4/5
Wild Pony
What happens when the cutting room floor could have given you so much more? Well, now there's no need to ask Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse. Wild horses couldn't drag the rolling stone, great Canadian songbook of this wonderful writer's work and classic catalogue away. The old man and the sea of re-releases over the steady stream of the last few years could fill the Xstream all by themselves, Spotify be damned. Even the former Pono platform Neil promoted with punctuation in his amazing autobiography 'Waging Heavy Peace'. In that magnificent memoir, Neil Young also talked about the lost Crazy Horse album 'Early Daze' from Crazy Horse's salad days that finally see its release as the 47th album from Young and Horse, chasing down the great Willie Nelson on their steed.
After more teases and postponements than movies during corona, we are finally in a daze. And 'Early', recorded in 1969, is better late than never in this renaissance of releases from Young. This Sunset Sound Reprise record follows their live 'F#####' Up' from earlier this year. Featuring classics like 'Winterlong', 'Cinnamon Girl' and 'Down By The River', amongst decades of numerous archival releases, this studio set almost feels like a greatest hits that you can 'Dance Dance Dance' to like amazing author Haruki Murakami in this victory lap release as those 'Early Daze' finally make it home. And this is still CNN, Larry, as there's even some Crosby, Stills & Nash for your reunion in the form of a 'Helpless' hallmark. In the same week that the 'Songwriter' talents of Johnny Cash are posthumously released, this band shows and proves that they are still alive across the airwaves with this great crate dig.
For the record, this is a bold and beautiful one to behold. From bootleg to one of the best in a compelling and creative collection. Recorded around what everyone knows as the album, 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere', these classics have their own right to lean up against the tree with man's best friend. We're taken out on the original 'Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown', and alternative takes of the titular like 'Everybody's Alone' and 'Birds' take wing. But 'Look At All The Things' we have here in this top ten. If you've been 'Wonderin'' about one of the best acts in the business, well, wonder no more as Young sings, "I've been walking all night long/My footsteps made me crazy/Baby, you've been gone so long/I'm wonderin' if you'll come home/I'm hopin' that you'll be my baby/I'm wonderin' if I'll be alone/Knowin' that I need you to save me." The legend has been created and curated for decades, but it was evoked so early. When this Crazy Horse was just a pony. There's nothing like the good ole daze. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Cinnamon Girl', 'Down By The River'.
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