Neil Young : A Letter Home

kind of love this album! totally a good time.

friend said the spoken word stuff gets a bit old after a few listens?

yeah but they're fairly brief (just at the start of each side). will probably skip em on future listens.

oh ok i thought they were between every song

I love that Needle of Death. But yeah it sounds like it was recorded with a DIY home record cutter. Why do this when you're pushing PONO?

in neil terms it kind of makes perfect sense

Anyone looking for Neil's actions to make "sense" clearly hasn't read Shakey close enough!

and/or is David Geffen

Monday night the 12th:

Neil Young and Jack White will discuss Neil's latest LP A Letter Home
With a live performance of 'Crazy' on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

They are gonna cut a record live onstage

Didn't tape it or stay up and watch it live. Maybe its on hulu or youtube already.

usually all of fallon is up on hulu

http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/segments/5851

So he just did "Crazy" . Nice rendition

up on spotify

this is really great

the decision to record this as it was i think was a real genius move, gives it a real unique place in neil's catalog and makes it feel like an album not just a selection of covers...

yeah, i don't know, the album requires a little more engagement from the listener than if it was recorded at t-bone burnett's studio or something, with expensive mics.
next crazy horse album should just be a rehearsal recorded on a boombox. (kind of serious about that)

IMO it would be a lot less interesting and distinctive and sort of haunting it if were recorded, say, with a pared down stray gators-ish hi-fi well done production
not saying that the covers are a bad idea or poorly sung, but i think it gains from the production, the same way Le Noise has a unique place among neil albums for me

haha also man "on the road again" is a hot mess!!