“Homegrown” reminds listeners why the years Neil Young remembers least fondly are the ones they admire the most
NEIL YOUNG’S instinct has always been to do whatever he sees fit at any given moment and damn the consequences. As if to underline this, the musician has just released—45 years after it was recorded—a remarkably strong album from his most fertile creative period. “Homegrown” is a heartsore, often downbeat, record. Many of the songs appear to allude to his failing relationship with the late Carrie Snodgress, an actor, with whom he has a son, Zeke.
“Homegrown” may thus be heard as an overdue fourth instalment in what Mr Young’s fans have described as “The Ditch Trilogy”: the series of records he made between the success of “Harvest” and his reconvening in 1975 of Crazy Horse, the backing band with whom he had made his second solo album, “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” .
The best live albums capture a time and place as well as a sense of who their creators were at that moment. “Time Fades Away” is no exception. Like much of Mr Young’s greatest music, it is raw, ragged and teetering on the brink of collapse—as indeed was the whole tour. The following year he released “On The Beach”, which many fans regard as his finest studio album. Like its predecessor, it was strung-out, paranoid and desolate.
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