After the Gold Rush is the third album by Neil Young, and one of four high-profile albums released by each partner of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; two singles taken from the album, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance I Can Really Love," made it to #33 and #93 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. This article is about the musician. ... After the Gold Rush is a song written by Neil Young from the 1970 album of the same name. ... Image File history File links Neil Young & Crazy Horse-After The Gold Rush This image is the cover of an album or single. ... A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... This article is about the musician. ... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles, however saxophones have been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 90s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Reprise Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group, operated through Warner Bros. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... This article is about the musician. ... David Briggs (February 29, 1944 - November 26, 1995) was an American record producer best known for his work with Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared Dean of American Rock Critics.[1] In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as Xgau. ... This article is about the musician. ... Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) is Neil Youngs second solo album and his first with backing band Crazy Horse. ... Harvest is an album by Neil Young, which was the best-selling album of 1972. ... This article is about the musician. ... Crosby, Stills & Nash, also Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when including occasional fourth member Neil Young, are a folk rock/rock supergroup. ... Déjà Vu is the second album by folk-rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash, and their first as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, released on March 11, 1970. ... Billboard can refer to: Billboard magazine Billboard (advertising) Billboard antenna In 3D computer graphics, to billboard is to rotate an object so that it faces the viewer. ... Only Love Can Break Your Heart is the third track on Neil Youngs album After the Gold Rush. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline for Music. ... “Hot 100” redirects here. ...

Track listing

All songs written by Neil Young except "Oh, Lonesome Me" written by Don Gibson. This article is about the musician. ... Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American country musician. ...

1. "Tell Me Why" – 2:54
2. "After the Gold Rush" – 3:45
3. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" – 3:05
4. "Southern Man" – 5:41
5. "Till the Morning Comes" – 1:17
6. "Oh, Lonesome Me" – 3:47
7. "Don't Let It Bring You Down" – 2:56
8. "Birds" – 2:34
9. "When You Dance I Can Really Love" – 3:44
10. "I Believe in You" – 3:24
11. "Cripple Creek Ferry" – 1:34

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History

Neil Young's third solo album was released during a prolific period of his career, having recorded two solo albums and Déjà Vu as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in less than a year; after being sidelined with a back injury, he would wait until 1972 for his subsequent LP Harvest, which would make Young a household name. Although his work with Buffalo Springfield had shown him experimenting with a variety of musical styles, on Gold Rush Young continued the mix of hard rock with the country and folk-flavored acoustic approaches from CSNY and on 1969's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Déjà Vu is the second album by folk-rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash, and their first as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, released on March 11, 1970. ... Crosby, Stills, & Nash (sometimes known as Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young) is a pioneering folk rock/rock supergroup that formed out of the remnants of three 1960s bands the Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and the Hollies. ... Harvest is an album by Neil Young, which was the best-selling album of 1972. ... Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina and is most famous for the song For What Its Worth. ... Hard Rock redirects here. ... Crosby, Stills & Nash, also Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when including occasional fourth member Neil Young, are a folk rock/rock supergroup. ... Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) is Neil Youngs second solo album and his first with backing band Crazy Horse. ...

In the authoritative Young biography Shakey, it was stated that he was intentionally trying to combine Crazy Horse and CSN on this release, with Crazy Horse appearing alongside Stephen Stills and CSNY bass player Greg Reeves. Initial sessions were conducted with Crazy Horse at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles amid a winter tour that included a well-received engagement with Steve Miller and Miles Davis at the Fillmore East. Due to the deteriorating health of rhythm guitarist Danny Whitten (due to heroin use), the sessions only yielded one track, "I Believe In You". This song, "When You Dance I Can Really Love", and "Oh, Lonesome Me" mark the only appearance of the backing group on After The Gold Rush. For other uses, see Crazy Horse (disambiguation). ... Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young). ... Sunset Sound Recorders is a legendary recording studio in Hollywood, California. ... Steve Miller (born October 5, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American blues and rock and roll guitarist and performer. ... Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, widely considered to be one of the most influential of the 20th century. ... Danny Ray Whitten (1943-1972) was born in Columbus, Georgia on May 8, 1943. ...

Most of the album was recorded at a make-shift basement studio in Young's modest Topanga Canyon home during the spring of 1970 with Greg Reeves, Ralph Molina of Crazy Horse, and burgeoning eighteen year old musical phenom Nils Lofgren of the Washington, DC-based band Grin on piano. In a typical idiosyncratic decision of the singer/songwriter, Lofgren had not played keyboards on a regular basis prior to the sessions. Along with fellow Young stalwart Jack Nitzsche, he would join an augmented Crazy Horse sans Young before enjoying cult success and a stint in Bruce Springsteen's band. This article is about a town in Los Angeles County. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Nils Lofgren is an American rock music singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Nils Lofgren is an American rock music singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. ... Bernard Alfred (Jack) Nitzsche (Chicago, April 22, 1937 – Hollywood, August 25, 2000) was an integral presence in the history of popular music in the 20th century. ... Springsteen redirects here. ...

