NEIL YOUNG Prairie Wind REPRISE 49593-1 Audiophile 200g 2LP Set SEALED

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NEIL YOUNG Prairie Wind
New & Sealed Audiophile Vinyl 2 Record Set

Record Label: Reprise 49593-1

200 Gram High Quality Vinyl. Includes booklet with lyrics and photos and comes with printed inner sleeves.

Condition: New and still sealed in it's original plastic sleeve. Perforation is completely intact. Corners are sharp and unbent. Spine, top and bottom are solid and free of chipping or splits. Mint.

Side One
1. The Painter
2. No Wonder
3. Falling Off the Face of the Earth
4. Far from Home

Side Two
5. It's a Dream
6. Prairie Wind
7. Here for You

Side Three
8. This Old Guitar
9. He Was the King
10. When God Made Me

Side Four
11. An Interview With Neil Young

Review: Neil Young always seems to be making a comeback, but detractors who have diligently panned his releases from the 1990s and 2000s (and sometimes with good reason) will be forced to change their tune with 2005's PRAIRIE WIND. A plaintive, thoughtful, country-rock album that recalls both 1992's HARVEST MOON and 1972's HARVEST, PRAIRIE WIND is Young's strongest, most focused, and most compulsively listenable studio album since 1989's FREEDOM.

The most striking characteristic of the album is its mood, which is heavily nostalgic, melancholy, and, lyrically, full of reflections on memory, loss, and mortality. (The passing of Young's father and his own experience with a brain aneurysm seem likely influences for the tone here). In this way, it comes close to the emotional intensity of early '70s classics like TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT, though perhaps without the edge and ragged beauty of that work. Instead, Young cut the album in Nashville with top-shelf personnel (Spooner Oldham is among the usual suspects), giving PRAIRIE WIND a smooth veneer. Still, there is a great warmth and ease to the sound, and Young turns in some of his finest songs in ages: the simple, heart-rending "It's a Dream," for example. Young has established and shattered enough categories in his time that a return to classic form like this is well-earned, and much appreciated.