Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968
This album is just too good. Trying to write about it has been nearly impossible, because it's amazing and obviously I can't say that more than the two times already. It is an unreleased solo acoustic show, has hilarious side stories from Young's past, and gives the best mental image of the second biggest musical stoner the world has known. (Well, Bob Marley, right?)
After telling off Buffalo Springfield in 1968, Neil Young struck out solo and started to make his own legend. Everyone starts somewhere though, and he did it in Ann Arbor by telling the crowd how much he wished he had a comb because his hair was too long. What a hippy. While the music is fantastic, the part that makes this record shine over the other recent archive releases is the personal feeling. It's like sitting with the man himself, just listening to him play his songs and tell stories like your grandpa would do. If only I could sit on his lap too.
"Every once in a while this girl that I knew in Yorkville village in Toronto, would lay one of these little red pills on me, now don't tell anybody about this okay?" Yeah Neil, yeah.
Release: Album
To Cure: Hypertension
Keywords: Neil Young, Funny, Folk
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