Word: goldrushed
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Women of the Goldrush...
...this is still America, and we are still free to decide. Grass roots bands thrive on listener support, and even the most hopeless MTV junkie has felt the goldrush thrill of hearing a no-name album and discovering that it is really, really good. Word of mouth is the advertising market of music that stands on its own, that refuses to be ignored. Simply put, if an album is worth owning, people will hear about it. Napster, for all its blatant disregard for the law, provided the most organized and extensive word of mouth forum on the planet...
While generally weak, it is an encouraging album. Young's most brilliant, visceral work has always followed such mediocre transitional albums: "Everybody knows This is Nowhere" (1969) and classic "After the Goldrush" (1970) followed the disappointing album, "Neil Young"; the dark, powerful "On the Beach" (1974) and "Tonight's the Night" (1975) followed the drunk and disorderly "Time Fades Away" (1973). Moreover, Young's finest work has always had a country tinge: witness "Harvest" (1972) and "Comes a Time...
...there are an awful lotta people who would, like roughly 25,000. My roommate wanted nothing more than to see Neil Young, but that was before Harvest. I'm inclined to agree; it's been artistically downhill for him ever since the momentary flashes of brilliance on After the Goldrush. But Jesus, what can you expect from a guy responsible for "Hello Cowgirl in the Sand/Is this place at your command...
...real cowboy songs are mostly slow and nostalgic, that with a few exceptional cona ti yi yonpy, yonpy ya's, herders sang to quiet the cattle or to soothe themselves at the end of a hard day's ride. When sound movies brought the songwriters' goldrush to Hollywood, Billy Hill went there too, wrote songs and sold them for $15 and $20 apiece, changed his name to George Brown because no one would believe that Billy Hill (he was christened William Joseph) was not just a parody on hillbilly. Louis Bernstein, president of Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. urged...
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