Critics were not immediately enamored; the original review in Rolling Stone began:

"Neil Young devotees will probably spend the next few weeks trying desperately to convince themselves that After the Gold Rush is good music. But they'll be kidding themselves. For despite the fact that the album contains some potentially first rate material, none of the songs here rise above the uniformly dull surface."

As is typical of Young releases, critical reaction has improved with time, and Gold Rush is now considered a milestone in Young's recording career. Ink Blot magazine's retrospective review summarizes more current critical thinking:

"One of his least stylized efforts, the record gains its strength from not only the rock solid songwriting, but the array of musical personalities that Neil displays. ... The variety and quality of the songs causes After The Gold Rush to play like a greatest hits album, which unbelievably it is not."

Acclaim and Legacy

The album is concidered to be Young's greatest and has appeared on a number of greatest albums lists. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted After the Gold Rush the 89th greatest album of all time. It was ranked 92nd in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2003, Rolling Stone named the album the 71st (his highest rating on this list) greatest album of all time. Pitchfork Media listed it 99th on their 2004 list of the 'Top 100 Albums of the 1970s' ^[1]. In 2006, Time Magazine listed it as one of the 'All-TIME 100 Albums' ^[2]. It was ranked third in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums. Its followup album, Harvest, was named the greatest Canadian album of all time in that book. On Rate Your Music.com, it is the second highest ranked album of 1970, 12th highest of the 70s and 49th of all time. Q is a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, with a circulation of 140,282 and a readership of 731,000. ... This article is about the British television station. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Promotional Book Cover The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ... Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork, is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... Bob Mersereau is a Canadian arts journalist. ... The Top 100 Canadian Albums is a book by Bob Mersereau, published in 2007 by Goose Lane Editions. ... Harvest is an album by Neil Young, which was the best-selling album of 1972. ... Rate Your Music is a metadata database where musical albums, EPs, singles and bootlegs are rated and reviewed by users. ...

After the Gold Rush screenplay

The credits read that "Most of these songs were inspired by the Dean Stockwell-Herb Berman screenplay After the Gold Rush." Young had read the screenplay and asked Stockwell if he could produce the soundtrack, and though the movie came to naught, the album After the Gold Rush was released nonetheless. When asked by Shakey author Jimmy McDonough which songs were inspired by the script, the only tracks Young could recall were "After the Gold Rush" and "Cripple Creek Ferry". Stockwell said of it "I was gonna write a movie that was personal, a Jungian self-discovery of the gnosis...it involved the Kabala (sic), it involved a lot of arcane stuff." (Shakey). Described in Shakey by fellow Topanga resident Shannon Forbes as "...A sort of an end-of-the-world movie...at the end, the hero is standing in the Corral parking lot watching this huge wave come in and this house was surfing along, and as the house comes at him, he turns the knob - and that's the end of the movie." Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning American film and television actor, active for over 60 years. ... Jung redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about traditional Jewish Kabbalah. ... This article is about a town in Los Angeles County. ...

Unfortunately, not much else is known about the screenplay, as it is currently missing.(Shakey) Stockwell would work with Young later in his career, creating the cover for the American Stars 'N Bars album, as well as writing and co-directing Young's film Human Highway. American Stars N Bars (1977) is a rock album by Neil Young, the most popular track being Like A Hurricane. The album was produced by Neil Young and David Briggs with Tim Mulligan except Star Of Bethlehem by Elliot Mazer. ... Human Highway is 1982 movie co-directed by, and starring Neil Young, under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. ...

Personnel

• Neil Young – guitar, piano, harmonica, vibes, vocal
• Nils Lofgren – piano, vocal
• Greg Reeves – bass
• Ralph Molina – drums, vocal
• Danny Whitten – guitar, vocal
• Jack Nitzsche – piano
• Billy Talbot – bass
• Bill Peterson – flugelhorn
• Stephen Stills – vocal

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Production

• Joel Bernstein – photography
• David Briggs – producer
• Gary Burden – art direction
• Kendall Pacios – producer
• Elliot Roberts & Lookout Management – direction
• Neil Young – producer

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Billboard singles charts

• "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" peaked # 33 on Pop Singles in 1970
• "When You Dance I Can Really Love" peaked # 93 on Pop Singles in 1971

References