Prairie Wind

Prairie Wind

Infobox Album | Name = Prairie Wind
Type = Album
Artist = Neil Young


Released = September 27 2005
Recorded = March 2005
Genre = Rock
Length = 52:05
Label = Reprise Records
Producer = Neil Young, Ben Keith
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8zrn28oq05ja link]
* Music Box Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.musicbox-online.com/ny-wind.html link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=neil+young link]
*Music OMH Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.musicomh.com/albums4/neil-young_0905.htm link]
*Pitchfork Media (5.8/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23351-prairie-wind link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/neilyoung/albums/album/7637213/review/7645148/prairie_wind link] | Last album = "Greatest Hits"
(2004)
This album = "Prairie Wind"
(2005)
Next album = "Living with War"
(2006)

"Prairie Wind" is a Neil Young album released in 2005. After recent dalliances with 60s soul music ("Are You Passionate?") and rock opera ("Greendale", which spawned a Young-directed film of the same name), "Prairie Wind" featured an acoustic-based sound reminiscent of his earlier commercially successful albums "Harvest" and "Harvest Moon". The album was in part inspired by the illness and recent death of his father, Canadian sportswriter and novelist Scott Young, and the album is dedicated in part to the elder Young.

Young recorded the album in Nashville before undergoing minimally invasive surgery for an aneurysm in the spring of 2005, and some of the songs on the album appear to be informed by Young confronting his own mortality.

A premiere live performance of "Prairie Wind" was held in 18-19 August 2005 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Here, Young held a two-night concert where songs from the album were performed. These concerts became the subject of a film directed by Jonathan Demme entitled "".

Young debuted the album's closing track, "When God Made Me", at the Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at number 11, on October 15, 2005, with sales of approximately 72,000 copies. It remained on the chart for 27 weeks. It was awarded a certified gold record by the RIAA on January 23, 2006.

This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005.

Track listing

#"The Painter" – 4:36
#"No Wonder" – 5:45
#"Falling Off the Face of the Earth" – 3:35
#"Far From Home" – 3:47
#"It's a Dream" – 6:31
#"Prairie Wind" – 7:34
#"Here for You" – 4:32
#"This Old Guitar" – 5:32
#"He Was the King" – 6:08
#"When God Made Me" – 4:05All songs written and composed by Neil Young and ©2005 Silver Fiddle Music (ASCAP)


=Musical PersonnelFact|date=June 2008=

*Neil Young - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals
*Ben Keith - Dobro, pedal steel, slide guitar
*Spooner Oldham - piano, Hammond B3 organ, Wurlitzer electric piano
*Rick Rosas - bass
*Karl Himmel - drums, percussion
*Chad Cromwell - drums, percussion
*Grant Boatwright - acoustic guitar, backing vocals
*Clinton Gregory - fiddle on "No Wonder"
*Wayne Jackson - horns
*Thomas McGinley - horns
*Emmylou Harris - special guest vocalist
*Pegi Young - backing vocals
*Diana Dewitt - backing vocals
*Anthony Crawford - backing vocals
*Gary Pigg - backing vocals
*Curtis Wright - backing vocals
*Chuck Cochran - string arranger
*Fisk University Jubilee Choir, directed by Paul Kwami


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