{"id":6806,"date":"2012-06-22T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:17:02","slug":"neil-young-crazy-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/neil-young-crazy-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young & Crazy Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"N<\/strong>eil Young &\u00a0<\/strong>Crazy Horse<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Americana\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Reprise]<\/p>\n

The stories adults tell children are often sanitized. In the original version (spoiler alert!), Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten by the big, bad wolf after being tricked into cannibalizing her grandmother. The jealous villain who orders Snow White\u2019s murder isn\u2019t her stepmother, but her mother. The same is true of the folk songs we learned as kids, many of which have origins far darker or more complex than we suspected. Few music teachers would dare let children in on the overtly socialist aspects of Woody Guthrie\u2019s \u201cThis Land Is Your Land,\u201d or explain that the \u201cshe\u201d in \u201cShe\u2019ll Be Coming \u2019Round the Mountain\u201d is the chariot believers expect Jesus to be driving for the Second Coming.<\/p>\n

For their latest, Neil Young, his erstwhile backing band Crazy Horse (teamed for the first time since 2003\u2019s Greendale<\/em>), and a tastefully deployed vocal choir are here to disabuse us of our folk-song misapprehensions. In typical flamethrowing fashion, Young and company sink their lupine teeth into the above songs (the latter\u00a0titled \u201cJesus\u2019 Chariot\u201d here), along with tales of death by drowning\u00a0(\u201cClementine\u201d), stabbing (\u201cTom Dula\u201d), hanging (\u201cGallows Pole\u201d) and \u2026 well, whatever it is that gives the narrator of \u201cOh Susannah\u201d his final delirious vision. A native Canadian and thus at least arguably a subject of Her Majesty, Young demonstrates his nerviness by ending an album called Americana<\/em> with a mashup of \u201cGod Save the Queen\u201d and \u201cMy Country, \u2019Tis of Thee.\u201d America\u2019s own origins are as complicated as anyone\u2019s. \u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neil Young &\u00a0Crazy Horse Americana\u00a0 [Reprise] The stories adults tell children are often sanitized. In the original version (spoiler alert!), Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten by the big, bad wolf after being tricked into cannibalizing her grandmother. The jealous villain who orders Snow White\u2019s murder isn\u2019t her stepmother, but her mother. The same is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4123,3754,4122,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806"}],"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=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6808,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions\/6808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}