Released 10/15/2012
Whoops...here we go again! Neil Young with Crazy Horse. "Americana" was a successful (in my opinion) warmup to this double album. It's all here friends: the chunky, chewy jams unfettered by time constraints ("Driftin' Back" 27:58, "Ramada Inn" 16:38, "Walk LIke A Giant"16:35) and the somewhat tighter loping tunes typical of Young and the Horse ("Born In Ontario", "Twisted Road"). There's even two versions of the title tune, one as mixed in the late sixties with all the acid whooshing effects and the other more straight ahead.
Whether you like this or not is based on your tolerance for the longer jams (which are suprisingly more melodic and trance-like than in the past). I love this stuff. And it all fits in very nicely with Neil's autobiography "Waging Heavy Peace" of which there are varied opinions (I both loved and was frustrated with it).
Lengthy or not, the songs themselves seem to be in step with the Young canon. Take a listen to the early Young-Horse albums...there's quite a connection.
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