Neil Young - Harvest Moon (cover by Luis Gomes)

Описание: For this next video I'd like to do something different and perform a lovely song from one of my favourite musicians and composers... Neil Young!!!
"Harvest Moon" is the title song from his 19th studio album released on November 2nd, 1992. It's a bookmark wedged in the centre of one of the most interesting and fraught periods in the Neil Young's monumental career in which emerged from his search for a more peaceful sound.

In the early ’90s, when grunge was a relentless ooze across youth culture, Neil Young was cool again. After reuniting with Crazy Horse for the rip-roaring and brilliant Ragged Glory album from 1990, the chugging guitar rock of Young’s soft country roots was resonating with young music fans. He was heralded the ‘Godfather of Grunge’ after ’90s icons like Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder, who cited him as a huge influence on their songwriting. He even took Sonic Youth on tour with him. While Neil Young’s popularity grew among adolescent music fans, his return to form was winning back an older, disillusioned fan base after a dismal period during the ’80s, which consisted of several unsuccessful experiments with new genres, including a puzzling rockabilly album, and a subsequent lawsuit from his record company for making music that was “unrepresentative to Neil Young”.

After touring Ragged Glory he developed hyperacusis, a condition that makes it sounds like everything is turned up way too high, which eventually led to tinnitus and a hearing loss. Because Young’s hearing had become softer, he was forced to pack away all the chaos, clutter, hype, and scrutiny that had been following him for 20 years to make space for an album where he was able to recline back into a much gentler and tender sound, and it turned out to be the making of Harvest Moon.

It’s a record bathing in nostalgia, and there isn’t a genre out there that can conjure sentiment and wistfulness as well as country and folk. The album is as stripped back as Young could make it without regressing to just himself and an acoustic guitar. Many of its backing musicians also appeared on his most critically succesful 1972 album Harvest. His pinched vocals are backed by drums, bass, and piano, and enriched when the notes slide off co-producer Ben Keith’s pedal steel guitar, but when the songs steer towards a crescendo, Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor’s sublime harmonies are all that are needed to propel them. At the time of recording, he was in his mid-forties, both a father and a husband, and was reflecting on a career where he had grappled with success, controversy, and tragedy. His confrontations with these themes are mixed into songs like the title track, written only for his then wife Pegi Young. The song uses a moon motif, which Young has mentioned as being very important to him and having quasi-religious undertones. Simple and lovely... one of the most remarkable songs of his career.

Hope you enjoy my humble tribute to this beautiful tune. Stay safe and Peace & Love everybody!!!