NORAH JONES TELL ME WHY TRIBUTE TO NEIL YOUNG!!!! ![]() The introduction to “A Man Needs a Maid” is informative: It came about while he was confined to bed after injuring his back his pals would come over, wreck the house and then leave – and he wasn’t capable of cleaning up.NORAH JONES TELL ME WHY TRIBUTE TO NEIL YOUNG Were the songs originally meant to be a medley? (It’s a question I’ve pondered since first hearing them linked as one.) Or did he play them back to back like that for expediency’s sake? Either/or, within a few days he split them at the seams and, in early February, recorded the stand-alone “Heart of Gold” in a Nashville studio – “A Man Needs a Maid” wouldn’t be laid down until March, following Neil’s appearance at Royal Festival Hall in London. In any event, the piano medley of “A Man Needs a Maid” (with a slightly different lyric) and “Heart of Gold” is especially sublime. One odd result of the edits, however, is this: The track list leans even heavier on Harvest material than the original concert. Also, a live album need not present a show in its entirety, just stand on its own – which Young Shakespeare certainly does. Why the decision to excise some songs and re-order the remainder, who knows? That said, I have no complaints. (The late show, for those curious, swapped out “Sugar Mountain” for “There’s a World,” but was otherwise the same.) On the Way Home/Tell Me Why/Old Man/Journey Through the Past/Cowgirl in the Sand/Love in Mind/A Man Needs a Maid-Heart of Gold/Don’t Let It Bring You Down/Sugar Mountain/Helpless/The Needle and the Damage Done/Ohio/See the Sky About to Rain/Down by the River/Dance, Dance, Dance ![]() If we assume the recording is from the early show, the set – according to Sugar Mountain, at least – is thus: It’s similar to the Live at Massey Hall 1971 set released in 2007, as that concert took place three days earlier and Neil didn’t upend his set list in between, but unlike Massey Hall this isn’t the entire concert. Young Shakespeare, it should be noted, hails from Neil’s appearance at the American Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford, Conn., on January 22nd, where he played both an early and late show the inclusion of “Sugar Mountain” suggests the recording comes from the early, as it wasn’t played in the late, though the album could well feature songs from both.
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