☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“He takes the stage clad in a tattered <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PlaidShirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PlaidShirt</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/jeans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>jeans</span></a> and a Casey Jones hat pulled down over his face: in old age, he increasingly looks less like a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RockStar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RockStar</span></a> than a mechanic from a small American town who distrusts anyone not born within a mile radius of its centre. </p><p>He dispatches a version of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SugarMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SugarMountain</span></a> on acoustic guitar, before the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ChromeHearts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChromeHearts</span></a> arrive. This is essentially his earlier outfit <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PromiseOfTheReal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PromiseOfTheReal</span></a> augmented by 82-year-old keyboard player <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SpoonerOldham" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpoonerOldham</span></a>, a man whose career stretches back to Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett’s legendary late 60s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/albums" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>albums</span></a>. </p><p>They may well be the best backing band Young has assembled since <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CrazyHorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CrazyHorse</span></a>, their <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/sound" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sound</span></a> simultaneously tumultuous and lumbering and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HeavilyDistorted" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HeavilyDistorted</span></a>.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CheckShirts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CheckShirts</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/guitars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>guitars</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LoudMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LoudMusic</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Noisemaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Noisemaker</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Glasto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Glasto</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/29/neil-young-at-glastonbury-review-ragged-glory-from-a-noisemaker-who-never-treads-the-easy-path" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/music/2025/jun</span><span class="invisible">/29/neil-young-at-glastonbury-review-ragged-glory-from-a-noisemaker-who-never-treads-the-easy-path</span></a>&gt;</p>