PRAIRIE WIND
| Neil Young
PRAIRIE WIND
Prairie Wind is the 26th studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on September 27, 2005. After dalliances with 1960s soul music (Are You Passionate ) and rock opera (Greendale, which spawned a Young-directed film of the same name), Prairie Wind featured an acoustic-based sound reminiscent of his earlier commercially successful albums Harvest and Harvest Moon. The album was in part inspired by the illness and recent death of his father, Canadian sportswriter and novelist Scott Young, and the album is dedicated in part to the elder Young. - WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
2005 - Young returns to familiar ground, the country-rock sound of Seventies discs such as Harvest and Comes a Time.
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Pitchfork
2005 - Prairie Wind tries to gauge the present via the past, but there's a profound disconnect.
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music OHM
2005 - The Godfather of grunge is back on the throne. Long may he reign.
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Wilson & Alroy Record Reviews
2005 - Lyrically it's mostly a reflection on the open sky, loss and love
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Adrian Denning
'Prairie Wind' does tend to be a little too smooth and downcast for it's own good.
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Don Iganacio
Prairie Wind is a highly recommendable album to his longtime fans; it is practically impossible for a longtime Neil Young fan to be disappointed with one of his albums, and I'm sure they'll love Prairie Wind bits.
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The Guardian
2005 - it feels as if he had simply dug out his most beautiful old songs and written new words.
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ALL MUSIC
it's the closest Young has come to making a record that could hold its own with those albums in well over a decade.
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sputnik
2006 - Praire Wind is a beautiful relaxing album that was greatly influenced by many incidents in Neil's life.
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BBC
2005 - The songs here return to the simple acoustic heartland that lies at the centre of some.
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paste
2005 - it doesn’t take long to see what most of Prairie Wind’s songs are about—Art, Life, Death, God, Friends, Family, Elvis, Politics.
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the art wolf
Prairie Wind is Young's most "essential" album since the release of the Harvest Moon in 1992.
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The Music Box
2005 - Prairie Wind finds Young bidding farewell to his Canadian homeland, his father, his family, his guitar, and Elvis, and the end result is a spiritual journey that encapsulates the fragile and fleeting nature of life itself.
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bryon crawford
2005 - If you can manage to tune out the actual songwriting, this does sound very similar to a lot of his best records.
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glide magazine
2005 - Young ditches his electric guitar and gets back to a rootsy, acoustic sound with songs that seemed ripped from some small Midwestern town that has tumbleweeds blowing down the street, and an old man on every porch with a story to tell.
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Alans Album Archives
‘Prairie Wind’ is the most rounded and deep Young albums since at least ‘Sleeps With Angels’ in 1994 and – ironically given the difficult circumstances – proves that there’s still life in the old dog yet.
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blog critics
2005 - The best way to describe it would be to call it a Neil Young album. Maybe not as hard edged as some of his earlier work.
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Vintage Rock
it’s clear Young hasn’t lost his gift for concocting poignant and effortless melodies that sound fresh, full-fledged, and fabulous. Long may he run.
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exclaim
005 - Prairie Wind is the return to form that was sorely needed.
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