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Unplugged (CD)

By: Neil Young (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Unplugged (CD) Album By Neil Young (Artist)
1   Old Laughing Lady, The
2   Mr. Soul
3   World On A String
4   Pocahontas
5   Stringman
6   Like A Hurricane
7   Needle And The Damage Done, The
8   Helpless
9   Harvest Moon
10   Transformer Man
11   Unknown Legend
12   Look Out For My Love
13   Long May You Run
14   From Hank To Hendrix
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (8/19/93, p.76) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Young flashes both sides of his musical personality: the earnest folkie and the edgy heretic....the music has the relaxed aura of a friendly folkside folk sing..."
Entertainment Weekly (6/18/93, p.57) - "...while many of these songs sound like earlier versions, there are thrilling exceptions: 'Helpless' takes on a gospel longing, and 'Mr. Soul' becomes a despondent dirge..." - Rating: B
Q (1/94, p.83) - Included in Q's list of 'The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...a spellbinding hour's music...."
Q (7/93, p.98) - 5 Stars - Indispensible - "...Just when Unplugged ought to be running out of steam, Neil Young has taken the measure of its possibilities, picked exactly the right balance of material and put one over on everybody who's been there before, including Clapton and Springsteen..."
Q (8/93, p.131) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[a] willingness to re-mold songs by means of unusual instrumentation...marks out this show as probably the best in MTV's UNPLUGGED series..."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/01, p.151) - "...Young confidently recasts 'Transformer Man', 'Like a Hurricane' and other classics. The nearest thing to a career-spanning retrospective, and probably the best place for a novice to start."
NME (Magazine) (12/25/93, p.67) - Ranked #26 in New Musical Express' list of 'The Top 50 LPs Of 1993' - "...old faves and obscurities from as far back as '69, made quietly reflective with guitar, harmonium and Neil's prarie dog howl. A negative image of the stormy ARC WELD...."

Title Note

Personnel: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, pump organ); Nils Lofgren (vocals, guitar); Nicolette Larson, Astrid Young (vocals); Ben Keith (dobro); Spooner Oldham (piano, pump organ); Tim Drummond (bass, guitar); Oscar Butterworth (drums); Larry Cragg (broom).

Engineers: David Briggs, John Hanlon, John Nowland, John Hausmann.

Recorded at Universal Studios, Los Angeles, California on February 7, 1993.

For all its shortcomings, MTV's UNPLUGGED series, presenting artists in an ostensibly stripped-down, acoustic setting, has provided the world with a few recorded gems, including this album. Young's turn on the show amounts to a live best-of, focusing (out of necessity) on the ballad end of his repertoire. Supported by longtime cohorts like Nils Lofgren, Tim Drummond, and Ben Keith, Young reaches back to his earliest solo recordings ("The Old Laughing Lady") as well as offering up some new tunes ("From Hank to Hendrix," "Unknown Legend").

Amid the electrical storm of Crazy Horse, it's often easy to forget how brightly Young shines as an acoustic balladeer, his high, lonesome whine taking on a plaintive quality. From the surrealism of "Pocahontas" to the existential angst of "World on a String," Young works his idiosyncratic magic. As a bonus, UNPLUGGED offers some interesting rearrangements of old tunes, particularly "Like a Hurricane," which is presented as a pump organ-driven slow burner.

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