Black Dub consists of long‑standing Lanois collaborators drummer Brian Blade (Wayne Shorter, Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones), bassist Daryl Johnson, and the spectacular young Belgian‑American singer Trixie Whitley, daughter of the late blues singer Chris Whitley. The "cinematic” aspect of Lanois' ...
, Nash and Young, a country boy for his solo album Harvest, and the inventor of grunge with his noisy band Crazy Horse. The utter brilliance of his guitar playing is the only constant element, whether on an old Martin acoustic or his faithful modified Les Paul also known as Old Black....
In fact, Young’s relocation to ballad-ville was purely a practical concern at first: persistent back problems, which later required surgery, had made it painful for him to play his weighty “Old Black” Les Paul or other electrics and he simply couldn’t perform properly cranked or even st...
Towards the end of the set, fans were treated to a Neil Young acoustic set. The three song featured “Comes a Time,”“Heart of Gold,” and “Human Highway.” It was an almost surreal moment seeing such legend up on stage stripping it down to the bare bones. Sadly,...
Another main characteristic of Neil Young’s sound is surely hisguitar. He uses an oldGibson 53 Les Paul(know as ”Old Black”) modified with the originalP-90 neck pickupand amini bridge humbucker pickupfrom a Gibson Firebird. So, do you want toreplicate Neil Young’s guitar toneusing a...
Neil Young sparks change with Peace Trail The righteous buzz ofOld Blackopens “Heading West,” on which Neil Young recalls leaving with his mom as a boy after she’d divorced his dad. For the mother, heading west meant looking for “the good old days,” but for the son, it heralded ...
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“There’s a crack in everything…” adage at work, somehow cruelly. It also feels like spying a new dawn of folk song in an undisclosed slice of past – Neil Young via Les Cousins, if you want. It’s actually very close: it’s Laura Marling picking up an all-time favourite in ...
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