AMERICANA isn't exactly a new album; it's an album of American folk classics. AMERICANA isn't exactly that either, these songs aren't so much covers as much as reimaginings. The opening track for example, 'Oh Sussanah,' feels raw and built from the ground-up.
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The renditions here don't feel reverent, they feel like live, off-the-cuff, jam sessions. Many of these tracks feel like they were recording in one take, bringing an extra level of energy to these American standards. At its very best, Neil Young and Crazy Horse breathe new life into old classics. 'Jesus Chariot' for example, has been played to death, but its appearance here on AMERICANA is exciting and raw. These archaic public domain standards sound familiar but here, they are rarely boring.The album ends on an ironic 'God Save the Queen.' It feels like an appropriate and sarcastic ending to an album that never took itself too seriously.
Americana is the thirty-second studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on June 5, 2012. The album was Young's first collaboration with backing band Crazy Horse since their 2003 album, Greendale, and its associated tour. 1 Background; 2 Critical reception; 3 Track listing; 4 Personnel. Nov 27, 2015. As it turns out, the lumbering Americana was merely an amateurish rehearsal for the reuniting Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Just a handful of months after that collection of schoolhouse folk tunes, the band released the mammoth Psychedelic Pill, Neil's first-ever studio double-LP. It's not just the album itself.
Most the album is fun, but the rendition of 'This Land is Your Land' feels like it goes on too long. At its very worst, the album feels like a band simply warming up or doing a sound-check.Equal parts reverent, ironic, and raw, AMERICANA will leave you hoping that this isn't all that Neil Young and Crazy Horse have been working on lately.
Hopefully this album is just a studio warm-up for something more to come. Recommended tracks for sampling: 'Oh Sussanah,' 'Jesus Chariot (She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain),' and 'Wayfarin' Stranger.'
Most of editions of this album include videos for each song - they are inessential, but a nice bonus.Fans of Neil Young and Crazy Horse should enjoy the loose, 70's rock that the band throws down here. For the newcomers, this release won't give you a good reason to begin listening (it would be better to start with some of the earlier catalog).
June 22, 2012 Best Albums of 2012 So Far & Neil Young and Crazy Horse ReviewJim and Greg love lists so much they can't wait until the end of the year to make them. Tune in to hear The Best Albums of 2012So Far. Special Best Albums of 2012So FarDetermining a year-end“Best of”album list is the highlight of a critic's year.
Now that it's June, Jim and Greg get a jump on the winnowing down process with the Best Albums of 2012So Far. Here are their mid-year best picks: Jim. Spiritualized, Sweet Heart Sweet Light ( Fat Possum).
Kelly Hogan, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain ( Anti-). EI-P, Cancer 4 Cure ( Fat Possum). The dB's, Falling Off the Sky ( Bar/None). Alabama Shakes, Boys & Girls( ATO).
Killer Mike, R.A.P. Music ( Williams Street). Dr. John, Locked Down ( Nonesuch). Cloud Nothings, Attack on Memory ( Carpark). Screaming Females, Ugly ( 101 Distribution).
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Jack White, Blunderbuss ( Third Man/Columbia)Greg. Killer Mike, RAP Music ( Williams Street). Kelly Hogan, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain ( Anti-). Japandroids, Celebration Rock ( Polyvinyl). El-P, Cancer 4 Cure ( Fat Possum).
Dr. John, Locked Down ( Nonesuch). Screaming Females, Ugly ( Don Giovanni Records). Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel ( Epic).
Nick Waterhouse, Time's All Gone ( Innovative Leisure). Jack White, Blunderbuss ( Columbia).
Bobby Womack, The Bravest Man in the Universe ( XL)It's a long way to December. Check out more Top 10s. “Cry of the Wild Goose” Frankie Laine,Frankie Laine,Frankie LaineSociologists talk about the concept of a“gateway drug.”For his turn at the Desert Island Jukebox, Jim turns to the singer who was his gateway drug to music. When a six-year-old Jim popped his dad's old Frankie Laine LP on the record player, he knew music was a mysterious force he couldn't live without. An Italian-American from Chicago, Frankie Laine remade himself into an icon of the American West.
Songs like ' High Noon' and ' Rawhide' are undeniable cheese, but between Laine's rich baritone and those horns, you have to buy whatever he's selling. (And who could forget that scene from The Blues Brothers where the band gets on the good side of a raucous country crowd by playing 'Rawhide'?) Jim's song pick, however, is ' Cry of the Wild Goose' - the epitome of Frankie Laine insanity.
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track. track. trackFeatured Songs. Dr. John, Getaway, Locked Down, Nonesuch, 2012. Alabama Shakes, Hold On, Boys & Girls, ATO, 2012.
Japandroids, The House That Heaven Built, Celebration Rock, Polyvinyl, 2012. The dB's, Before We Were Born, Falling Off the Sky, Bar/None, 2012. Beach House, The Hours, Bloom, Sub Pop, 2012. Kelly Hogan, We Can't Have Nice Things, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain, ANTI-, 2012. Kelly Hogan, Golden, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain, ANTI-, 2012.
El-P, For My Upstairs Neighbor (Mums the Word), Cancer4Cure, Fat Possum, 2012. Killer Mike, Reagan, R.A.P. Music, Williams Street, 2012.
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Spiritualized, Headin' for the Top Now, Sweet Heart Sweet Light, Double Six, 2012. Neil Young, Oh Susannah, Americana, Reprise, 2012. Neil Young, Jesus Chariot (She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain, Americana, Reprise, 2012. Frankie Laine, Cry of the Wild Goose, Frankie Laine, Columbia, 1952. Kraftwerk, The Telephone Call, Electric Cafe, Warner Bros., 1987. Paul Oakenfold feat. Brittany Murphy, Faster Kill Pussycat, A Lively Mind, Maverick, 2006.
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Raymond Scott, Lullaby, Soothing Sounds for Baby Volume 1, 1 to 6 months, Basta Audio-Visuals, 1964.