Blog: Stereogum

Neil Young recently got his old fuzz-stomp band Crazy Horse back together to record Americana , an album that features the band doing stark, intense reading of the sort of American-standard songs that just about everyone in the country know but which tend to have hidden histories that say a whole lot about the country's history. (" She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain ": Apocalyptic slave spiritual! Also Appalachian union anthem!) The album is out soon, and now Young, under his Bernard Shakey alias, has made a silent-film-style 40-minute short about an author who visits an art gallery. Young [...]