Neil Young Before and After (LP Vinyl)

Recorded late in a career that stretches back to the Laurel Canyon folk scene of the mid-1960s, Young has always returned to the solo acoustic setting as a kind of true north, from the spare confessionals of *Harvest* to the raw intimacy of *Tonight’s the Night*. *Before and After* arrives in that same spirit, a reminder that beneath the electric squall of Crazy Horse and the sprawling studio experiments, there’s always been a man and his guitar at the center of everything.

On Before And After, Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone on a solo acoustic journey. Each of the songs blend into each other and morph with mesmerizing clarity into a continuous flow of music creating a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience. The 13-track album spans Neils career, from Neils early Buffalo Springfield contribution, “Burned” (1966) to the recent “Don’t Forget Love”(2021) and includes the previously unreleased song If You Got Love.

As Neil put it on his NYA site:
Songs from my life, recently recorded, create a music montage with no beginnings or endings. The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece. Only for listening.

Tracklist

Side A

A1. I’m The Ocean (6:44)
A2. Homefires (2:04)
A3. Burned (2:06)
A4. On The Way Home (3:16)
A5. If You Got Love (3:31)
A6. A Dream That Can Last (4:32)
A7. Birds (2:47)

Side B

B1. My Heart (3:01)
B2. When I Hold You In My Arms (5:23)
B3. Mother Earth (3:43)
B4. Mr. Soul (3:42)
B5. Comes a Time (3:20)
B6. Don’t Forget Love (3:41)

UPC: 093624849858
Label: Reprise / Wea
Release Date: 12.8.23
Format: LP Vinyl