Ronstadt, Madman, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Doco, Neil Young, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Return To Greendale

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Return To Greendale Reprise I like Neil Young most of the time. Or even love Neil Young’s music most of the time. But I think I like him best when he’s being wilfully obscure, or chasing his own vision more directly than the handful of times when he’s just Making […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Crazy Horse, Greendale, Live, Neil Young, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Return To Greendale, Return To Greendale, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young: The Times EP

Neil Young The Times EP Reprise / Amazon Music Neil Young has been one of my favourite voices of lockdown – I quickly got bored with live-streamed house-gigs. Zooming in on musicians attempting to heal the world, make it a better place was fine in our first reaches of housebound panic but it felt, for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Archives, Demo, EP, Home Recording, Lockdown, Neil Young, Neil Young: The Times EP, Pandemic, Reprise / Amazon Music, The Times EP, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 52

Neil Young, Tonight’s The Night (1975) I guess I have about 10 favourite Neil Young albums – even albums of his that are pretty-much duds are sometimes on that list by the way. Such is my love for what he does and perhaps particularly the way he has gone about it. But one album I […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1975, LP, Neil Young, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, Tired Eyes, Tonight's the Night, Vinyl ·

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September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Daze That Used To Be: Ragged Glory Turns 30

Ragged Glory by Neil Young (with Crazy Horse) turns 30 today. Thirty years old! I remember walking into a store that is long gone in a town that was my home (but I’ve now lived longer anywhere else) to buy this on a format that was long ago dead and buried until a bit of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 30, Blog, Crazy Horse, Neil Young, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Ragged Glory, Ragged Glory Turns 30, The Daze That Used To Be, The Daze That Used To Be: Ragged Glory Turns 30, Thirty, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young: Homegrown

Neil Young Homegrown Reprise Neil Young’s archive boasts many hidden gems and over the last decade or so he’s been sharing more from that cellar door. There are whole albums, live gigs, alternate versions – and though there have been one or two slightly unnecessary live sets there is still so much more magic to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Archive, Homegrown, Neil Young, Neil Young: Homegrown, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Steve Gunn: Livin’ In Between – EP

Steve Gunn Livin’ In Between – EP (Independent/Bandcamp) Steve Gunn is back between records with another EP – this one a three-track covers set featuring a song each originally by Neil Young (Motion Pictures), Glenn Danzig (The Misfits’ Astro Zombies) and Michael Chapman (Among The Trees).
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Among The Trees, Astro Zombies, Bob Dylan, Carrie Snodgress, Covers, EP, Glenn Danzig, Livin' In Between, Livin’ In Between – EP, Michael Chapman, Motion Pictures, Neil Young, Steve Gunn, Steve Gunn: Livin’ In Between – EP, The Misfits, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young & Phil Baker: To Feel The Music

To Feel The Music: A Songwriter’s Mission To Save High-Quality Audio Neil Young & Phil Baker BenBella Books Neil Young has written three books (so far) and I’m sure there’s the threat of more. He was never going to write a conventional memoir – even though that’s what Waging Heavy Peace technically was, then there […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Songwriter’s Mission To Save High-Quality Audio, Analog, Archives, Autobiography, Book, Book Review, Digital Music, Memoir, Mp3, Neil Young, Neil Young & Phil Baker, Neil Young & Phil Baker: To Feel The Music, Phil Baker, Pono, Special Deluxe, To Feel The Music, To Feel The Music: A Songwriter’s Mission To Save High-Quality Audio, Vinyl, Waging Heavy Peace, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 135

Linda Ronstadt, Mad Love (1980) I only know a few Linda Ronstadt albums – but I love them. There are more for me to explore and this is one I’ve had forever, which I think I inherited from some of the last records left at my folks’ place – they got rid of their records […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Elvis Costello, Linda Ronstadt, Look Out For My Love, LP, Mad Love, Neil Young, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 135, Vinyl ·

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March 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The World Is Turnin’/I Hope Neil Young Don’t Turn Away

Neil Young said that just because his problems were meaningless that didn’t make them go away. He’s said a lot of things but he’s seldom been better than when he said that, when he wrote and recorded On The Beach, in a deep funk, in a sad state, in a depressed rage – his friends […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged After The Gold Rush, Neil Young, On The Beach, Poem, Poem: The World Is Turnin’/I Hope Neil Young Don’t Turn Away, Ragged Glory, The World Is Turnin’/I Hope Neil Young Don’t Turn Away, Tonight's the Night, Trans ·

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February 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 163

Neil Young, TRANS (1982) Neil Young is great – but they have thrown some curveballs over the years. This is one of their best albums though. I firmly believe that. It’s in the top 5 or 6 for me. They’ve made lots of crap along the way too of course, that’s just part of their process […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1982, Computer Age, LP, Neil Young, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 163, Trans, Transformer Man, Vinyl ·

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January 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 187

Daniel Lanois, Flesh and Machine (2014) This is the first Daniel Lanois solo album that I’ve owned on vinyl – but of course his name is all through my record collection. Peter Gabriel, U2, Eno, Emmylou Harris and many others – Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Neville Brothers, Willie Nelson – the list could go […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2014, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris, Eno, Flesh and Machine, Forest City, Guitarist, LP, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Producer, Record, Sling Blade, The Neville Brothers, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 187, U2, Vinyl, Willie Nelson ·
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