Neil Young: After the Goldrush Remastered

Aug 9 2009 by Daniel Smith, Sunday Mercury

NEIL YOUNG

After The Goldrush Remastered (Rhino)

wTHERE are those who will tell you that Harvest is the definitive Neil Young album but After The Goldrush – recorded two years earlier – is better. It’s here we heard for the first time the angry Southern Man (which sparked Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama riposte), the fragile I Believe In You, and Tell Me Why, which set out his country-rock credentials. Towering over them all, however, is the drop dead gorgeous Only Love Can Break Your Heart, with one Stephen Stills on backing vocals. This is part of a timely remastered release of all Neil Young’s early albums. PC