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Title: Average singer - Great songs
Review: Neil Young has a nasal, sometimes annoying voice. His saving grace is that he writes great songs. This album has several, centred firmly on the Canadian prairie. The style is country rock - tending to the softer end of the spectrum but the lyrics are perceptive, sometimes whimsical and longing, often biting. For example, he describes the joyous scene of a wedding in a church he's previously described as "the fallen soldier bell". There are elements of nostalgia and undercurrents of bitterness ("Somewhere a senator sits in a leather chair ... He takes his money just like all the rest."). There's sweetness and love for both people present and those past. There are many lovely pictures in words.The more I've played this, the more I like it. I have a few albums that I simply can't put away. This is one.
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