release date: Oct. 5, 1980
format: cd (2003 remaster)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,06]
producer: David Briggs, Tim Mulligan, Neil Young
label: Reprise / Warner Music Group - nationality: Canada
Track highlights: 1. "Little Wing" (5 / 5) - 2. "The Old Homestead" - 3. "Lost In Space" - 9. "Hawks & Doves"
10th studio album by Neil Young is perhaps an attempt to make something with both qualities of Comes a Time and the well-received live albums with electrified folk rock. The result is not one of the best of Neil Young albums. Although it's not entirely bad, it signals the start of a period of the 1980s of experimentation and lesser albums from Young. The first track "Little Wing" is almost better than the famous Hendrix track (this is not a Hendrix cover, though) and is in itself a small masterpiece but that high standard is not kept. The style is mostly singer / songwriter folk and country rock but some of the last tracks on the album forecasts his attempts in the 1980s with blues rock, and although this isn't bad, it's neither really an unforgettable Neil Young release.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]
