An outtake version of "Birds" recorded at the initial Sunset Sound sessions has now been added to the album on the Neil Young Archives website, as have two versions of the song "Wonderin'". One month later, on October 24, the lead single "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Īccording to the Neil Young Archives, After the Gold Rush was released on September 19, 1970. it involved the Kabala, it involved a lot of arcane stuff." Graham Nash has claimed that "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" was written for him in the aftermath of his breakup with Joni Mitchell.
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The script has since been lost, though it 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 . Tracks that Young recalls as being written specifically for the film are "After the Gold Rush" and "Cripple Creek Ferry". Young had read the screenplay and asked Stockwell if he could produce the soundtrack.
Songs on the album were inspired by the Dean Stockwell- Herb Bermann screenplay for the unmade film After the Gold Rush. The photo is cropped the original image included Young's friend and CSNY bandmate Graham Nash. It was because of this he decided to mask the blurred face by solarizing the image. The picture was taken by photographer Joel Bernstein and was reportedly out of focus. The cover art is a solarized image of Young passing an old woman at the New York University School of Law campus in the Greenwich Village district of New York City. Biographer Jimmy McDonough has asserted that 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. Along with Jack Nitzsche, Lofgren would join an augmented Crazy Horse sans Young before enjoying success with his own group as well as solo cult success and membership in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The incorporation of Lofgren was a characteristically idiosyncratic decision by Young, as Lofgren had not played keyboards on a regular basis prior to the sessions. Įxcept for the track "Birds", recorded on June 30, 1970, at Sound City Studios, the remainder of the album was recorded at various sessions in a makeshift basement studio ("Redwood Studios") in Young's Topanga Canyon home during March and April 1970 with CSNY bassist Greg Reeves, Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina and burgeoning eighteen-year-old musical prodigy Nils Lofgren of the Washington, D.C.-based band Grin on piano. Although progress was hampered by the deteriorating health of rhythm guitarist Danny Whitten, the sessions yielded two released tracks, " I Believe In You" and "Oh, Lonesome Me". Initial sessions were conducted with backing band Crazy Horse at Sunset Sound Studios in August 1969, shortly before Young embarked on a tour of the US with Crosby Stills Nash & Young that would include their now-famous appearance at Woodstock. Production Īfter the Gold Rush is one of four high-profile albums (all charting within the top fifteen) released by each of the members of folk rock collective Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu, along with Stephen Stills ( Stephen Stills, November 1970), If I Could Only Remember My Name ( David Crosby, February 1971) and Songs for Beginners ( Graham Nash, May 1971).
In 2014, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Despite a mixed initial reaction, the album has since appeared on a number of greatest albums of all time lists. The material was inspired by the unproduced Dean Stockwell- Herb Bermann screenplay After the Gold Rush.Īfter 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. Young's album consists mainly of country folk music along with several rock tracks, including " Southern Man". It is one of four high-profile solo albums released by the members of folk rock group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.
After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by the Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in September 1970 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6383.
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