Genre: Album
Grade: A-
Notable People: Neil Young and The Promise of the Real
Title: The Visitor
Review: “Earth is like a church without a preacher”…..chant this 30 times…so ends the most recent Neil Young epiphany. An album that starts with “Already Great” ( as in, we don’t need to “make America great again”)- and includes his ode to the “Liar in Chief”. Fifty years on ,and Neil is still making statements about the Earth, love and when bad got good. He seems to have found his new Crazy Horse in the form of this band which features two of Willie Nelson’s boys and look like they could be his grand kids. But, that has never deterred Neil. Widely acknowledged as the grandfather of grunge and punk….he remains a force in both angry political statements and sweeter than hell love songs. This one e combines both. If you listen to the first two bars of the first song, you know it’s Neil- is there a more distinctive sound in modern music? This is not his best album, but even Monet’s bad water lilies were worth studying. Long live the grunge master.