Rust Never Sleeps

by Crazy Horse, Neil Young, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Overview

Rust Never Sleeps, its aphoristic title drawn from an intended advertising slogan, was an album of new songs, some of them recorded on Neil Young's 1978 concert tour. His strongest collection since Tonight's the Night, its obvious antecedent was Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, and, as Dylan did, Young divided his record into acoustic and electric sides while filling his songs with wildly imaginative imagery. The leadoff track, "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (repeated in an electric version at album's end as "Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black]" with slightly altered lyrics), is the most concise and knowing description of the entertainment industry ever written; it was followed by "Thrasher," which describes Young's parallel artistic quest in an extended metaphor that also reflected the album's overall theme -- the inevitability of deterioration and the challenge of overcoming it. Young then spent the rest of the album demonstrating that his chief weapons against rusting were his imagination and his daring, creating an archetypal album that encapsulated his many styles on a single disc with great songs -- in particular the remarkable "Powderfinger" -- unlike any he had written before. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	08/18/2017
Label:	Reprise / Warner Music
UPC:	0093624917571
Rank:	21300

Tracks

1. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
2. Thrasher
3. Ride y Llama
4. Pocahontas
5. Sail Away
6. Powderfinger
7. Welfare Mothers
8. Sedan Delivery
9. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Neil Young   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica,Guitar (Electric)
Crazy Horse   Primary Artist
Neil Young & Crazy Horse   Primary Artist
Nicolette Larson   Guest Artist,Vocals
Billy Talbot   Bass,Vocals
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro   Guitar,Strings
Ralph Molina   Drums,Vocals
Nils Lofgren   Vocals
Danny Whitten   Guitar
Karl Himmel   Drums
Joe Osborn   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Carl Himmel   Drums
Frank Sampedro   Guitar (Electric)

Technical Credits

Crazy Horse   Performer
Jeff Blackburn   Composer
Neil Young   Composer,Lyricist,Producer
Nicolette Larson   Performer
Tim Mulligan   Producer
David Briggs   Producer
Joe Osborn   Performer
Neil Young & Crazy Horse   Performer
Carl Himmel   Performer
Dave Hewitt   Recording