Years I couldnt endure to hear Neil Young wail. It was like hes sliding all around the pitch, making a mess of a good song, sounding like a barn door swingin in the wind that needs the hinges to be greased. There was a song I used to like that Ian Tyson wrote up in Canada in the early 60s that he and Sylvia did with their melancholy sweetness harmonies of a tender-hearted 1960s coffeehouse ballad. It was Four Strong Winds. Bobby Bare did it too in 1964 dispassionately, and John Denver did it with his slow saccharine gentle forgiveness, and Waylon did it with some approaching-manly definition, and Alyson Krauss did it like a wounded dove, and The Seekers did it with smooth 60s tepid longing tear-in-the-eye vapidity, and Blue Rodeo did it with mechanical rote, and Johnny Cash NAILED IT because its his from the soul, real felt hurt and real gone from heaven loss, and Bob Dylan did it sympathetically from the heart, and the Brothers Four did it as a coffeehouse slice of carrot cake, and the Chad Mitchell Trio did it as a polite statement of fact, and its been done well by Hank Snow who had been blown in the solitude of prairie winds, AND its done indifferently by Judy Collins, Marianne Faithfull, The Searchers, The Kingston Trio, Trini Lopez, Chad and Jeremy, The Wolfe Tones, The Tragically Hip, Joan Baez, Vanity Fare, Glenn Yarborough, Tony Rice, Sarah McLachlan, David Wiffen, and Schooner Fare, AND others and others who did as a warmed-over serving of roadhouse hash. But Neil Young did it backed by Willie Nelson at the 1993 Farm Aid fund-raiser in Ames, Iowa, with the pain of the insane soul destroyed tragedy of broken cosmic love, like an Orpheus Neil Young sings it with guitar and mouth-harp than lyre and Pan flute through hell to bring back joyfully his Eurydice, but doomed to fail because love must look back with loves care and longing, and then nothings left for him but to wander through the wild solitudes of Thrace, the rocks and rivers and the trees his only companions, ripped finally apart by the frenzies of his emotional Maenads, the Orpheus who once with Jason by music drowned the Sirens fatal voices but cannot not quell his demons of lost love. https://youtube/watch?v=jMHuGVC4QSY&spfreload=10
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:48:59 +0000
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