You'd never guess from the title but Neil Young's 2021 album with Crazy Horse was recorded in a barn. The barn was built in Colorado in the 1850s & recently restored by Young. This version of Crazy Horse once again features Nils Lofgren as Frank Sampedro seems to be permanently retired. This has a nice mix of dirty rockers & mellow numbers & at nearly 80 years young (pun intended), Neil & the band show no signs of slowing down.

You'd never guess from the title but Neil Young's 2021 album with Crazy Horse was recorded in a barn. The barn was built in Colorado in the 1850s & recently restored by Young. This version of Crazy Horse once again features Nils Lofgren as Frank Sampedro seems to be permanently retired. This has a nice mix of dirty rockers & mellow numbers & at nearly 80 years young (pun intended), Neil & the band show no signs of slowing down.

"Dume" was originally released as part of the Archives Vol. II box set in 2020. The title comes from Pointe Dume, a promontory off the coast of Malibu where Neil & CRAZY HORSE wrote & recorded the songs. The sessions would be whittled down to form "Zuma" one of Neil & the band's greatest achievements. Now expanded with outtakes & alternate mixes, "Dume" is a new look at the "Zuma" era with 7 songs that have never been on vinyl before. This is as good as these Archives releases get in our opinion. RECOMMENDED!

The last few years have been a really great time to be a Neil Young fan & another "lost" album finally sees the light of day in 2022. Recorded in the early 2000s, "Toast" was hyped by Neil at the time as his next album then as has happened a few times with him, it was then mysteriously shelved until now. According to Neil, the album themes were based around marital problems he was having at the time & it was simply too painful for him to release into the wild. A few of the songs turned up on "Are You Passionate?" & have been played live but the versions here are alternate takes & there are a few songs that have never been released before. Early 2000s Crazy Horse was a ROCKING band & that's apparent right away. Quality wise this is up there with "Homegrown" & "Hitchhiker" which is pretty crazy if you think about it & it's definitely worthy of release. RECOMMENDED.