After the Gold Rush
Occupation
- Neil Young: guitar, piano, harmonica, vibraphone, vocals
- Danny Whitten: guitar, vocals
- Nils Lofgren: Piano, Vocal
- Jack Nitzsche: piano
- Billy Talbot: bass
- Greg Reeves: Bass
- Ralph Molina: drums, vocals
- Bill Peterson: flugelhorn
- Stephen Stills: Vocals
After the Gold Rush is the third album by Neil Young. It appeared in 1970 as one of four solo albums from the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ( CSNY ), which only a short time after the successful album Déjà Vu found special attention because of their publication. The album reached # 8 on the Billboard album charts, the two single releases Only Love Can Break Your Heart and When You Dance I Can Really Love occupied positions 33 and 93 on the Billboard Hot 100
Formation
Neil Young's third solo album was recorded in one of the most significant stages of his career: Within a period of less than one year he played two solo albums and a CSNYs Déjà Vu. The follow-up album Harvest, reach # 1 on the charts Billboart and finally establish him as a star should, however, he was able to resume only in 1972 due to a back injury. Compared with the experimental mix of styles that characterized his work with Buffalo Springfield in previous years, Young sat on After the Gold Rush more on a mix of hard rock and country and folk -influenced acoustic elements, comparable with CSNY and the direct predecessor album Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.
The authorized biography of Young, according to Shakey Young wanted to put together his band of musicians of his companions Crazy Horse and CSN. In addition Crazy Horse Stephen Stills and CNSY bassist Greg Reeves are represented on the album. The first sessions were conducted with Crazy Horse in the Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles during a winter tour, when it came to a gig at the Fillmore East with Steve Miller and Miles Davis. After the constitution of the rhythm guitarist Danny Whitten during the sessions deteriorated significantly, could only track I Believe in You be recorded. Apart When You Dance I Can Really Love this the only appearance of Crazy Horse remained. Whitten played in addition to Southern Man.
The bulk of the album was recorded in the spring of 1970 in a makeshift basement studio in Young's house in Topanga. The backing band consisted of bassist Greg Reeves, drummer Ralph Molina of Crazy Horse and Nils Lofgren of the band Grin in Washington on piano. The 18 -year-old talent Lofgren, who had never played a regular piano or keyboard before the sessions to leave this part, is further evidence of Young's wayward decisions. Nils Lofgren later joined together with Jack Nitzsche, another protegee Youngs, for a short time an expanded lineup of Crazy Horse in 1984 he rose band at E Street.
Effect
The criticism was not immediately convinced by the album. The first review of Rolling Stone began with the lines:
As usual with Young publications critics revised their opinions in hindsight upwards. Meanwhile, After the Gold Rush is one of the milestones in Young's career. Ink Blot describes a more recent critical opinion of the album:
In 1998, readers of Q Magazine's After the Gold Rush in the choice of the best album of all time ranked 89th in a 2005 survey conducted by the British Channel 4, it reached # 92 Rolling Stone named it the 71st - best album of all time.
The rapper and singer Everlast coverte the piece Only Love Can Break Your Heart in 1999 for the soundtrack to the film Big Daddy. In 1984, Stephen Stills had gecovert the same piece for his album Right By You.
Title list
All songs by Neil Young, except Oh, Lonesome Me by Don Gibson