Harvest (Rmst)

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On this number one 1972 album, even the singer’s acquired-taste voice comes across smooth and beautiful – the smash Heart of Gold, with steel guitars and Linda Ronstadt’s backup vocals, is by far young’s most commercial-sounding song. A number of luminaries—including James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash—also appear. On “Are You Ready for the Country,” Nitzsche’s slide guitar now cuts through with added sharpness and affords the music a more buoyant quality.

I can't believe this fragile jacket that seems like it was printed on a Wheat Thin is still holding up after 51 years. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Harvest, Neil Young’s fourth album, proved even more popular than its predecessor, After the Gold Rush. Harvest is the fourth studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released in February 1972 on Reprise Records, catalogue number MS 2032. Time has been generous to Harvest,which features more lyrical depth than its outward romanticism may suggest.

Americana - steel, guitar, slide guitar, banjo - stripped down and rebuilt with every jagged edge exposed.

I’m very late to the Neil Young party, he’s one of those artists I’ve known about but just never really listened to. I’ve listened to Harvest a couple of times on Qobuz and thought it might be a nice one to start my NY collection on vinyl.In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. Harvest Moon is in some ways a better album, without the orchestral bombast that stifled some of the songs on the first album and boasting a more diverse overall selection of songs.

By contrast, “Alabama” still may come across as an unsubtle retread of “Southern Man,” but it works well as a rave-up. Anyway, I’ve been listening a lot to Radio Paradise while working from home and he features fairly regularly on there and that has sort of piqued my interest to explore his (large! Its guitars cut deeper on the Reprise pressing—particularly the rhythm parts, conveyed with palpable tube-amp heat and buzz. On the title track, the piano accompanying Young’s guitar in the right channel seems easier to hear, too, and Keith’s pedal steel arrives with more force.All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. That's not the real Neil" barked a particularly discerning Neil Young fan when I dared to suggest that 'Harvest' was my favourite album. However, the 2009 version delivers a greater three-dimensional presentation of the recording space and more timbral accuracy on individual instruments and voices. As with all the vinyl releases I’ve heard in Young’s Archive Series, Harvest stands as a model of how reissues should be done.

Though I often consider vinyl to be a bit like wine - worn vinyl has probably been thoroughly enjoyed and played often - you could keep vinyl unplayed or wine unopened but in both cases you don’t enjoy it! Do yourself and your ears a favour, listen to this remaster on a well set up turntable through a decent sound system and I guarantee you'll have every bit of the best audio experiences to be had bar none. When Crosby and Nash contribute vocals near the end of the track, their voices are fuller and harmonies clearer. I'd always thought the album sounded a little lacking in detail and presence, despite most aspects being top notch. One of his very best and a shoe-in for classic status, Young detoured briefly to the Nashville mainstream.The box sets are completed by two DVDs which provide a new glimpse into ‘Harvest’: The first is ‘Harvest Time’, an unreleased two-hour film shot during the making of ‘Harvest’, with footage from Young’s ‘Harvest Barn’ sessions in Northern California, recording sessions in Nashville and London. During “A Man Needs a Maid,” the lower register on Young’s piano feels more emphatic, which makes for a less-abrupt transition to Nitzsche’s arrangement for the London Symphony Orchestra. Mastering and soundstaging have achieved an effect whereby it sounds like Neil is sitting in my living room playing casually. Also included are three unreleased tracks from the original Harvest sessions: “Bad Fog of Loneliness,” “Journey Through The Past,” and “Dance Dance Dance.