Neil Young Albums ReviewsIn 2004 Rustie, Mike "Expecting 2 Fly" Cordova posted a series of articles on his experience listening to all of Neil Young's albums in chronological order. Here is one in the series. For a complete listing, see Albums in Order reviews.
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:51:36 -0800 (PST) 1988 was a very busy year for me. I had started my new job
(the job I still have today) in mid '87 and I also had
lots and lots of family occurrences and responsibilities.
As a result, Neil's return to Reprise records came as a
surprise to me when I heard a song from his new album on
the radio in the spring of '88, Ten Men Working. Wow, that
sounded different to me. Thus was my introduction to the
latest 'genre' project in Neil Young's career, this one
'blues' music. I am quite sure that blues purists would
cringe at anyone calling TNFY a blues album, but some of
the tunes are pretty bluesy, like I Can't Believe Your
Lyin' and Coupe DeVille.
Because of commitments in my personal life, I totally
missed all the live shows in this tour. I did get the
album though as soon as it came out and played it 'over
and over again'; that Neil...
Horns. Bluesy melodies. A sort of novelty-song title
track. Some great songwriting and good singing, mixed with
more ordinary tunes; Neil Young may have returned to
Reprise, but he was still exploring extremes outside
expectations and defining new facets in his career
catalog. It has some great songs. Twilight is sublime. The
late Steve Lawrence's lead tenor sax is pretty wonderful.
BTW, some of the musicians on this album were on Crazy
Horse's Crazy Moon album which also featured Neil on some
tracks.
I'm glad we have this album. I very much enjoyed listening
to This Note's For You today.
Mike - Expecting To Fly
From: Mike Cordova
To: rust@rustlist.org
Subject: Albums in order: This Note's For You
For more of Expecting To Fly's reviews, see the Albums in Order series.
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