After The Gold Rush - Neil Young (1970)

[DudeAsInCool]

After the Gold Rush - Neil Young (1970)

For his third album, Young fired Crazy Horse (the first of many times he would do that), picked up an acoustic guitar and headed to his basement. He installed recording equipment in the cellar of his Topanga Canyon home in Los Angeles, leaving room for only three or four people. There, Young made an album of heartbreaking ballads such as "Tell Me Why" and "Don't Let It Bring You Down." The music is gentle, which didn't mean Young wanted it smooth. Nils Lofgren, then an seventeen-year-old hotshot guitarist, squeezed into the sessions -- only to have Young assign him to the piano, an instrument he had never played in his life.

Total album sales: 2.5 million

Peak chart position: 8

[DudeAsInCool]

I preferred his first album with Crazy Horse... any other thoughts?

[Kooperman]

Both are strong albums, just done in different veins. I don't think I could choose between the two, so I'm going to combine them into a double album, Everybody Knows This Is The Gold Rush....so there.

[desdemona]

"After the Gold Rush" is my favorite neil young album, every song was memorable, I think it's the best album he ever recorded. southern man had some of the best guitar playing I've ever heard from him,then or since.

Southern man better keep your head

Don't forget what your good book said

Southern change gonna come at last

Now your crosses are burning fast

Southern man

I saw cotton and I saw black

Tall white mansions and little shacks

Southern man when will you pay them back?

I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking

How long? How long?

Southern man better keep your head

Don't forget what your good book said

Southern change gonna come at last

Now your crosses are burning fast

Southern man

Lily Belle, your hair is golden brown

I've seen your black man comin' round

Swear by God I'm gonna cut him down!

I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking

How long? How long?

[Redneck4sure]

Yes and in the words of Lynyrd Skynyrd in Sweet Home Alabama, "I hope Neil Young will remember. Southern man don't need him around anyhow."

Big wheels keep on turning,

carry me home to see my kin

singing songs about the southland.

I miss ole bamy once again and I think it's a sin.

Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her.

Well, I heard ole Neil put her down.

Well, I hope Neil Young will remember

a southern man don't need him around anyhow.

Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue.

Sweet home Alabama, Lord, I'm coming home to you.

In Birmingham they love the Gov'nor.

Now we all did what we could do.

Now Watergate does not bother me.

Does your conscience bother you, tell the truth.

Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue.

Sweet home Alabama, Lord, I'm coming home to you.

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers

and they ve been known to pick a song or two.

Lord, they get me off so much,

they pick me up when I'm feeling blue, now how about you.

Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue.

Sweet home Alabama, Lord, I'm coming home to you.

Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue.

Sweet home Alabama, Lord, I'm coming home to you.

[desdemona]

<_> Edited May 20, 2004 by desdemona