Prairie Wind
For Prairie Wind, Neil Young returns to familiar ground, the country-rock sound of Seventies discs such as Harvest and Comes a Time. It's his simplest music in a while, but it's effective. He spends the album saying goodbye to his friends, his family, the Canadian landscape and Elvis, in a reflective mood that suits the old-timey acoustic groove.
Young cut Prairie Wind in Nashville, while commuting to New York to get treatment for a near-fatal brain aneurysm. His brush with mortality colors the new songs, as does the recent death of his father. Young sings about the comforts of family life - his kids in Here for You, his parents in Far From Home.
The music goes down easy, with longtime cohort Ben Keith on steel guitar; The lyrics are on the cozy side, but Young's acoustic guitar can snap and bite - especially in the excellent Prairie Wind, his tribute to his father, which sounds like a countrified Tonight's the Night. ~ Full Review at Rolling Stone
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