Neil Young – Homegrown (2020) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young’s “lost album,” Homegrown, gets its debut 41 years late. Young shelved it because he “just couldn’t listen to” the heartache, which followed the collapse of his romance with actress Carrie Snodgress. Meant to fall between Harvest and Comes a Time, the 1974 time capsule fits neatly in that space. “Separate Ways” and “Try,” both featuring drums by Levon Helm, truly feel like an extension of Harvest: the former a noir-country lament and the latter an ambling plea for love lifted aloft by Emmylou Harris’ backing vocals. Throughout, train-whistle harmonica is a Greek chorus, popping up on the gorgeous and hopeless “Star of Bethlehem” (“All your dreams and your lovers won’t protect you”) and stripped-bare “Love Is a Rose”—which would be made famous in ’75 by Linda Ronstadt and here ends with urgent guitar chords like exclamation points of warning. There are moments of indulgence—you’re safe to skip any title that’s the name of a place—but also songs that stand with his best. The blistering “Vacancy” (“You poison me with that long, vacant stare”) and high-lonesome “White Line,” with Robbie Roberston, aren’t to be missed. – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:
1. Separate Ways (3:33)
2. Try (2:49)
3. Mexico (1:41)
4. Love Is A Rose (2:17)
5. Homegrown (2:48)
6. Florida (2:58)
7. Kansas (2:12)
8. We Don’t Smoke It No More (4:51)
9. White Line (3:14)
10. Vacancy (3:59)
11. Little Wing (2:12)
12. Star Of Bethlehem (2:48)

Personnel:
Neil Young, guitar (1, 2, 5, 7-12), harmonica (1, 4, 7-12), piano (2, 3), wine glass (6), piano strings (6), narration (6), vocals (1-5, 7-12)
Ben Keith, pedal steel guitar (1, 2), lap slide guitar (5, 8, 10), dobro (12), wine glass (6), piano strings (6), narration (6), vocals (2, 8, 10, 12)
Tim Drummond, bass (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12), vocals (8, 10)
Levon Helm, drums (1, 2)
Karl T. Himmel, drums (5, 8, 10, 12)
Robbie Robertson, guitar (9)
Emmylou Harris, backing vocals (2, 12)
Sandy Mazzeo, backing vocals (8)
Stan Szelest, piano (8), Wurlitzer piano (10)

Recorded June, September, December 1974, January 1975 at Quadrafonic Studios, Nashville, TN; Broken Arrow Ranch, Redwood City, CA; Village Recorders, Los Angeles, CA; Ramport Studios, London, England
Produced by Neil Young, Elliot Mazer, Ben Keith, Tim Mulligan

Digitally remastered

24-192

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