NEIL YOUNG Are You Passionate? EURO 2002 Sealed/NEW LP

Reprise

Though Are You Passionate? is Neil Young's studio-recorded follow-up to 2000's Silver & Gold, it might well have emerged on the heels of Harvest Moon. While both Crazy Horse and Booker T. & the MGs swing by to add ballast to several of these 11 brand-new tracks, gentle weepers like "Don't Say You Love Me, " "When I Hold You in My Arms, " and the softly lilting title track recall Young's aforementioned 1992 work while suggesting that the once outspoken social critic and on-again, off-again CSN&Y member is mellowing. Further proof of that can be found in the tender opening song, "You're My Girl"--a postcard from a father to a daughter on the cusp of adulthood and presumably inspired by Young's daughter Amber--as well as in the lazy, languid "Two Old Friends." Are You Passionate?'s one serious clunker, "Let's Roll, " was inspired by the 9/11 cell-phone call Todd Beamer placed moments before he and other passengers on Flight 93 went down in a Pennsylvania field. You can't fault the guy for commemorating a heroic act and making a personal donation to the Beamer family, but all his talk of "going after Satan on the wings of a dove" and "facing down evil" sounds like a guy who's spent more time watching CNN than honing his lyrics. --Kim Hughes

Neil Young " Prairie Wind " AUDIOPHILE 200 Gram Vinyl 2 Record Album LP Set, BRAND NEW & Sealed..... Pressed on Classic's 200g Quiex Super Vinyl Profile..... Track Listings ...... The Painter No Wonder Falling Off the Face of the Earth Far From Home It's a Dream Prairie Wind Here for You This Old Guitar He Was the King When God Made Me Interview with Neil Young

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards); Frank Sampedro (guitar, keyboards); Billy Talbot (bass); Ralph Molina (drums).Producers: David Briggs, Tim Mulligan, Bernard Shakey.Personnel: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards); Ralph Molina (vocals, drums); Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (guitar, strings, keyboards).Recording information: Record Plant's Recording Truck.Director: Elliot Roberts.Photographers: Paul Goldsmith; Dick Pearce.In the fall of 1978, Neil Young and Crazy Horse undertook a tour that mixed in songs off of what became RUST NEVER SLEEPS with a variety of older material. The stage set included oversize amps and a road crew cloaked not unlike Star Wars' Jawas, making this tour's distinctions as visual as they were aural. The film and recording of this tour were released as LIVE RUST. The show starts out with Neil Young solo, using acoustic guitar, harmonica and piano to perform the country-folk "Sugar Mountain, " "I Am A Child, " "After The Gold Rush" and "Co