Neil Young After The Gold Rush LP 1970 US original gatefold + rare lyric poster

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Neil Young After The Gold Rush LP 1970 US original gatefold + rare lyric poster

Original US  1974 reissue pressing (RE2 printed and engraved after matrix numbers) on Reprise in heavy gatefold sleeve, with original Burbank inner sleeve (dated 1974) and lyric poster.

NB  Item weighs over 500g packed

After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. Released in September 1970 on Reprise Records, it was one of the four high-profile albums released by each member of folk rock collective Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu. Gold Rush consisted mainly of country folk music, along with the rocking "Southern Man". Songs were inspired by the Dean Stockwell-Herb Berman screenplay After the Gold Rush.

After the Gold Rush peaked at number eight on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; the two singles taken from the album, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance I Can Really Love", made it to number 33 and number 93 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. Critics were not initially impressed with the album, though it has since been considered a masterpiece, and appears on a number of greatest albums lists.

Initial sessions were conducted with backing band Crazy Horse at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles amid a short winter 1970 tour that included a well-received engagement with Steve Miller and Miles Davis at the Fillmore East. Despite the deteriorating health of rhythm guitarist Danny Whitten, the sessions yielded a smattering of released tracks, including "I Believe In You," "Oh, Lonesome Me," "Birds" (issued as a B-side) and "When You Dance I Can Really Love". Most of the album was recorded at a makeshift basement studio in Young's Topanga Canyon home during the spring with Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young bassist Greg Reeves, drummer Ralph Molina of Crazy Horse, and burgeoning eighteen-year-old musical prodigy Nils Lofgren of the Washington, DC-based band Grin on piano. The incorporation of Lofgren was a characteristically idiosyncratic decision by Young, as he had not played keyboards on a regular basis prior to the sessions. Along with fellow Young stalwart Jack Nitzsche, he would join an augmented Crazy Horse sans Young before enjoying his own group and solo cult success alternating with a 25-year membership in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The Young biography Shakey claims Young was intentionally trying to combine Crazy Horse and CSNY on this release, with members of the former band appearing alongside Stephen Stills (who contributed backing vocals to "Only Love Can Break Your Heart") and Reeves.

The cover art is a solarized image of Young, walking past New York University School of Law, passing an old woman. The picture was taken by photographer Joel Bernstein and was reportedly out of focus. It was because of this he decided to mask the blurred face by solarizing the image. The photo is cropped, the original image includes Young's friend and occasional collaborator Graham Nash.

Personnel:

    Neil Young — guitar, piano, harmonica, vibes, lead vocals

    Danny Whitten — guitar, vocals

    Nils Lofgren — guitar, piano, vocals

    Jack Nitzsche — piano

    Billy Talbot — bass

    Greg Reeves — bass

    Ralph Molina — drums, vocals

    Stephen Stills — vocals

    Bill Peterson — flugelhorn

Side one

    "Tell Me Why" – 2:54

    "After the Gold Rush" – 3:45

    "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" – 3:05

    "Southern Man" – 5:31

    "Till the Morning Comes" – 1:17

Side two

    "Oh, Lonesome Me" (Don Gibson) – 3:47

    "Don't Let It Bring You Down" – 2:56

    "Birds" – 2:34

    "When You Dance I Can Really Love" – 4:05

    "I Believe in You" – 3:24

    "Cripple Creek Ferry" – 1:34

CONDITION:

SLEEVE: EX++ to NM—   Poster is AS NEW

RECORD: NM—  Spotless labels, glossy vinyl and pure sound

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