Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
Critic Score
Based on 29 reviews
2012 Ratings: #775 / 1118
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Based on 39 ratings
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
PopMatters

Americana is, finally, Neil Young’s best and most complete record since 1994’s Sleeps With Angels

88
Paste

Hard-charging, insistently keeping the beats, this is traditional American music set on stun. 

75
A.V. Club

Equal parts stopgap, warm-up, and crusty homage, Americana doesn’t take its subject matter, or itself, too seriously. 

70
Consequence of Sound

On Americana, Young is constantly sculpting and shaping the material at hand, creating and manipulating meaning whenever possible.

JustSomeGuy
40

Neil Young covers traditional americana songs with a distorted hard rock sound... it's boring.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of cover albums to begin with, and I'm even less of a fan of americana, so an album of americana covers wasn't going to leave me impressed regardless of what Neil did with them. Thankfully the instrumentation does save some of these songs, but there's too few that I actually care about on here for me to even say that I like anything about this record.

Sure, for a covers album, it ... read more

Z.Younk
79

No other americana songs cover album could amount to this creatively. Crazy Horse and Neil milked these standards for every ounce of worth.

koner1
42

If you're gonna cover a national anthem on an album called Americana, don't you think it makes sense to cover I don't know... THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER?

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Track List

  1. Oh Susannah
  2. Clementine

  3. Tom Dooley
  4. 
Gallows Pole

  5. Get A Job

  6. Travel On

  7. High Flyin’ Bird

  8. She’ll Be Comin ’Round The Mountain
  9. This Land Is Your Land

  10. Wayfarin’ Stranger

  11. God Save The Queen

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Added on: March 19, 2012