Old Ways

Neil Young - Old Ways

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Artist: Neil Young
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Wayward Wind
  2. Get Back to the Country
  3. Are There Any More Real Cowboys?
  4. Once an Angel
  5. Misfits
  6. California Sunset
  7. Old Ways
  8. My Boy
  9. Bound for Glory
  10. Where Is the Highway Tonight?

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Free Music Review: Maybe Neil's Best
Hit: 5 Stars

Absolutely one of Neil's best records -- even if we're not hearing it as it was originally conceived. And yes, I'm aware there was a lot of griping by the musicians on the sessions. But the proof is in the pudding. Why focus on "Misfits," which is most definitely an acquired taste (and its minimal instrumentation requires a pretty good sound system to really appreciate)? The first four songs on this record are among the best performances Young has made to date -- from his cover of "The Wayward Wind," which he transforms wholly into a Neil Young song, to "Are There Anymore Real Cowboys," which despite its somewhat didactic lyrics is among the most stirring music Young has written. "Get Back to the Country" -- one of the best anti-rock anthems since Harry Nilsson's "I'll Take a Tango."

And that's not even the best this record has to offer. For that, look to the absolutely gorgeous "Once an Angel" and to the
achingly sweet "My Boy" (in which Young effortly produces the touching tribute to the artist's son that John Lennon muffed on "Beatiful Boy"). And the closer, "Where is the Highway Tonight" -- can tear your heart out.

This is a concept record, for sure -- it starts out like a parody of country, and gradually, song by song, Young reveals the gut-wrenching, tear-welling power of the genre. It's quite a feat, and it should be at the top of everyone's Neil list.

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Old Ways Poster

Unavailable on CD in the U.S., this is his 1985 album forGeffen. 10 tracks, including 'The Wayward Wind', 'Are ThereAny More Real Cowboys?', 'Bound For Glory', the title cutand 'Where Is The Highway Tonight?'.
Neil Young's most dependable route has always been to head for the back roads. Country-flavored releases Harvest (1972), Comes a Time ('78), Harvest Moon ('92), and Silver & Gold ('00) are among the most commercially popular titles in a fitful career, which makes Old Ways something of a anomaly. Released in 1985 as the mid-title in a misbegotten five-LP stint with Geffen, it failed to exhibit the kind of roughhewn muscle of its more robust country cousins. With Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson making vocal contributions and a mix of longtime Young sidemen and Nashville cats laying down a bed of fiddles, steel guitar, and banjo, it would seem to be cruising right up Music City's main drag of the mid-'80s. But Young being Young, he goes around the bend with "Misfits," which summons an indelible image of space-station astronauts watching reruns of Muhammad Ali fights. It happens to be the most memorable number on Old Ways, which perhaps explains why those new fans never showed up and the old ones found other things to do for awhile. --Steven Stolder

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