Well-known for his mercurial musical
instincts, Neil Young took a creative route, circuitous even
for him, to arrive at Silver & Gold, his latest release on
Reprise Records.
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Produced by the artist and Ben Keith and utilizing a
top-flight assemblage of supporting musicians including
drummers Jim Keltner and Oscar Butterworth, bassist Donald
'Duck' Dunn and keyboardist Spooner Oldham (as well as Keith,
himself, on pedal steel guitar and
dobro), Silver & Gold went through three distinct
incarnations over its nearly three-year gestation period.
The point of origin for the album's ten tracks can be
traced to mid-1997 when Young returned from headlining the
H.O.R.D.E. tour with the evolving notion of recording his
first-ever totally solo album. While, over the course of his
four-decade career, there have been abundant examples of his
solo artistry - "Heart Of Gold" springs most readily to mind -
the concept of a full tunestack of vocal and acoustic guitar originals
had yet to be realized.
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