![]() It's not very likely that you'll enjoy everything he's done, but he's well worth getting to know. He's only returned to his high-powered roots-rock during the past few years. During the 70s and 80s he made stabs at country-western, blues, industrial music, synth pop, and even rockabilly, often working with the band Crazy Horse (which he'd discovered and renamed in 1969). He quit the band after making just one studio album with them (Deja Vu), and then occasionally rejoined Stills and the others as the years went by. ![]() By 1969 he'd begun a solo career and also joined Crosby, Stills & Nash, appearing with them at the Woodstock festival. ![]() In the early 60s Young kicked around on the Ontario and upstate New York rock circuit, working for a while with a very young Rick James he then moved to California and by 1966 was, with Steve Stills, a leader of the influential Buffalo Springfield. His nasal, idiosyncratic tenor vocals, occasionally oblique and sarcastic lyrics, and rudimentary, but extraordinarily gritty and compelling lead guitar technique don't go over well with everyone, but they do mark him as a true original. But it's a whitewash: Young hasn't just been running around forever making the same loud rock records - he's metamorphosed from one style to another over a career that spans three decades, trying so hard to be innovative that he's occasionally confused his own fans. In the last couple of years Neil Young has become the Ol' Gramps of grunge music, trotting out on stage to prove to the skeptics that real rockers never get old. With Angels - Mirror Ball - Broken Arrow - Greendale - Prairie Wind. Life - This Note's For You - Freedom - Ragged Glory. Horse - Harvest - Time Fades Away - Tonight's The Night - Zuma. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - After The Goldrush - Crazy
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