Neil Young Are You Passionate

Neil Young Are You Passionate
If you found yourself swooning over the folky love songs on 2000’s Silver & Gold , you may fall even harder for 2002’s Are you Passionate? . The tunes here are just as memorable and amorous, but this time Neil landed the seminal Stax Records house band Booker T. & The MG’s as his backing ensemble, which accounts for the warm and familiar grooves that abound. Where Silver & Gold would well accompany a romantic walk in the California countryside, Are you Passionate? sounds meant for hot southern nights on a porch swing. Neil’s trusty Les Paul blends amazingly well with the legendary Memphis band on those classic soul rhythms — right out of the gate, the opening “You’re My Girl” plays as timeless as “Green Onions,” though the riff is a lax take on Otis Redding’s “I Can’t Turn You Loose.” The sludgy stomp that makes “Let’s Roll” was inspired by the last words of Todd Beamer — the passenger of Flight 93 who overtook the terrorists on 9/11. But this album has already aged far better than Neil’s more politically active tunes born shortly after the George W. Bush occupation of Iraq.
℗ 2002 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.
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Thirty-five years after writing “Mr. Soul,” Neil Young took that moniker at face value by recruiting Booker T. & The M.G.’s for a warm, romantic set steeped in ‘60s-Stax vibes. The knowing Temptations tribute that opens “You’re My Girl” telegraphs the album’s throwback mission in no uncertain terms, and even songs powered by Neil’s grungy guitar tone, like “Mr. Disappointment,” emit a churchly glow. However, on “Let’s Roll,” a Southern-boogie groove sets up a gripping narrative ripped straight from the 9/11 headlines.
℗ 2002 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.
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Young's tours with Booker T. & The MGs finally resulted in a studio album in 2002. Are You Passionate? blends the slow burning soul power of Booker T. and company with the guitar pyrotechnics of Young. The music has a subtle energy to it, nothing really rises above a pleasant listening level. However, the two big tracks from the record (one with Crazy Horse,… Read More

American Trad Rock Southern Rock
February 8, 2001 - December 5, 2001

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Neil Young had been playing with Booker T. & the MG's since the mid-'90s, touring heavily with the Stax house band, but the soul grooves on 2002's Are You Passionate?, the first album he cut with the group as a backing band, still come as a surprise. It could be because that even when he assembled the Bluenotes for the proto-neo-swing This Note's for You , he never tried to be as warm, seductive, and romantic as he does here. That's right, the title is no joke -- this is a romantic album, grounded with tight Southern soul rhythms and dressed in Young's signature fuzz-tone Les Paul. No matter the topic of the song, the essential sound is the same: a lazy soul groove, built on what Booker T. & the MG's did in the late '60s, vamping over Neil's three chords as he croons, usually in a falsetto but sometimes in a gruff lower register, while kicking out a variation of "I Can't Turn You Loose" (most notably heard on the opener, "You're My Girl," but rearing its head elsewhere). This is even true of "Let's Roll," a song inspired by the final words of Todd Beamer, one of the passengers on Flight 93 who helped overtake terrorists intent on flying a plane into Washington D.C.; though it's one of the first major post-9/11 songs, written by an artist notorious for his support of Reagan, it is neither reactionary nor all that moving -- mostly, it just sounds like another mid-tempo groover on an album filled with them. And that's the main problem with the record -- though it reads well on paper and is certainly more ambitious than any Neil Young record in years, the songs aren't distinctive or developed, and apart from the rather muscular, Crazy Horse -backed "Goin' Home," they're all delivered in the same fashion and all blend together. Instead of sounding like a refreshing change of pace, it's a muddled, aimless affair from an artist who's had too many middling efforts over the last decade.

Neil Young

feat: Crazy Horse

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