And throughout his career lurches one way or the other have often been a reaction to his previous lurch. And have been playing it on repeat for the last few weeks.Īt the risk of gross simplification, Young’s outputs has tended to operate at the loud, ragged rocking end of the spectrum (often with his band Crazy Horse), or at the more songwriter-y acoustic folk/country end. And then I thought about this, the immediate predecessor to Harvest, and listening to it afresh (I hadn’t played it for a good few years) I fell back in love with it. But on listening to it I wasn’t convinced that it would really work.

Originally I was looking at Harvest, the archetypal Neil Young acoustic album, the “if you only own one Neil Young album this should be it” (my personal favourite would be On The Beach” fyi). That’s proved harder than I thought – a whole album of good songs that can be reduced to the ukulele and that a bunch of people (of a certain age!) will know well enough to stop it being a solo rendition by yours truly.Īnd that search led me to this. I’ve been looking around recently for albums that I think would work as part of our recent series of ukulele album nights.

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