The Cover Art for Neil Youngs Album Silver and Gold Is a Photo Taken With a Game Boy Camera
Silverish & Aureate by Neil Young - 2000
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Silver & GOLD
A Rails By Rail COMMENTARY Past NEIL YOUNG
"Silverish & Gold" was released in April 2000. The cover shot for this album was taken by Neil'south daughter Amber on a Nintendo Game Boy Photographic camera.
Proficient To See Y'all – "I wrote this on the back of the bus, early on on in the tour. All I had was the line 'Good to encounter y'all,' and I thought, 'Well, what good is that?' Merely information technology said what needed to be said. Information technology'southward nigh coming home after existence gone a long fourth dimension."
Silver & Gold – "This i says to me that relationships are more than important than material things. You could have a look at me and say I was actually full of it, considering I have so many possessions information technology's ridiculous. Just it'south dawning on me how useless most of them are."
Daddy Went Walkin' - "It'south got my father in it, but I think it'south virtually everybody's father, everybody'due south parents. It'southward similar taking a wait at these old folks who have lost their mates, or who've gotten a divorce years ago, like my parents. And it's about kids hoping that their parents will go dorsum together over again. It's a hope all kids in that situation have, I remember."
Buffalo Springfield Over again – "What'southward absurd almost CSN&Y is it gives Stephen and me a chance to play around with what nosotros were doing back then and accept it to another level. When he came upward to the ranch to work on the box ready, part of it was kind of depressing in the end considering I think we both felt like it had all been cut short. We realized how much more than in that location was for united states to exercise."
The Great Divide – "This is a good case of a vocal that you lot can't just suspension out when you're sitting around with a bunch of friends having a practiced fourth dimension. You have to have exactly the correct people and the right situation. Fortunately I did. Ben Keith plays steel on that one and Oscar Butterworth did a not bad job on drums."
Horseshoe Man – "He's the one we can all count on, the ane who makes things interesting. He fixes broken hearts by taking the pieces and throwing them up and down. He shakes things up."
Red Lord's day – "I wrote this vocal on a really fresh mean solar day. My head was feeling good and I was really open up. I remember I was by myself when I did information technology and, by the cease, I was crying. Information technology was very emotional. I kept hearing Emmylou Harris' vox on information technology and I finally ended up taking information technology to Tucson to Linda Ronstadt'south business firm, where she and Emmylou were working on an album with Dolly Parton. They ended up singing on a lot of the songs on this album, but this one really got to me. The song's got a little bit of religion in it and Emmylou's voice, particularly, is suited to that."
Distant Camera – "In that location was i affair I permit go along this anthology. It'southward on this song and it yet bothers me. There was a misplaced vanquish and nobody liked it but me and I wanted to leave it in considering that's merely the manner it had happened originally. Only I took it out and to this day, whenever I hear this song I think about that kick drum. And I probably always volition. That'southward merely the way my heed works."
Razor Love – "Information technology cuts clean through. It's the kind of beloved that cuts clean through everything."
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Without Rings - "This is one of the start songs I recorded, back when I thought I was doing an acoustic solo album. It'southward another ane I wrote in the back of the coach, somewhere in Florida at some weird amusement park in the middle of the Everglades. I had this big piece of newspaper with felt tip marking writing all over it. Information technology'southward kind of like 'Mr. Soul,' inasmuch every bit it was written on a piece of newspaper with a felt tip marker and information technology all came out in 1 long line then information technology was washed."
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