NEW CONCERT STREAM: Neil Young w/ The Bluenotes - CNE, Toronto - August 18, 1988

Neil Young & The Bluenotes - ~1988

 

Last week, we posted on the newly uploaded concert stream of Neil Young solo at Fox Theatre, Atlanta on May 29, 2010.

Ticket Stub - Neil Young w/ The Bluenotes - CNE, Toronto  -  August 18, 1988 

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Today, another full concert as been uploaded to Concert Performance Timeline on Neil Young Archives: August 18, 1988  of Neil Young w/ The Bluenotes at  Canadian National Exhibition Grandstand, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Thanks courtesy of Harm and Tom and Patron Chris Popel, "who all just really wanted to hear this night's epic Sixty To Zero!")  

Timeline Concert | Neil Young Archives

 

Also, see Neil Young Archives: Complete Listing of "Timeline Concerts of the Week" + UPDATE: NYA Subscriber News.  

Also, check Bluenotes - Feature By John Einarson | Broken Arrow Magazine (#32, p. 23)

Neil Young Bluenote Café

 More on Neil Young's Bluenote Cafe double live album.

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REVIEW: Neil Young - Bluenote Café | Everybody’s Dummy

Neil Young Bluenote Café

Neil Young latest Performance Series release from the Neil Young Archives is Bluenote Café - which was released last week. The album collects various performances captured during Neil's 1988 tour.

From Everybody’s Dummy by Ward:

But as he’s proven before, it’s all one song, and hindsight has been very kind to some of his less successful experiments.

In a rare case of revisionism, the band now called Bluenote Café is celebrated with its own installment in his Performance Archive Series, and a double disc to boot. Where the album was a challenge, Bluenote Café presents two and a half hours of music in two sets, giving plenty of room for the band to stretch, and the songs to breathe.

The music comes from three stages of the Bluenotes era—a couple of shows when Crazy Horse was augmented with a horn section, a club tour with the established band on the album’s release, and then a shed tour later in the summer. In addition to most of This Note’s For You, several songs make their first album appearance, and a few other rarities help round out the picture. “Welcome To The Big Room” is something of a theme song, in a band that had several. “Don't Take Your Love Away From Me” translates well from the Shocking Pinks, “Hello Lonely Woman” is given a jolt of energy compared the pre-fame demo, and “Soul Of A Woman” is otherwise similar to the one on A Treasure but for the horns. A true highlight of the first set is “Bad News Comes To Town”, a terrific soul burner that uses the extra players as part of the dressing.

Full review at Everybody’s Dummy by Ward.

Also, see STREAM FULL ALBUM: Neil Young's Bluenote Café .

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Neil Young: Bluenote Café - "I'm Goin'" (Official Audio)

From Neil Young's Bluenote Café - "I'm Goin'" (Official Audio)

This is the latest Performance Series release from the Neil Young Archives. Bluenote Café was released last week on Reprise label. The album collects various performances captured during Neil's 1988 tour.

Also, see REVIEW: Neil Young - Bluenote Café | PopMatters.

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REVIEW: Neil Young - Bluenote Café | PopMatters

Neil Young Bluenote Café

Neil Young latest Performance Series release from the Neil Young Archives is Bluenote Café - which was released last week. The album collects various performances captured during Neil's 1988 tour.

From PopMatters by Chris Gerard:

Those who casually dismiss Neil Young’s ‘80s work would be well-advised to give it another close look.

Young wasn’t flailing about from style to style because he was desperately trying to fit into a new era and he was unsure how to do it. He was simply doing what he always does—whatever feels right to him at the time. One listen to A Treasure will reveal that far from being an intentional thorn in David Geffen’s side, Young was absolutely sincere and completely all-in to his “country” period, and the same is true with the tight blues-rock of Bluenote Café. Yeah, Young may have had trouble translating the sounds in his head into compelling studio albums during this period (a problem that would end once and for all at the end of the decade with Freedom), but in his live performances he was giving it all that he had and was totally invested in this music—it was never a lark. The same is true today. His most recent studio albums, Storytone and The Monsanto Years have been underwhelming to say the least, but his current tour is getting nothing but raves.

Neil Young isn’t afraid to try and fail—that’s the secret to his success and longevity.

He has earned the stature to do that in a fickle industry, and he’s still out there, nearly 50 years since his first album with Buffalo Springfield, doing exactly what he wants to do. We are all fortunate that he is, but we’re also fortunate that in the past decade he’s finally loosened the locks on his musical vault and has been unleashing one superb archival release after another, each covering another aspect of his vast musical legacy. Bluenote Café is essential Neil Young, and further evidence that Young’s ‘80s work has more value than many fans and critics would expect or admit.

Full review at PopMatters.

Also, see STREAM FULL ALBUM: Neil Young's Bluenote Café .

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