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''After the Gold Rush'' is the third studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. Released in September 1970 on Reprise Records, it is one of four high-profile albums released by each member of folk rock collective Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album ''Déjà Vu''. ''Gold Rush'' consists mainly of country folk music, along with the rocking "Southern Man", inspired by the Dean Stockwell-Herb Bermann screenplay ''After the Gold Rush''. ''After the Gold Rush'' peaked at number eight on the ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums chart; the two singles taken from the album, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance I Can Really Love", made it to number 33 and number 93 respectively on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Despite a mixed initial reaction, it has since appeared on a number of "greatest albums" lists. == Production == Initial sessions were conducted with backing band Crazy Horse at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles amid a short winter 1970 tour that included a well-received engagement with Steve Miller and Miles Davis at the Fillmore East. Despite the deteriorating health of rhythm guitarist Danny Whitten, the sessions yielded a smattering of released tracks, including "I Believe In You," "Oh, Lonesome Me," "Birds" (issued as a B-side) and "When You Dance I Can Really Love". Most of the album was recorded at a makeshift basement studio in Young's Topanga Canyon home during the spring with Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young bassist Greg Reeves, drummer Ralph Molina of Crazy Horse, and burgeoning eighteen-year-old musical prodigy Nils Lofgren of the Washington, DC-based band Grin on piano. The incorporation of Lofgren was a characteristically idiosyncratic decision by Young, as he had not played keyboards on a regular basis prior to the sessions. Along with fellow Young stalwart Jack Nitzsche, he would join an augmented Crazy Horse sans Young before enjoying his own group and solo cult success alternating with a 25-year membership in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The Young biography ''Shakey''〔McDonough, Jimmy. Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography. New York: Random House Inc., 2002〕 claims Young was intentionally trying to combine Crazy Horse and CSNY on this release, with members of the former band appearing alongside Stephen Stills (who contributed backing vocals to "Only Love Can Break Your Heart") and Reeves. The cover art is a solarized image of Young, walking past New York University School of Law, passing an old woman. The picture was taken by photographer Joel Bernstein and was reportedly out of focus. It was because of this he decided to mask the blurred face by solarizing the image.〔http://www.popspotsnyc.com/afterthegoldrush/〕 The photo is cropped, the original image includes Young's friend and occasional collaborator Graham Nash of CSNY. 〔https://alancook.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/after-the-gold-rush-outtake.jpg〕 Songs on the album were inspired by the Dean Stockwell-Herb Bermann screenplay for the unmade film ''After the Gold Rush''. Young had read the screenplay and asked Stockwell if he could produce the soundtrack. Tracks that Young recalls as being written specifically for the film are "After the Gold Rush" and "Cripple Creek Ferry." The script has since been lost, though has been described as "sort of an end-of-the-world movie." Stockwell said of it, "I was gonna write a movie that was personal, a Jungian self-discovery of the gnosis... it involved the Kabala ''(sic)'', it involved a lot of arcane stuff."〔 According to the ''Neil Young Archives'', ''After the Gold Rush'' was released on September 19, 1970. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「After the Gold Rush」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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