Neil Young - 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

Track Listing :

• Painter
• No Wonder
• Falling Off the Face of the Earth
• Far From Home
• It's A Dream
• Prairie Wind
• Here For You
• This Old Guitar
• He Was the King
• When God Made Me