Producers: Neil Young, John Hanlon, Mark Humphreys
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AllMusic · 4.0 / 5 · · 2026-07-26 16:23:19
MiskamNiretet · 4.0 / 5 · · 2026-05-06 19:38:00
Ozzy Osbourne · 4.0 / 5 · · 2025-07-25 17:38:52
MiskamNiretet · 4.0 / 5 · · 2025-05-11 23:04:13
Прекрасная дань стилю и при еще диск концептуальный что только радует меня.
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MiskamNiretet · 4.0 / 5 · · 2024-06-13 04:39:06
EveryDisc · 4.0 / 5 · · 2019-02-21 06:35:48
Neil Young has been amazingly prolific since 1967. And its intensity has never faded, and his current 73 years are absolutely no hindrance to him. And in 2012, he was basically a youngster. I won't even count which Neil Young album this is by number, but there were definitely more than 30 of them even then. The concept of the band Crazy Horse is fluid; its musicians participated on Neil's albums where the group was not credited, but here everything is honest - CH is on the cover. We have solid support in the form of Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, and Frank Sampedro. This is not just Neil with a guitar, but there are no choirs or orchestras here either. Let's play rock! Of course, if you start listening to the record, you will easily recognize some things. Indeed, Americana is a cover album. But these are not covers of modern well-known groups, even if you recognized Gallows pole performed by Led Zeppelin, or Johnny Cash's Wayfarin' stranger. The fact is that their famous versions were also reworkings - covers of folk numbers. Americana is a historical American style, in honor of which Neil Young named his album. The authors of 5 out of 11 compositions are known, but does that change the essence? After all, folk things also had an author once, they just disappeared into the expanses of time. In the style of dirty heavy garage folk-rock, Young resurrected forgotten songs soaked in the spirit of Western stories. Even with a couple of departures from the theme and without paying much tribute to the style itself, Neil created a single integral canvas. I especially appreciate it when a cover album not only has a thought and its own charisma of arrangements, but all the things are also conceptually united by a common idea. Young succeeded in this, both ideologically and musically. Yes, chaotic sound, dirt, spontaneity, but that's Neil! Aren't Oh Susannah, Gallows pole, or Clementine beautiful? There are absolutely no filler tracks on the record. 11 numbers are divided into good, excellent, and magnificent. I believe that it was on Americana that Young managed to perfectly cross hard, folk, and country in his garage. One of the best discs
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