The Bottom Line
- "Let's Impeach the President"
- "Looking for a Leader"
- "Shock & Awe"
- "Families"
- None
Description
- Ten tracks, nine originals with a cover of "America The Beautiful."
- Produced and arranged by Neil Young, co-produced with Niko Bolas and L.A. Johnson.
- A straight-ahead, no-holds-barred protest album from one of the greatest singer/songwriters alive.
Guide Review - Neil Young - Living With War
There are no punches pulled here. Young speaks out frankly and truthfully, ripping news from the headlines and putting it in his razor-edged lyrics. From the hard one-two punch of "Shock & Awe" ("Back in the days of 'mission accomplished'/ Our chief was landing on the deck/ The sun was setting on a golden photo op/ Back in the days of 'mission accomplished'/ Thousands of bodies in the ground/ Brought home in a boxes to a trumpet's sound/ No one sees them coming home that way") to the TKO of "Let's Impeach The President," which includes some of Bush's more contradictory phrases (in Bush's own voice, no less), Neil Young is not at all afraid to tell it as he sees it.
Young's voice is still as craggy as it ever was, his delivery just as crisp. He remains a modern classic, an artist of incredible depth and honesty. His powerful roots sound makes this album a terrific straightforward folk-rock album whether or not one agrees with the politics. The disc closes with a painfully honest, absolutely straightforward choral version of "America the Beautiful," reminding us all what this country is, and should be. Thank you, Neil Young.
