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...little, and everything will settle down? Think again; that is not going to happen for a while. There are two immediate reasons why: the release the week of Oct. 14 of an impassioned all-star antiapartheid record, Sun City, and the congenial reverberations from last week's FarmAid, the concert that featured top rock and country-and-western talent drumming up support for the American farmer. Both the Sun City record and the FarmAid concert, held at a football stadium in Champaign, Ill., celebrate a unity within the music community even as they signal a further deepening of social awareness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs From the High Ground From Farm Aid to Apartheid, Rock Wrestles with Big Issues | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...films: Jessica Lange's Country, Sissy Spacek's The River and Sally Field's Places in the Heart, to name the most nauseating. But I disagree. America doesn't need PR--wary actresses to put the grit in gritgeist and make it a salable item. Instead, last week's FarmAID effort did just that...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: My Country Tis of Tree | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...year-old Young at his most self-assured since 1979's "Live Rust," arguably the finest live record in rock history. As the leitmotif cut "Get Back to the Country" (not the same as "Are You Ready for . . .") suggests, Young, the co-sponsor of last Sunday's 14-hour FarmAid extravaganza, has found what he says he wants to do with the rest of his life. And he's found the right people to do it with: those old outlaws, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, are on hand for several duets...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Neil Young Goes Twang | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

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