Neil Young and Crazy Horse Blow Through Voodoo Fest, With a Few Tricks
City Life, Louisiana/GulfCoast
October 27th, 2012
Neil Young and Crazy Horse didn't bring their Old Man or Heart of Gold to Voodoo Fest's final Friday set. Instead, the center of the quartet's two-hour tour was embedded between flurries of guitar wail in one of the band's latest songs, “Walk Like a Giant.” “We saw the lights and spiritual shining/Getting closer every minute/Then we skipped the rails, and we started to fail/And we folded you, and it’s not enough,” Young sang. “Think about how close we came.” In those words, delivered as Young's face crinkled into a world-weary grimace, the man that wrote “Ohio” and had a hand in “For What It's Worth” comes to terms with all the promises that his generation never kept.
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