Rust Never Sleeps is a live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, featuring his backing band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records. Read more on Last.fm.
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Rust Never Sleeps is a live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, featuring his backing band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records. Read more on Last.fm.
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer, guitarist, songwriter, and social activist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation, particularly as Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Young was born in Toronto, but he moved to the family home of Winnipeg as a child, which is where his music career began. Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. Read more on Last.fm
Neil Young is one of the great pioneers in limited guitar ability. I mean that with complete respect and praise. Young’s solos were wonderful, jagged dirges of distorted noise, avalanches of sonic reverb bleeding into the air. His melodies were (and are) some of the most straightforward of all time, carrying with them a strong sense of purpose.
The Rust Never Sleeps is the greatest live record ever recorded, a snapshot of Neil and the ever reliable Crazyhorse spellbinding the audience with a lonesome, aching acoustic set and then pummeling them with a blast of electric fury in the second half (the birth of grunge?) Rust is a masterwork, a live album with the studio audience dubbed out. It’s purity will rock you.