Americana (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album)

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Americana
Neil Young & Crazy Horse studio album

Publication
(s)

5th June 2012

Label (s) Recapitulation

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Rock , hard rock

Title (number)

11

running time

56:50

occupation

production

Neil Young, John Hanlon and Mark Humphreys

chronology
A Treasure
(2011)
Americana Psychedelic Pill
(2012)

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 By rearranging the slightly outdated tracks from the Great American Songbook , they developed almost magical sounds.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

  1. Oh! Susanna ( Stephen Collins Foster ) - 5:03
  2. Oh My Darling, Clementine ( Traditional ) - 5:42
  3. Tom Dula (Traditional) - 8:13
  4. Gallows Pole (Traditional) - 4:15
  5. Get a Job ( Raymond Edwards / William Horton ) - 3:01
  6. Travel On (Traditional) - 6:47
  7. High Flyin 'Bird ( Billy Edd Wheeler ) - 5:30
  8. Jesus' Chariot (She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain) (Traditional) - 5:38
  9. This Land Is Your Land ( Woody Guthrie ) - 5:26
  10. Wayfarin 'Stranger (Traditional) - 3:07
  11. God Save the Queen ( Thomas Arne ) - 4:08

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.countrymusicnews.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6251:young-neil-a-crazy-horse-americana&catid=29:cd-besbitrungen&Itemid=125