By the turn of the millennium, Neil Young's songwriting had become a shared reference point for several generations of musicians. Musical artists from the folk revival, alt-country movement, and indie rock scene were all revisiting different eras of his catalog - from the fragile acoustic songs of the late sixties to the electric epics recorded with Crazy Horse. During this period, Young himself remained remarkably active, releasing albums such as "Silver and Gold" and "Greendale" while continuing to tour extensively. The covers gathered here reflect that generational dialogue: younger singer-songwriters, Americana performers, and alternative rock musicians rediscovering both famous classics and some of the most obscure corners of Young's songwriting.
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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together.
This album is an hour and one minute long.
01 Piece of Crap (Slobberbone)
02 Pushed It Over the End (South Ontario)
03 Long Walk Home (MrChuck)
04 I've Been Waiting for You (David Bowie)
05 Running Dry [Requiem for the Rockets] (Steve Von Till)
06 Albuquerque (Walkabouts)
07 Pocahontas (Gillian Welch)
08 The Old Laughing Lady (Thea Gilmore)
09 Old Man (Wilson Phillips)
10 I Believe in You (Patricia O'Callaghan)
11 Helpless (k.d. lang)
12 Barstool Blues (Maria McKee)
13 Broken Arrow (Kate Rogers)
14 Last Trip to Tulsa (Leo Koster)
15 Roll Another Number [For the Road] (Mike McClure)
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I got a complaint that the cover image was ruined by AI. I don't think so. Here's the unaltered black and white original. As I've said elsewhere, I typically only use Krea AI to make minor changes, mostly with color and contrast. If you don't like the colorization and other changes, feel free to use this version.
Nice to see Thea Gilmore show up on your site for the first time. I lover her rendition of "The Old Laughing Lady". Unknown in the U.S., she has released dozens of albums, and is well worth your time to check out. She also has a Patreon page with which she sends her Patrons a newly written and recorded song every month.
ReplyDeletePlease stop with the AI slop pictures. They look awful. It's not you, it's the AI. Makes me queasy to look at.
ReplyDeleteFascinating, because Paul has not yet used even one "AI slop" picture for this series. (If you don't like the accompanying pics, they are not mandatory, and you can simply discard them.)
DeleteWhen I get back home, I am going to post links to the originals of these pics people are complaining about. Hopefully they will see that only surface things have changed, like color and contrast. I try to tread lightly with AI adjustments. I never ever make pictures from scratch with AI.
DeleteThe problem is, for this series, I have to use photos where NY has his head looking straight at the camera, not angled to the side at all, and no hat or glasses. I had a very hard time finding those from when he was young. So some original photos I picked aren’t ideal. If anyone can find better ones from the 1960s and 70s, let me know and I’ll make replacements.
I don’t have time to search for them all right now, but you can find the original of the photo I used for this Volume 4 album near the bottom of this website:
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Thanks for sharing another volume. Once again, as was the case with the other 3 volumes, I cannot open the word file? It states again, that it can't be open due to errors? How can I fix this? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI believe Paul is sharing ".docx" files that need Word Office to open. You could convert them to PDF and open using Adobe or a similar pdf reader.
DeleteI have word office. But for some reason the Neil postings are not opening up for me. I'm getting a message that there are errors??
DeleteI have the pdf versions for all liner notes. If you provide me with an e-mail address I may forward them to you. Alternatively, when Paul returns from vacations I can share them with him and he may update the zip files
DeleteObrigado!
ReplyDeleteGreat selections! But one nitpick for Fabio: "By [1999] Young's songwriting had become a shared reference point for several generations of musicians." Only TWO generations, at this volume's point. Aside from a couple of the Boomer 'outlaw country' artists, Neil never really connected with or was covered by older generations (compared to, say, the Beatles Dylan, or Motown composers.) Even the oldest 'Millennial' was just turning 17-22 during this volume's period, not yet touring or cutting notable covers. It signifies that all the artists you included here (but Bowie) are 'Gen X'. Just give him some more years....😂
ReplyDeleteI'll nitpick you right back ;-) and argue that these broad "generational" labels are huge generalizations, mostly used for statistical or marketing purposes, and they don't really capture what a generation actually is.
DeleteFor instance, Generation X is usually defined as people born between 1965 and 1980. But do we really believe that someone born in 1965 belongs to the same cultural generation as someone born in 1980?
A more meaningful way to think about generations might be much narrower cohorts — something like a school class ("Class of 1969", which happens to be mine). At most, you might group four or five adjacent years together.
Seen that way, between 1945 and 1999 we could easily be talking about from one to several dozens of distinct micro-generations of musicians and listeners — many of which end up being lumped together under the very abstract labels of "Baby Boomers", "Gen X", and "Millennials".
Goodness me, the cover photos are getting worse... If that's the best AI has to offer, I suggest you stick to the originals.
ReplyDeleteThat IS the original. AI only helped a bit with color and contrast. You can find a link to the unaltered original higher up in the comments here if you want to compare yourself.
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