Neil Young - Road Rock #1 (DVD Audio) [Enhanced]

Track Listings

1. Cowgirl in the Sand

2. Walk On

3. Fool for Your Love

4. Peace of Mind

5. Words (Between the Lines of Age)

6. Motorcycle Mama

7. Tonight's the Night

8. All Along the Watchtower

Editorial Reviews
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This souvenir from Neil Young's Y2K Music in Head tour shines brightest when it reaches what in a vinyl world would have been side two's opening cut: "Words" starts out as a reminder of the depth and genius of Young's Harvest album, and then grows, over the course of its 11 minutes, into a fractured waltz that shows just how nicely a bunch of good old boys and girls can breathe new life into classic rock. Instrumental demons Donald "Duck" Dunn, Spooner Oldham, Jim Keltner, and Ben Keith (along with the Young family backup singers, sister Astrid and wife Pegi) perform similar miracles on "Tonight's the Night," "Cowgirl in the Sand" (18 big minutes!), and a crowd-pleasing "All Along the Watchtower" featuring tour-mate Chrissie Hynde. The shorter cuts are less remarkable, from the previously unreleased "Fool for Your Love" to a draggy "Motorcycle Mama" that barely warrants its four minutes. But when Young and company crank it up on the open highway, rock doesn't get much better than this. -Bill Forman --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

Cowgirl In The Sand
Walk On
Fool For Your Love
Peace Of Mind
Words
Motorcycle Mama
Tonight's The Night
All Along The Watchtower (duet with Chrissie Hynde)

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This souvenir from Neil Young's Y2K Music in Head tour shines brightest when it reaches what in a vinyl world would have been side two's opening cut: "Words" starts out as a reminder of the depth and genius of Young's Harvest album, and then grows, over the course of its 11 minutes, into a fractured waltz that shows just how nicely a bunch of good old boys and girls can breathe new life into classic rock. Instrumental demons Donald "Duck" Dunn, Spooner Oldham, Jim Keltner, and Ben Keith (along with the Young family backup singers, sister Astrid and wife Pegi) perform similar miracles on "Tonight's the Night," "Cowgirl in the Sand" (18 big minutes!), and a crowd-pleasing "All Along the Watchtower" featuring tour-mate Chrissie Hynde. The shorter cuts are less remarkable, from the previously unreleased "Fool for Your Love" to a draggy "Motorcycle Mama" that barely warrants its four minutes. But when Young and company crank it up on the open highway, rock doesn't get much better than this. -Bill Forman

Customer Reviews:

should have bought the video.......2007-02-25

Just got an Oppo 970 and HDMI receiver and figured a 5.1 Neil Young concert would be fun. So far as I can tell, the DVD Audio center channel is never used, and the mix sounds like it could use it. Other 5.1 DVD Audio discs seem fine (Jackson Browne "Running on Empty", so just chalk it up to whacky old Neil doin' his thing.

It's not Crazy Horse...but ya know what...that's alright!.......2005-07-07

Just because Neil isn't being backed by his legendary band, Crazy Horse, doesn't make this a bad album. Yes, it's not like it's predecessor when it comes to live albums (Rust Never Sleeps, Live Rust, Weld) but it goes in the same category as "Unplugged".

Neil has some prominent names performing with him for this tour which include Spooner Oldham on piano, Donald "Duck" Dunn on the bass, and Neil's longtime friend and musician, Ben Kieth on guitar. He is also accomponied by his wife, Pegi, and his half sister Astrid.

This isn't supposed to be a hard-rocking set. It's a toned-down yet equally impressive live album. It includes live rarities (except for Tonight's the Night) with excellent versions of "Cowgirl in the Sand" (first live appearance on an album since the acoustic version found on CSN&Y's Four Way Street), "Words" (my personal favorite) and a peaceful version of "Peace of Mind". All in all, it's a decent album filled with rarely played songs and played with "Friends and Relatives"

I would only recommend this for the "die-hard" fans - because it's not really a good introductory point, instead I'd go with Live Rust, or Weld - then weave your way into something softer, like this.

Volume one is the humble side on this one.......2004-11-05

When I looked at the spine of this CD in my CD tower, I thought this copyright 2000 Reprise Records release must be volume six, V I being close to VI. "Rust Never Sleeps" was one of my favorite video concerts for years, with "Hey Hey, My My" 's great line "Out of the Blue and Into the Black" also showing up on "WELD" by Neil Young and Crazy Horse in another concert CD, back in 1991, with lots of other great songs. This CD sounds like a concert that fills in some gaps, for people who would like to know more than just the big hits. I don't remember when I acquired this, but it is all starting to sound familiar now.

"Tonight's the Night" is the song before the last song on "WELD" and this CD, but I don't see any other simularities, and if I'm going to hear a song more often than the others, at least it is one I really like, even if it sounds like some crazy guy in the crowd is shouting at the end of it. Live recordings have found a number of techniques for suggesting that the audience is reacting to the music. Crazy people shouting sounds like something that the year 2000 had plenty of, and Neil's fan is undoubted not the worst of the lot. Enjoy it, if you can.

