As Harp Magazine recently reported, Neil Young has announced a new album... and it's already finished!At first, I was a bit worried to hear that he wrote and recorded the album so quickly -- I mean, how good could something like that be. Then I remembered that he wrote "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" all in one day when he was sick with the flu.
The news that Neil Young has a complete album in the bag shocked all of us at JamBase. On the heels of his very successful 2005 release, Prairie Wind and with his award-winning documentary Neil Young: Heart of Gold in theatres now, no one saw this coming.
Filmmaker Jonathan Demme (who filmed Neil Young: Heart of Gold) recently sent an email stating; "Neil just finished writing and recording – with no warning – a new album called Living With War. It all happened in three days."
Young has long worked under the "strike while the iron is hot" mentality, often working in creative spurts and never forcing it. Well, it seems the iron must have been burning bright for him to create a complete album in three days!
As Katherine Silkaitis at Harp reported, Demme went on to say, "It is a brilliant electric assault, accompanied by a 100-voice choir, on Bush and the war in Iraq... Truly mind blowing. Will be in stores soon."
Details are sketchy at best, but the featured song, "Impeach the President" contains Bush's voice accompanied by a choir chanting "flip/flop."
If Neil gets deported over this album, then I'll really have something to write with regard to immigration.
No comments:
Post a Comment