Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Live Rust

THE REVIEW

You need to be well-equipped for the long acoustic-electric folk journey that Neil Young offers us with this album; recorded during the historic 1978 Rust Never Sleep Tour, this live performance represents the purest manifestation of the folk-rock & roll vein of this magnificent Canadian artist. A guitar, a harmonica, and a piano are enough to recreate the intimate atmosphere that has always characterized each of his works, not exceptional in theory but magical in results.

Accompanied by Crazy Horse, Young knows how to convey power in his songs like the more electric "When You Dance I Can Really Love", "The Loner", or "Cinnamon Girl" and at the same time delights us with lethal blows of exuberant melody like "Sugar Mountain" and "I am a Child", for example. We find every aspect of the characteristic "younghiana", the endless howls and the almost spoken verses, the shaky almost off-key voice, all nuances that make this singer one of the best in his genre, in my opinion, of course.

In his works (contained in this live performance), it almost seems that Young put the songs together without thinking, because he had them at hand; they may appear to be little songs, but in reality, they will transport you far away, into your dreams, into unexplored territories made of prairies and untamed nature. For those who do not think so, they may ignore every perspective, every merit, and follow the shaky flow of these songs, loving a different twist depending on the moment.

"Oh, to live on sugar mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on sugar mountain
Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon"

Unforgettable melodies.