release date: Nov. 12, 1968
format: cd (1987 reissue)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,12]
producer: Neil Young, David Briggs; Jack Nitzsche; Ry Cooder
label: Reprise Records / Warner - nationality: Canada
Tracklist: 1. "The Emperor of Wyoming" - 2. "The Loner" - 3. "If I Could Have Her Tonight" - 4. "I've Been Waiting for You" - 5. "The Old Laughing Lady" - 6. "String Quartet From Whiskey Boot Hill" - 7. "Here We Are in the Years" - 8 "What Did You Do to My Life" - 9 "I've Loved Her So Long" - 10 "The Last Trip to Tulsa"
Solo studio album debut by Neil Young after the split with Buffalo Springfield. It seems like a tentative yet unfinished or somehow unfocused collection of songs. Maybe it really shows how he struggled in freeing himself from just writing songs for a band of very different musicians. It features some strong folk rock and singer / songwriter tracks but it also lacks consistency of quality in the songwriting. Some songs are sheer country songs, and several songs sound like suited more [leftovers?] for Buffalo Springfield.
[ If any... Neil Young is god ]
