Neil Young’s prairie wind review

It is really hard to find a musician with such a large and admired discography as Neil Young. Since the late 60s, the Canadian musician has released more than 40 albums, many of them as memorable as Harvest, Rust never sleeps or Freedom . But, at age 60, Young seems to be still at his best, as he shows in his last album, Prairie wind, in which Young returns to his personal folk-rock style he showed in the early 70s in two top quality albums that catapulted him to the stardom: After the gold rush (1970) and Harvest (1971). Prairie Wind is Young’s most “essential” album since the release of the Harvest Moon in 1992.

The album opens with The painter , a nice, classic, melodic Young song about a female painter, and continues with No wonder, where Young’s values that we commented are evident in lyrics as “Somewhere a senator sits in a leather chair / Behind a big wooden desk / The caribou we killed mean nothing to him / He took his money just like all the rest” The third song, Falling off the face of the Earth , continues this accoustic series.

In Far from home , Young’s piano begin to shines, and it is more evident in It’s a dream, arguably the album’s most beautiful song. With its reflective lyrics and beautiful piano sound the song will make Young’s fans to remember songs as Heart of gold or the more recent Western hero . This is the song that wou’ll probably find yourself singing after the album ends. It’s a dream, only a dream...

In the song entitled Prairie wind the piano dissapears, and the accoustic guitar takes the main role. Here for you is a beautiful song that will make you remember From Hank to Hendrix , one of Young’s most loved songs. The old guitar is one of the most personal songs in the entire album, with Young’s nasal voice accompanied by a very listenable chorus.

In He was the King Young sings about the King, you know, Elvis Presley, as he did in one of hist most famous songs, Hey,hey; my, my (.the King is gone but is not forgotten.) although the style is very different, and the album closes with When God mades me , an intimal, reflective song about life, God, and Faith