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Neil Young + Stray Gators - 2019 - Tuscaloosa (HDtracks) [[email protected]]

Artist: Neil Young + Stray Gators
Title: Tuscaloosa (HDtracks)
Format: WEB, 11 files FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24bit 96kHz, HDtracks
Producer: Neil Young, Elliot Mazer
Release Date: June 7, 2019
Recorded: February 5, 1973 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
Label: Reprise Records
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Classic Rock, Roots Rock, Soft Rock, Blues Rock, Country Rock
Duration: 52:34


Neil Young:



Wikipedia:
Neil Percival Young, OC OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician, producer, director and screenwriter. He began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield together with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969. He released his first album in 1968 and has since forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, spanning over 45 years and 35 studio albums, with a continuous and uncompromizing exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll's greatest songwriters and performers". He was inducted into the Hall of Fame twice, first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.
Young's music is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and characteristic alto or high tenor singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments, including piano and harmonica, his idiosyncratic electric and acoustic guitar playing are the defining characteristics of a varyingly ragged and melodic sound.
While Young has experimented with differing music styles throughout a varied career, including electronic music, most of his best known work is either acoustic folk-rock and country rock or electric, amplified hard rock (most often in collaboration with the band Crazy Horse). Musical styles such as alternative rock and grunge also adopted elements from Young. His influence has caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".
Young has directed (or co-directed) a number of films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008). He has also contributed to the soundtracks of films including Philadelphia (1993) and Dead Man (1995).
Young is an environmentalist and outspoken advocate for the welfare of small farmers, having co-founded in 1985 the benefit concert Farm Aid. He is currently working on a documentary about electric car technology, tentatively titled LincVolt. The project involves his 1959 Lincoln Continental converted to hybrid technology as an environmentalist statement. In 1986, Young helped found The Bridge School, an educational organization for children with severe verbal and physical disabilities, and its annual supporting Bridge School Benefit concerts, together with his ex-wife Pegi Young (née Morton). Young has three children: sons Zeke (born during his relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress) and Ben, who were diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and daughter Amber Jean who, like Young, has epilepsy. Young lives on his ranch near La Honda, California. Although he has lived in northern California since the 1970s and sings as frequently about US themes and subjects as he does about his native country, he has retained his Canadian citizenship. On July 14, 2006, Young was awarded the Order of Manitoba, and on December 30, 2009, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

The Stray Gators:

Wikipedia:
The Stray Gators was the name given by Neil Young to his supporting musicians from 1971–1973 and who backed him on the albums Harvest (1972) and Time Fades Away (1973).[1] It consisted of Jack Nitzsche (piano), Ben Keith (steel guitar), Tim Drummond (bass) and Kenny Buttrey (drums) (the latter replaced during the 1973 Time Fades Away tour by Johnny Barbata).


Tuscaloosa:



AllMusic Review by Mark Deming:
Neil Young's muse has led him to release some curious albums over the course of his five-decade career, but he has a more contentious relationship with 1973's Time Fades Away than any other title in his catalog. Time Fades Away was a live LP assembled from several shows on his early 1973 tour following the breakout success of Harvest, which he undertook shortly after the death of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten. Young was still wrestling with his grief over Whitten's passing, and his relationship with his band of the time, the Stray Gators, was not especially good (in part due to the high salary drummer Kenny Buttrey demanded, which Young then had to pay the other musicians as well). Young's public statements about the tour and Time Fades Away have been consistently bitter, which is reflected in the dark, chaotic sound of the album. For decades, it was one of Young's few releases to fall out of print and remain that way, and it's still not available as a stand-alone CD. (It does appear in the Official Release Series, Discs 5-8 box set.)
However, the 2019 release of the archival live album Tuscaloosa puts this tour in a new light. It preserves a February 1973 date with the Stray Gators at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and rather than a rumbling hot-rod ride down a bumpy road of bad karma, Tuscaloosa presents Neil and his band in a warmer mood, sometimes downbeat but far less confrontational, and the vibe here is generally positive. Some of this can be chalked up to the set list; Time Fades Away featured only previously unrecorded tunes the audience didn't know, while this show included five tunes from Harvest and one each from After the Gold Rush and Neil Young. The crowd seems happy to hear familiar sounds (even "Alabama," which one might imagine would rub some Crimson Tide fans the wrong way), and while the set takes a sharp left turn into rougher territory at the halfway point with "Time Fades Away," the performance is significantly more energetic than the previously released version, enlivened by the pedal steel whoops of Ben Keith, making it a bit more user friendly.
Tuscaloosa also includes early performances of two songs that would later surface on 1975's Tonight's the Night, and on this evening, Neil and his accompanists gave "Lookout Joe" a ragged but controlled feel that matched grief with power and made the most of both. It would be wrong to look at Tuscaloosa as the flip side of Time Fades Away, as in its own way, it's also an album that confronts grief and emotional struggle. The difference is, on Time Fades Away, those emotions were presented loud and clear. Tuscaloosa is warmer, more engaging, and captures Young and the Stray Gators on a great night (and boasts a cleaner recording and mix), but even in the cheeriest bits, there's a dark shadow in this music that's subtle but eloquent. Time Fades Away was the drunken wake and Tuscaloosa is the family's memorial service -- and they're both important parts of the story of Neil Young in 1973.


Tracklist:

01. Here We Are in the Years - 3:57
02. After the Gold Rush - 4:42
03. Out on the Weekend - 5:29
04. Harvest - 4:13
05. Old Man - 4:14
06. Heart of Gold - 3:48
07. Time Fades Away - 6:10
08. Lookout Joe - 5:00
09. New Mama - 3:00
10. Alabama - 3:51
11. Don’t Be Denied - 8:09


Personnel:

Neil Young - Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, Producer
Kenny Buttrey - Drums
Tim Drummond - Bass
Ben Keith - Steel Guitar
Jack Nitzsche - Electric Piano, Vocals
Elliot Mazer - Producer
John Hanlon - Mixing







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