It's almost like Neil Young's body of work is so vast, so wide, so accessible, and so often-updated that he can effortlessly reach back to whatever musical and thematic styles he needs to supplement his current emotional creativity. So finds Young, in 2006, recording and releasing a studio-written original album in the span of 4 weeks. He understands not only this amazingly shocking-yet-forseen place America finds itself in but also the way a popular artist might go about speaking to, and with, his audience about the realizition of finding oneself in such a place. To some, Neil Young might not have sprinted with the Beatles, the Stones or Dylan but he's surely runs the distances with no peer. Let's Impeach The President, and Living With War as a whole, might be Neil's last push towards the big blue line at Copley.....but perhaps he is just catching another wind along Heartbreak Hill. Only more distance will tell.
It's almost like Neil Young's body of work is so vast, so wide, so accessible, and so often-updated that he can effortlessly reach back to whatever musical and thematic styles he needs to supplement his current emotional creativity. So finds Young, in 2006, recording and releasing a studio-written original album in the span of 4 weeks. He understands not only this amazingly shocking-yet-forseen place America finds itself in but also the way a popular artist might go about speaking to, and with, his audience about the realizition of finding oneself in such a place. To some, Neil Young might not have sprinted with the Beatles, the Stones or Dylan but he's surely runs the distances with no peer. Let's Impeach The President, and Living With War as a whole, might be Neil's last push towards the big blue line at Copley.....but perhaps he is just catching another wind along Heartbreak Hill. Only more distance will tell.