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Young's new album, Harvest Moon, is a new exercise in this sort of self-consciousness. There is no sarcastic bite to the music here, but, implicitly, he underscores what his alternative to prostituting old material: allow it lie fallow...
...Juliana: Harvest, and the new Harvest, which is good except for that song about...
Unbroken, but enlarged. Neil Young also has a record due out at the end of the month, a supple set of 10 ravishing songs called Harvest Moon (Reprise) that returns to the softer, folk-accented vein of earlier hits like Harvest. Lucinda Williams shows a bluesy heart and a folk spirit in her recent Sweet Old World (Chameleon/Elektra), and an intrepid small record company in New Jersey called Bar/None has a real comer in Freedy Johnson. His album, titled Can You Fly, features the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter stalking his own subconscious, sounding like a cross between Hank Williams...
...lives of Egyptians were closely tied to the Nile's annual flood cycle, and they were acutely aware of its influence on agriculture. They erected huge monolithic statues representing the god Min -- who symbolized fertility and the harvest -- and period tombs inevitably contain pottery, jars of wine and beer or platters of food. People were often buried with items related to their occupation: hunters with spearheads, political leaders with symbols of office...
...Ayacucho region of the Andes had domesticated guinea pigs and llamas by the time Iceman lived, and farmed potatoes, squash, beans and corn. Along the coastal desert of what is now northern Chile, the Chinchorro used woven fishing nets and hooks made of cactus thorns, shell and bone to harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably as a sacrament in ancestor worship. After removing internal organs and drying the cavf mdavers, they stuffed the remains with feathers, grass, shell, wool and earth...