CONCEIVED as the home of classic mid-'70s track Powderfinger, the ever-mercurial Neil Young shelved the original Chrome Dreams and waited 30-odd years to follow it up. Just because he felt like it. Good thing too as Chrome Dreams II has every right to sit alongside his very finest work.
The record veers from folksy Americana to rust-awakening rock anthems, none finer than the awesome 18-minute manifesto of Ordinary People.
Opening track Beautiful Bluebird would sound twee in lesser hands, but is an enthralling celebration of nature, while Shining Light sees the old geezer tackle a soulful falsetto with true grit, and Dirty Old Man finds him striking the pose far more convincingly than any of his contemporaries. The stuff of legend.
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