Condition:
NEIL YOUNG - HAWKS & DOVES
WARNER BROTHERS CAT# HS 2297
1980 Canada pressing
Has inner lyric sleeve
Record VG++ with light scuffs only ( Listen )
Here are the songs:
LITTLE WING
THE OLD HOMESTEAD
LOST IN SPACE
CAPTAIN KENNEDY
STAYIN’ POWER
COASTLINE
UNION MAN
COMIN’ APART AT EVERY NAIL
HAWKS & DOVES
Something was in the air and Neil Young new it!
Neil had always tried to keep politics out of his music, except for when Presidents needed a little reminder that besides being Canadian, Neil young is also an American (“Ohio”). Ronald Reagan was most definitely a Hawk and Jimmy Carter was a Dove. It was time for Neil to make a statement about the state of his government!
“Following the triumph of Rust Never Sleeps, Hawks & Doves benefited from the enormous critical goodwill Neil Young had amassed, though fans and critics nevertheless were baffled by its set of obscure acoustic and country-tinged songs. The seven-plus-minute "The Old Homestead" (copyright 1974) was interpreted by some as an allegory for Young's relationship to CSNY, perhaps because that was the only way to make any sense of the most mysterious Young lyric since "The Last Trip to Tulsa." In retrospect, now that it's known Young was distracted by domestic medical concerns while working on the album, its theme of perseverance in the face of adversity, both in a personal context of family commitment ("Stayin' Power," "Coastline"), and in a national context of hard work and patriotism ("Union Man," "Comin' Apart at Every Nail," "Hawks & Doves") seems more apparent, as does the sense that Young may have been trying to make an album of diverse personal statements.”
No Doubt about it, one of the things I like about Neil is that every time the critics label his music, he turns around and surprises them by changing sounds and styles…I call it “chameleon mode”. The man has far distanced himself from Folk, from Rock and everything in between.
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