Английская Википедия:A Letter Home
Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox album A Letter Home is the 33rd studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young. It was released on April 19, 2014, on Record Store Day by Third Man Records. The album was produced by Young in collaboration with Jack White of The White Stripes.
The album was recorded in a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl recording booth at Jack White's Third Man Records recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Of this method, White said, "we were obfuscating beauty on purpose to get to a different place, a different mood."[1] In a May 2014 interview with David Fricke for Rolling Stone, Young described working with White: "Jack is an original. I've watched originals my whole life. I've absorbed from originals, taken that and turned it into me. That's the folk process. Jack does that to some degree. He also reminds me of Charlie Chaplin, because of his sympathetic nature, his curious choices. A lot of soul comes through everything he does. It's sparkling in a new way. And it comes by connecting new threads."[2]
The opening spoken-word track, and other spoken lines throughout the album, were addressed to Edna "Rassy" Young, Neil's mother who died in 1990.[3][4]
A message on Young's website described the album as "an unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro-mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever".[5][6]
The entire album consists of covers of classic songs by artists Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Gordon Lightfoot and others. Young explains to David Fricke: "They were songs I listened to as I formulated what to do with my life."[7]
Reception
Шаблон:Expand section Шаблон:Music ratings The A.V. Club considers A Letter Home one of the best albums of the first half of 2014, calling it the "most surprising record by a guy who's built his career on surprising you".[8]
Awards
Album cover artist Gary Burden was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package.[9]
Track listing
Bonus tracks from box set singles: Шаблон:Track listing
Personnel
- Neil Young - vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
- Jack White - vocals, piano on "On the Road Again"; vocals, guitar on "I Wonder If I Care as Much"
Box set
The box set includes:
- 1 standard 12" LP pressed on 180-gram black vinyl
- 1 "direct feed from the booth" audiophile 12" LP pressed on 180-gram black vinyl
- Seven 6" vinyl 33 RPM discs pressed on clear vinyl
- 1 standard CD
- 1 standard DVD with footage from the recording
- 1 32-page, 12" x 12" book
- Download card to redeem the digital album of the "direct feed from the booth" audiophile version
The 7th 6" disc of this set features a version of Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" backed with an alternate take/arrangement of "Crazy"
Audio production
- Reproduced by: Jack White & Neil Young
- Recorded at: Third Man Records, Nashville, TN
- Electro-mechanically engineered by: Joshua V. Smith & Kevin Carrico
- Recorded by: Joshua V. Smith
- Assisted by: Mindy Watts
- Recorded to acetate by: George Ingram
- Mastered by: Bob Ludwig for Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME
DVD production
- Directed by: Bernard Shakey
- Produced by: Will Mitchell
- Executive Producer: Elliot Rabinowitz
- Post Production for Shakey Pictures at Upstream Multimedia
- Edited by: Benjamin Johnson
- Assistant Editor: Hannah Choe
- Motion Graphics: Kris Kunz, Atticus Culver-Rease
- DVD Menu Art Direction: Toshi Onuki
- DVD Menu Sound Design: Will Mitchell
- Hand lettering “A Letter Home”: Julian Baker
- DVD Authoring: DVS Intelestream
- Clearances: Marcy Gensic
Documentary Film Crew
- Director of Photography: Benjamin Johnson
- Sound: Will Mitchell
Artwork
- Art Direction & Design: Gary Burden & Jenice Heo for R. Twerk & Co
- Photo Credits: Front Cover-Will Mitchell, Back Cover- Jo McCaughey
Charts
Weekly charts
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| Italian Albums (FIMI)[10] | 41 |
| Irish Albums (IRMA)[11] | 8 |
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Year-end charts
| Chart (2014) | Position |
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| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[12] | 186 |
Personnel
- Neil Young – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
- Jack White – vocals and guitar on "On the Road Again", vocals and piano on "I Wonder If I Care as Much"
References
- ↑ Tingen, Paul (October 2014). "Inside Track: Jack White", Sound on Sound. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
- ↑ Neil Young. By: Fricke, David, Rolling Stone, 0035791X, 5/22/2014, Issue 1209
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- ↑ Neil Young. By: Fricke, David, Rolling Stone, 0035791X, 5/22/2014, Issue 1209
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