{"id":2505,"date":"2011-07-26T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2011-07-26T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:02:51","slug":"neil-young-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/neil-young-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NEIL YOUNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2506\" title=\"Neil-Young-A-Treasure-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Neil-Young-A-Treasure-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Neil-Young-A-Treasure-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Neil-Young-A-Treasure-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>N<\/strong><strong>EIL YOUNG<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>A Treasure <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Reprise]<\/p>\n<p>By the mid-1980s, Neil Young had effectively gone rogue. The upstart Geffen label may have thought it signed a reliable rock legend, but Young handed the company in short order an electronic-music experiment (<em>Trans<\/em>), a rockabilly album (<em>Everybody\u2019s Rockin\u2019<\/em>) and a straightforward country effort (<em>Old Ways<\/em>). Geffen responded by suing Young for not sounding sufficiently like himself, and the artist took his case directly to audiences. When Geffen balked at releasing <em>Old Ways<\/em>, Young and his country outfit the International Harvesters took their show on the road. (He eventually returned to his \u201970s label home, Reprise.) Young was as passionate about his new country songs as he was about anything he\u2019d done during his legendary run of \u201970s classics, and his commitment is audible on these 12 previously unreleased tracks from his 1984 and 1985 tours.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Treasure<\/em> continues Young\u2019s ongoing series of archival releases, which has seen him assembling the enormous 2009 box set <em>Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972<\/em> as well as stand-alone albums like the same year\u2019s <em>Dreamin\u2019 Man Live \u201992<\/em> (which drew on acoustic performances from that year) and this new collection. He\u2019s in fine voice here, backed by country ringers like steel guitarist Ben Keith, pianist Hargus \u201cPig\u201d Robbins and drummer Karl Himmel. The track listing includes several fine previously unheard songs, including the starkly moving \u201cNothing Is Perfect\u201d and the blistering first single, \u201cGrey Riders.\u201d Ever the picky audiophile, Young is releasing <em>A Treasure<\/em> on high-resolution Blu-Ray disc as well as CD, vinyl and digital download. \u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEIL YOUNG A Treasure [Reprise] By the mid-1980s, Neil Young had effectively gone rogue. The upstart Geffen label may have thought it signed a reliable rock legend, but Young handed the company in short order an electronic-music experiment (Trans), a rockabilly album (Everybody\u2019s Rockin\u2019) and a straightforward country effort (Old Ways). Geffen responded by suing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1976,196,1634,1082,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}