release date: Sep. 19, 1970
format: cd (1987 reissue)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [4,08]
producer: Neil Young, David Briggs with Kendall Pacios
label: Reprise Records - nationality: Canada
Tracklist: 1. "Tell Me Why" (4 / 5) - 2. "After the Gold Rush" (4 / 5) - 3. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (5 / 5) - 4. "Southern Man" (4 / 5) - 5. "Till the Morning Comes" - 6. "Oh, Lonesome Me" - 7. "Don't Let It Bring You Down" (4 / 5) - 8. "Birds" (3,7 / 5) - 9. "When You Dance I Can Really Love" (4 / 5) - 10. "I Believe in You" - 11. "Cripple Creek Ferry" (4 / 5)
3rd studio album by Neil Young is a solo release, however, Crazy Horse members guitarist Danny Whitten, also credited harmony vocals and co-lead vocal on "Cinnamon Girl", bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina (also harmony vocals) all contribute on the album resembling the line-up as was the case on the previous release. Aside Crazy Horse also Nils Lofgren is credited on guitar, piano, and vocals, Stephen Stills as vocalist, Jack Nietzche on piano, and bassist Greg Reeves are co-musicians here.
The album contains so many great songs - and you really need this in any pop / rock music collection including the 1970s. With this he stands out as one of the few who took folk rock and singer / songwriting into a new era - making it contemporary. His previous two solo albums after leaving Buffalo Springfield, the homonymous debut (that links him very much with the material he wrote for Buffalo Springfield) and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, had already proven that he was the driving force of Buffalo Springfield and much more than just a gifted and promising singer and songwriter of folk and country. The album is naturally enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
1970 Favourite releases: 1. Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory - 2. Van Morrison Moondance - 3. Neil Young After the Gold Rush
