“He takes the stage clad in a tattered #PlaidShirt, #jeans and a Casey Jones hat pulled down over his face: in old age, he increasingly looks less like a #RockStar than a mechanic from a small American town who distrusts anyone not born within a mile radius of its centre.
He dispatches a version of #SugarMountain on acoustic guitar, before the #ChromeHearts arrive. This is essentially his earlier outfit #PromiseOfTheReal augmented by 82-year-old keyboard player #SpoonerOldham, a man whose career stretches back to Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett’s legendary late 60s #albums.
They may well be the best backing band Young has assembled since #CrazyHorse, their #sound simultaneously tumultuous and lumbering and #HeavilyDistorted.”
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