1. The Painter
2. No Wonder
3. Falling Off The Face Of The Earth
4. Far From Home
5. It’s A Dream
6. Prairie Wind
7. Here For You
8. This Old Guitar
9. He Was The King
10. When God Made Me
Total time: 52 minutes
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Prairie Wind
Neil Young
Reprise
Young always has suffered (to many of his fans’ delight) from a split musical personality: acoustic and electric. Or as critic Robert Christgau once put it, genteel and sloppy.
Over the course of 35 years’ worth of music, he’s released five mellow, predominately acoustic solo albums: “Harvest,” 1972; “Comes a Time,” 1978; “Harvest Moon,” 1992; “Silver and Gold,” 2000; and “Prairie Wind.” Along with genre experiments in techno, rockabilly, country, blues and soul (“Trans,” “Everybody’s Rockin’,” “Old Ways,” “This Note’s for You” and “Are You Passionate?”), such output complements his perhaps better-known body of electric work.
“Prairie” is a little different than the other laid-back albums, in that a few numbers go for a country-soul sound using horns, arranged by Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns. Although brass was used to great effect on 1988’s above-mentioned “Note,” this marks the first time the singer/songwriter/guitarist has incorporated it into his acoustic material – a bold move that initially catches the listener off guard, but one that pays off.
Aside from the great music (thanks in no small part to co-producer and frequent cohort Ben Keith’s pedal steel, dobro and slide work), there are some great lyrics, no doubt influenced heavily by Young’s brain aneurysm and his father’s final days.
Special guests include Emmylou Harris, the Fisk University Jubilee Singers gospel choir and a 13-piece string section.
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