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Young began his eccentric campaign last summer with the release of a concert film and a new album, both titled Rust Never Sleeps. The record illustrated his two-headed ability to craft folkie ballads and to spit sizzling rockers while avoiding accusations of hypocrisy. Young is serious about both styles, and his integrity defies critics who claim that he has never committed himself to one type of music. The final installment of Rust is the soundtrack of the movie, Live Rust, a double-album set which stands on its own as a summary of Young's 16-year career...
...Live Rust is more than a revision or repackaging of Young's first greatest hits anthology, Decade. Most of the tracks are veterans of the Young repertoire, but he presents them with a startling power he often failed to generate in the past. Freed form the technical perfection of the studio, he unleashes the emotions that have provided the foundations for his best song-writing...
...Live Rust fulfills the requirement of a live album; it reproduces the aura of the performance. Young sounds very alone on stage as he strums through the melodic "I Am A Child." He infuses all of his acoustic work with an honest urgency, conveying the innocence he once knew and the troubles he has weathered. His down-homey harmonica improvisation meshes well with unpretentious guitar and piano arrangements. When backed by the lastest edition of Crazy Horse, Young reveals his flair for the heavy decibels, and shows the rough, untarnished energy of his electric music...
Although the songs themselves are undisciplined, Young has carefully constructed Live Rust as a thematic progression, a roadmap of his journey. The tour begins appropriately with "Sugar Mountain," a song he wrote on his nineteenth birthday...
...ACOUSTIC FIRST SET ends with "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)"--the unaccompanied version of his enigmatic tribute to rock and roll. As he did on Rust Never Sleeps, Young repeats the song later with the enthusiastic aid of Crazy Horsemen Frank Sampedro (rhythm guitar), Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums...