Road Rock Vol.1

Road Rock Vol.1
If you ignore the vocoderised tat of Trans or the infamous “unrepresentative material” phase on Geffen Records, Neil Young’s career has always been pretty much of a bi-polarised affair. Placid, rocking-chair folkie one minute, griseous ear-crunching grungester the next–and often within the space of two successive albums. Thus, Road Rock Volume 1, recorded at Red Rocks in Denver in September 2000, is another one of those snarling, over-amplified distortion-fests along the lines of the timelessly classic Weld. Well, almost. Certainly, the stuttering, 18-minute version of “Cowgirl In The Sand”–on which Young strangles every last splutter and wheeze from his guitar while wringing its neck like that of some troublesome chicken–manages to express a raucous kinship with his previous electric live recordings. As does a heavy-legged march through “All Along The Watchtower”, wherein Young and guest vocalist Chrissie Hynde positively froth at the mouth with the righteousness of crazy preachers. Otherwise, “Tonight’s The Night” not withstanding, it’s a refreshing track-listing, the best example of which is the “Wonderin’”-style dishevelled blues-rock of “Fool For Your Love”, a song written and performed at the time of 1988’s This Note’s For You but never officially made available on record until now. –Kevin Maidment

Customer Review: On the right road
This is Neil at his best and with a fine backing band this album is superb!The opener “Cowgirl in the sand” is as stunning as usual and Ben Keith plays some fine rhythm guitar alongsides Neil’s intense vocals and lead guitar.The version of “Words” is amazing and yet again Neil is in fine voice and the guitar work is more direct than on “Harvest”.Another amazing version is “Tonight’s the night”which sticks pretty closely to the album version with Neil on Piano and Ben Keith playing the most amazing slide guitar.This is just as spooky as the original !
A blistering version of Dylan’s “all along the Watchtower” ends this fantastic album with Chrissie Hynde the guest artist
Neil comes up with a few surprises,the beautiful “Peace of mind”,”Fool for your love” and “Motorcycle Mama” from comes a time!
Just look at his classic band-Jimmy Keltner,Ben Keith,Spooner Oldham and Donald Duck Dunn !Astrid and Pegi are fine back up singers,so buy this one,it’s a killer !
Road Rock volume 2 will be released shortly in 2010 !!!!!

Customer Review: Yea, real neil
great live album where you can hear the words as well as the guitar. Was NY in a good mood? Can be played right through without any annoying tracks, but i avoid #1 “cowgirl”.

Walk on, Fool for you love, piece of mind, words etc …. the whole album fits together and can be played and replayed. Not just an album with 1-2 interesting tracks,

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