Silver & Gold

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Silver & Gold
Studio album by Neil Young
Released	April 25, 2000
Recorded	Aug. 26, 1997-May 28, 1999
Genre	Rock
Length	39:10
Label	Reprise Records
Producer	Neil Young, Ben Keith
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (C+) link
Neil Young chronology
Year of the Horse (1997) Silver & Gold (2000) Road Rock Vol. 1 (2000)

Silver & Gold is an album by Neil Young, released in 2000. Many of these songs were written as far back as 1976 (there is a bootleg of a Neil Young/Crazy Horse performance from 1976 which features "Razor Love"; for the Freedom sessions in 1988-89, Young attempted to record the song "Silver & Gold", which by his own estimation, he had been trying to get "the take" for around ten years at that point.)

Musically, the album is a return to the previous country/roots tinged material of earlier records like Harvest and Comes A Time; however, the lyrics suggest an artist becoming more in touch with his familial leanings, growing older, and becoming more complete as a person. Young looks back over his life and career with a warm, nostalgic view, even going so far as to state that he wouldn't mind a Buffalo Springfield reunion - "Like to see those guys again/And give it a shot" he sings wistfully in the song "Buffalo Springfield Again." The tone of the album is quiet and peaceful.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Good to See You" – 2:49
2. "Silver & Gold" – 3:16
3. "Daddy Went Walkin'" – 4:01
4. "Buffalo Springfield Again" – 3:23
5. "The Great Divide" – 4:34
6. "Horseshoe Man" – 4:00
7. "Red Sun" – 2:48
8. "Distant Camera" – 4:07
9. "Razor Love" – 6:31
10. "Without Rings" – 3:41

All songs composed by Neil Young.

[edit] Personnel

• Neil Young: guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal
• Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar, vocal
• Spooner Oldham: piano, organ
• Donald "Duck" Dunn: bass
• Jim Keltner: drums
• Oscar Butterworth: drums
• Linda Ronstadt: vocal
• Emmylou Harris: vocal

[edit] Trivia

• The photograph on the album cover was taken with a Game Boy Camera.[1]

v • d • e Neil Young Crazy Horse • The Stray Gators Discography Studio albums: Neil Young • Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere • After the Gold Rush • Harvest • On the Beach • Tonight's the Night • Zuma • American Stars 'N Bars • Comes a Time • Rust Never Sleeps • Hawks & Doves • Re-ac-tor • Trans • Everybody's Rockin' • Old Ways • Landing on Water • Life • This Note's for You • Freedom • Ragged Glory • Harvest Moon • Sleeps with Angels • Mirror Ball • Broken Arrow • Silver & Gold • Are You Passionate? • Greendale • Prairie Wind • Living with War • Living with War: In the Beginning • Chrome Dreams II EPs: Eldorado Live albums: Time Fades Away • Live Rust • Weld • Arc • Unplugged • Year of the Horse • Road Rock Vol. 1 Soundtracks: Journey Through the Past • Where the Buffalo Roam • Philadelphia • Dead Man Compilations: Decade • Lucky Thirteen • Greatest Hits Archive Series: Live at the Fillmore East • Live at Massey Hall 1971 • The Archives Vol.01 1963-1972 Unreleased albums: Homegrown • Human Highway • Chrome Dreams Also see Buffalo Springfield • Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) • The Stills-Young Band