Silver & Gold

Infobox Album |
Name = Silver & Gold
Type = Album
Artist = Neil Young


Released = April 25, 2000
Recorded = August 26, 1997 - May 28, 1999
Genre = Rock
Length = 39:10
Label = Reprise Records
Producer = Neil Young, Ben Keith
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ukjp7i32g71r link]
*Robert Christgau (C+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=neil+young link]
Last album = "Year of the Horse"
(1997)
This album = "Silver & Gold"
(2000)
Next album = "Road Rock Vol. 1"
(2000)

"Silver & Gold" is an album by Neil Young, released in 2000. Many of these songs were written as far back as 1976 (there is a bootleg of a Neil Young/Crazy Horse performance from 1976 which features "Razor Love"; for the "Freedom" sessions in 1988-89, Young attempted to record the song "Silver & Gold", which by his own estimation, he had been trying to get "the take" for around ten years at that point.)

Musically, the album is a return to the previous country/roots tinged material of earlier records like "Harvest" and "Comes A Time"; however, the lyrics suggest an artist becoming more in touch with his familial leanings, growing older, and becoming more complete as a person. Young looks back over his life and career with a warm, nostalgic view, even going so far as to state that he wouldn't mind a Buffalo Springfield reunion - "Like to see those guys again/And give it a shot" he sings wistfully in the song "Buffalo Springfield Again." The tone of the album is quiet and peaceful.

Track listing

All songs composed by Neil Young
# "Good to See You" – 2:49
# "Silver & Gold" – 3:16
# "Daddy Went Walkin'" – 4:01
# "Buffalo Springfield Again" – 3:23
# "The Great Divide" – 4:34
# "Horseshoe Man" – 4:00
# "Red Sun" – 2:48
# "Distant Camera" – 4:07
# "Razor Love" – 6:31
# "Without Rings" – 3:41

Personnel

*Neil Young: guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal
*Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar, vocal
*Spooner Oldham: piano, organ
*Donald "Duck" Dunn: bass
*Jim Keltner: drums
*Oscar Butterworth: drums
*Linda Ronstadt: vocal
*Emmylou Harris: vocal

Trivia

* The photograph on the album cover was taken with a Game Boy Camera. [http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/ninvid/nin2000.htm]