1 Tell Me Why - 2:59 2 After the Gold Rush - 3:46 3 Only Love Can Break Your Heart - 3:09 4 Southern Man - 5:31 5 Till the Morning Comes - 1:27 6 Oh, Lonesome Me - 3:50 7 Don't Let It Bring You Down - 2:57 8 Birds - 2:33 9 When You Dance You Can Really Love - 3:45 10 I Believe in You - 3:27 11 Cripple Creek Ferry - 1:33
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In the 15 months between the release of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush, Neil Young issued a series of recordings in different styles that could have prepared his listeners for the differences between the two LPs. His two compositions on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album Déjà Vu, 'Helpless' and 'Country Girl,' returned him to the folk and country styles he had pursued before delving into the hard rock of Everybody Knows; two other singles, 'Sugar Mountain' and 'Oh, Lonesome Me,' also emphasized those roots. But 'Ohio,' a CSNY single, rocked as hard as anything on the second album. After the Gold Rush was recorded with the aid of Nils Lofgren, a 17-year-old unknown whose piano was a major instrument, turning one of the few real rockers, 'Southern Man' (which had unsparing protest lyrics typical of Phil Ochs), into a more stately effort than anything on the previous album and giving a classic tone to the title track, a mystical ballad that featured some of Young's most imaginative lyrics and became one of his most memorable songs. But much of After the Gold Rush consisted of country-folk love songs, which consolidated the audience Young had earned through his tours and recordings with CSNY; its dark yet hopeful tone matched the tenor of the times in 1970, making it one of the definitive singer/songwriter albums, and it has remained among Young's major achievements
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