Americana (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album)
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse studio album | ||||
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Label (s) | Recapitulation | |||
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11 |
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56:50 |
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Neil Young, John Hanlon and Mark Humphreys |
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Americana is the 45th album of Neil Young . His first collaboration with Crazy Horse since recording Greendale and touring together in 2003/2004 was released on June 5, 2012. The album contains reinterpretations of classic American folk songs .
reception
Country Music News said about the album that Neil Young was sending the old classics into a time machine, even if the electric guitar was technically somewhat limited. By rearranging the slightly outdated tracks from the Great American Songbook , they developed almost magical sounds.
Track list
- Oh! Susanna ( Stephen Collins Foster ) - 5:03
- Oh My Darling, Clementine ( Traditional ) - 5:42
- Tom Dula (Traditional) - 8:13
- Gallows Pole (Traditional) - 4:15
- Get a Job ( Raymond Edwards / William Horton ) - 3:01
- Travel On (Traditional) - 6:47
- High Flyin 'Bird ( Billy Edd Wheeler ) - 5:30
- Jesus' Chariot (She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain) (Traditional) - 5:38
- This Land Is Your Land ( Woody Guthrie ) - 5:26
- Wayfarin 'Stranger (Traditional) - 3:07
- God Save the Queen ( Thomas Arne ) - 4:08
Web links
- Americana at Allmusic (English)
- Works by and about Neil Young in the catalog of the German National Library
- Americana on the official Neil Young website