(2020) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Return to Greendale


Review:
Neil Young release the live album/concert film Return to Greendale via Reprise Records. The audio/video set documents Neil Young & Crazy Horse‘s 2003 stop in Toronto during a tour in support of their Greendale concept album. Greendale is a rock opera about a fictional small town that is rocked by the death of a beloved police officer. Along the way, it addresses corporate greed, a scandal-obsessed media environment and Bush-era propaganda. It climaxes with one of the central figures, a teenage girl named Sun Green, heading off to Alaska to fight for the environment. Two months before it came out, Young and Crazy Horse launched a tour of North American amphitheaters where they played all 10 songs from the album in sequence with a large cast of actors and dancers. Many fans bought tickets thinking they were seeing a traditional Neil Young and Crazy Horse concert and were none-too-thrilled with the show, even if it ended with a brief set of Crazy Horse classics. Young directed the concert film and documentary under his Bernard Shakey pseudonym with L.A. Johnson handling production duties. Read more on Return to Greendale via press materials announcing the set: “The story of Greendale follows multiple generations of the Green family as they go about their lives in a fictional California town. Through the perspectives of multiple characters—Grandma, Grandpa, Edith, Earl, the doomed Jed, and eco-warrior Sun Green, among them—Young tells a poignant story about small-town America and the need for immediate action to save the environment. That need, of course, has only become more urgent. On Return to Greendale, the 10 songs from Young’s powerful original album are performed in sequence, with a cast of actors speaking the sung words, adding to the already blistering intensity of the performance.”





Tracklist:
01 - Falling from Above
02 - Double E
03 - Devil's Sidewalk
04 - Leave the Driving
05 - Carmichael
06 - Bandit
07 - Grandpa's Interview
08 - Bringin' Down Dinner
09 - Sun Green
10 - Be the Rain


Media Report:
Genre: rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits