NEIL YOUNG TONIGHTS THE NIGHT
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Tonight's the Night is the eighth album by Neil Young, released in 1975 on Reprise Records, catalogue MS 2221. It was recorded in 1973, its release delayed for two years
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT is dedicated to Young's guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry, who died shortly before this recording was made, and the title cut details that very subject, but the darker moments here are leavened by a generous share of self-parodic humor and general Neil Young loopiness.
Sad, tender ballads like "Borrowed Tune," (itself not without humor) rub shoulders with hearty rockers like "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown." Several tunes find Young and Crazy Horse exploring hard-edged country-rock with their collective tongue stuck firmly in the cheek, as on "Roll Another Number." Young's voice reels sadistically and purposefully out of tune, cutting through the arrangements like strategically placed barbed-wire Sardonic, taunting, mercilessly self-deprecating, often downright funny, TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT is no gloomfest, but a multi-faceted, full-bodied classic.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, vibraphone); Danny Whitten (vocals, guitar); Ralph Molina (vocals, drums); Billy Talbot (bass).
Additional personnel: Nils Lofgren (vocals, guitar, piano); Ben Keith (vocals, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar); Jack Nitzsche (piano); Tim Drummond (bass); Kenny Buttrey (drums).
1.Tonight's the Night
2.Speakin' Out
3.World on a String
4.Borrowed Tune
5.Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown
6.Mellow My Mind
7.Roll Another Number (For the Road)
8.Albuquerque
9.New Mama
10.Lookout Joe
11.Tired Eyes
12.Tonight's the Night (Part II)
