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- Summary: The EP features acoustic songs recorded at his home during the COVID-19 pandemic for singer-songwriter's online concert series The Fireside Sessions.
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- Record Label: Reprise
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Country-Folk, Country-Rock
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Sep 23, 2020The seven songs that make up The Times are stark and haunting.
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Sep 23, 2020Alongside stripped-back, warm and hazy versions of the always powerful ‘Ohio’, ‘Alabama’ and ‘Southern Man’, Young’s new take on 1977’s ‘Campaigner’ hits especially hard.
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Sep 23, 2020The Times feels genuine and unforced—an organic expression of whatever he was feeling at the time, in all its weirdness and contradiction. In other words, it’s prime Neil Young.
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Sep 23, 2020Fittingly, it feels almost more nostalgic than modern. Young's voice quivers slightly and by supporting himself with just a guitar, he seems slightly fragile, a quality that gives these simple, straightforward covers a subtle new dimension.