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Aug 5, 2024It's an absolute must for fans, but also a great starting point for anyone who's a little more than just a casual listener, but not quite ready to venture too deep into the vaults.
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Jul 19, 2024While all of these songs are complete and the playing is on point, there’s also a loose quality to them that feels like you’re sitting in on a rehearsal. .... More than a half century later, you’re there with them at Wally Heider Studio in Hollywood, hearing Young and Crazy Horse spend nine minutes breaking in one of rock’s most classic songs, and lots more besides.
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Jul 2, 2024Young has released many archival sets, but for real fans this hits home as hard as any.
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Jun 27, 2024There’s a depth to the sonics that belies the skeletal two guitars/bass/drums arrangement even as the mix highlights the aforementioned Nitzsche’s electric piano on “Winterlong”). The latter composition has only appeared before as an inclusion in the 1977 anthology Decade. But that piece of forlorn glory was nonetheless different from this one, as is also the case with a jovial rendering of “Wonderin’,” a Young original that would eventually appear on 1983’s ever-so-quirky Everybody’s Rockin’.
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MojoJun 27, 2024Short but definitely sweet. [Aug 2024, p.94]
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UncutJun 27, 2024As is usually the case with archival material of this kind, nothing here is any improvement on the finished product. These tracks are, however, humbling reminders that what we end up hearing as astonishing lightning-in-a-bottle transcendence is very often the result of repetitive, labour-intensive hackwork. [Aug 2024, p.46]
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Jun 27, 2024It adds only a bit to our understanding of who the musicians were and are, but it does highlight their early connectedness, a characteristic that allowed their art to flourish not only immediately but over the decades, too.