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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
June 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young + Promise of the Real: Earth
Neil Young + Promise of the Real Earth Reprise/Warners Good ole, weird ole Neil – he’s nothing if not that happy-hippie that’s forever ornery-seeming, wilful and whim-following, he’s a bag of contradictions – so it makes sense, as only it could in Neil’s world, to give up a life-long love of marijuana smoking and then […]Archive
February 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 950
Neil Young, Freedom (1989) It’s one of the first Neil Young albums I ever heard, and owned. I had the tape. Bought it a year or so after it was released – I’d been turned on to Neil Young by the Ragged Glory album, reading a review of it sold me – I had to […]Archive
March 18, 2013 by Simon Sweetman