Gimme A Break..........2004-04-03

Seems as if the top 500 "reviewers' here have little to no concept of what's going on, which probably means their top 500 "reviewer" status feeds their ego for personal reasons adding little to zero value to an actual opinion. `Road Rock Vol.1" contains the first time Young has released "Cowgirl in the Sand" live with Reprise. The song itself is one of the many staples on his first 1969 Crazy Horse release, `Everybody Knows this is Nowhere,' and throughout the years he has played it with many different people, in many different settings, and many times the song's feel varies. The 18 plus minute version contained here is just one take of wonderful arrangements and sounds. It starts the album and is worth the price of admission alone. `Words,' another past gem, gets a tasteful treatment from Young, Keith Dunn, Oldham, Keltner, Pegi and Astrid. Is this Young's most solid live Reprise release? No. But it is definitely worth having around in the collection as Young's sound over the years changes from live release to album to who he plays with. It captures the magic of a rock n roll moment many years after it was supposed to rust, a bright evolution, a statement few are unable to quite hear.

10 Star CD.......2003-11-01

Wow. The opening track will blow the roof off your skull! Hello Cowgirls in the Sand? Cowgirls, can you hear me? What a consummate Rock entertainer! I became an ardent fan of his in the late sixties, having been priviledged to witness many of his shows live in San Francisco. He is one aging artist whom I can honestly say hasn't ever taken a misstep, musically. The guy will no doubt be rockin the ears off of fellow ghosts in the grave.

This live CD his best concert version yet. He was so "on" that evening, and his band was so tight, I can honestly say there are very few live albums to equal this. Little Feet comes close, but for sheer rock power, this man has no equal. This CD conjures up visions of Neil circa 1972, Winterland, fuzz-box, Bo-Diddely, looking, square guitar blaring at warp speed, dancers in the audience, including yours truly, gyrating frenziedly on the floorbaords. Light show, Stobes, Glitter Ball...oh those were the days!!
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Any Road
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Bachman rocks!

One of Canada's finest...

Any Road
Randy Bachman
Manufacturer: Legend
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Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Bachman rocks!.......2006-01-10

Randy Bachman delivers a sound similar to BTO with a few more diverse songs, and the lyrics are a bit more personal, more introspective. The musicianship on this CD is first-rate, from the lead guitar to the backing vocals. Neil Young makes an appearance on "Prairie Town", and you even get two versions of this song - one rocks while the other is mellow. "Tailspin" will actually remind you of ZZ Top, and who among us can't relate to being "Overworked and Underpaid"? All in all, a very solid and worthwhile CD.

One of Canada's finest..........2005-02-08

Randy Bachman, prairie legend, writer and co-writer of some of the finest music Canada has put on the map now for four-plus decades, came out with this excellent CD in the early 90s, years after leaving Bachman-Turner Overdrive and before the REAL Guess Who would reunite. This album is full of great surprises, including one tune written by his son and future star Tal Bachman (who's just released his second album, by the way). This stuff is easily up there with BTO's best including the single Prairie Town, done as a straight-out rocker with a guest appearance from Neil Young, and as a ballad with Cowboy Junkies singer Margo Timmins. The rest of it is meat-and-potatoes rock & rool like "Underworked and Overpaid", the title track, and many other tracks. Enjoyable from start to finish. While Randy may not have a voice like his partners Messrs. Cummings or Turner, it suits the material just fine. Bachman has the chops and the ability to turn out stuff that just feels right the first time you hear it...one listen to this CD and you'll know why he's been around as long as he has. This is convertible-top-down, pedal-to-the-metal, takin'-care-of-business (sorry, couldn't resist) Canadian rock and roll the way it should be from one of its true masters. Don't pass this one by!

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Crisp and Raw

Sand in the Shower, Rust on the Road
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Manufacturer: Happy Mistake
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Release Date: 2005-03-08

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Squadron
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More Than Enough

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The Eugene, Oregon-based quartet Deke Falcon had been together only a little more than a year at the time of their first release, but it's an amazingly mature work. This is largely due to the already well-developed songwriting of frontman Patrick Hayden. His singing has an everyman immediacy, but can be sly and flexible as well. There's a Neil Young & Crazy Horse rough-and-tumble resonance to the playing on the ten songs, with arrangement sensibilities that land somewhere between Sonic Youth and Gram Parsons. The closer, "More Than Enough," trails off into the sunset in a psychedelic swirl of dust and splintered sunlight. --David Greenberger

Customer Reviews:

Crisp and Raw.......2005-03-09

I was amazed at this album, first becasue it is an album in the old sense of that word, a collection of songs that chip away at a constant thematic, in this case turning a crystaline clear eye on modern materialistic Americana. None the less, the recordings are raw, new and fresh and powerful. This is an album where the muscian has opened a vein, and poured it out.

It also rocks. I've found myslef leaving this one in the CD changer for a few weeks now, and am glad when it comes 'round again, for I always hear something new and interesting.

This is a voice that will be around for a long time I hope. Like James Joyce in Finnegans Wake, there is an epoic unfolding here. It is an album that will endure by an artist that obviously has much more to say.

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Good Music For Road Tripping

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Album Description

Called "the love child of Neil Young and Lucinda Williams," Seattle's Greg Bartlett sings original road songs. This full length CD, his first since leaving Rye, includes the gritty title track, Crying Alone, Backseat Of My Car, and I'm from Texas.

Customer Reviews:

Good Music For Road Tripping.......2004-04-08

Music from the soul that rocks in an alt country roadmusic way.
Songs about life...
If you are not on a road trip this music will get you started daydreaming and planning your next one...
This album is good for both solo road trips and group dashboard sing alongs.

If you like Steve Earl and Songwriter style music you will enjoy Greg Bartlett's music.

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1. Cowgirl in the Sand
2. Walk On
3. Fool for Your Love
4. Peace of Mind
5. Words (Between the Lines of Age)
6. Motorcycle Mama
7. Tonight's the Night
8. All Along the Watchtower