Vacant Horizon

nice post here. i've been hot and cold with jay over the years, but as i said in an earlier post, jay has emerged as one of my top 3. it really did take jay a few years to get son volt back together. okemah and the search are excellent, but different. i loved terroir blues, but hated the tour with canyon. jesus, that band sucked ass. keyboards were terrible and i'm glad that dude left son volt. now he's cheesing up jason isbell's sets. i really want to warm up to stone steel at some point thought.

saw him solo in 04 with spencer. stood up the whole time and didn't even care. the show was amazing! i hope he tours solo again at some point. not many artists solo are as compelling as tweed and farrar. maybe neil young. incidently, i went to see mark kozelek a few weeks later at the same venue and it was terrible. also, i hope jay gets to some more of his new folk stuff a la gob iron. that would make for a good solo outing.

i think he's got maybe 1 or 2 masterpieces left. however, i don't think we're gonna get those until neil is well into his 70s. when all he can do is sit, play his acoustic, and sing low...we'll get some classic neil. interestingly since prairie wind it's basically been every other album being pretty good.

i actually like the 'songs' on LOW, but the production is terrible. the song drifter would make an awesome acoustic powerhouse in the vein of hitchhiker i think.

Neil's set from last night. Mr. Soul / When You Dance, I Can Really Love / Are You Ready For The Country? / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / Spirit Road / Barstool Blues / Words / Cinnamon Girl / Mother Earth / Change Your Mind / The Needle And The Damage Done / Lost In Space / The Ways Of Love / Goin' Back / Heart Of Gold / Old Man / Speakin' Out / Tonight's The Night / Albuquerque / World On A String / Hit The Road / Get Behind The Wheel / Just Singing A Song // Love And Only Love true to form, the dude put's out probably his worst album and then plays a set like this! gonna have t

personally, my problem with emusic is that i download 30 songs in half an hour on a whim only to delete it all later. my $10 is better spent on a new cd that i really really want. the next one being the new wilco:)

true, downloads are way overpriced. $5 for an album would solve a lot of problems with pirating and bring in so much more revenue. the ease of downloading at itunes or amazon is so great. if albums were only $5, i would never torrent again. seriously!

the people that want it and that want to support you will get the music legitimately. others may get it 'free' but only listen to it a few times only to delete it. consumers finally have the power to review music before they buy it. i used to buy lots of music, only to get totally screwed by how bad it was. now, i 'review' music and buy what a really like and by artists who really have something to say and aren't just some 'other indie band' clogging up the already saturated pipes.

his titles make me say, 'fuck yeah!'...so much to sink your teeth into both lyrically and musically. btw, really digging the search, but am glad the new one is gonna be back to basics. space junk, to be precise. i love that shit!

thanks for the kudos Wendy. the next few months are gonna be great with son volt and wilco releases. i think the title of the new son volt album is classic farrar.

well said. i'm beginning to re-read shakey and i'm convinced neil is an asshole and everyone just gives into him. i'm beginning to think geffen was right in suing neil. reprise needs to do the same. they should have shit on cdII and said put the archives out now or we're dropping you. 'nuff said.

farrar never disappoints. this sounds like it's going to be another classic. i've been doing a lot of soul searching musically as of late and tweedy and farrar are really all i need. two of the greatest song writers of the last 2 decades.

yep.

seeds?

it just feels "soul-less". the organ sounds good though.

was really looking forward to this, but it is really boring. too bad.

http://www.glidemagazine.com/articles/54606/neil-young.html glide magazine review. spot on! i would add old ways and blue notes to their list of shitty neil albums.

yeah, nothing better than a good local cd shop with a nice staff. it's impossible for big box stores and big book stores to sell cds anymore. that leaves room for good indie stores and for USED stores. that's where the business is gonna be these days. used cds.

good points. as for record stores, i'm not lamenting the assholes who lose jobs. yes, blueray is really not catching on. at some point, everything will be stored in the 'cloud' with no need for physical media...however, vinyl will never go away and there will still be a market for deluxe sets in the future. as far as fidelity goes, tests have been done where people cannot tell the difference between lossless and 192kbs. everything we buy now is at least 256kbs which sounds just like a cd. only audiophiles can tell the difference because or their ridiculous audio systems. compression is n

after a few listens, i'm having a hard time getting all the way through. i like the music of cough, but he lyrics and the rap is just unlistenable. i love light a candle. just singing a song is okay too as is the other slow one. the rest is really bad.

well, i am so hot and cold with neil. but, i like neil. i like his guitar sound and his voice. so, i just decided to listen to this album that way. on a quick first listen though, it is junk. and, if somebody had put this out as a second album, the would be immediately dropped upon release:)

i actually like the album. it's quick and actually has two good songs...light a candle being one...still wish Get Around was on there):

too bad one of his best new songs is not on the album...Get Around...there is a video up on mog.com though. oh well