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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox album Colorado is the 39th studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young (and his first studio album with Crazy Horse since 2012), released on October 25, 2019, by Reprise Records. The album was preceded by the singles "Milky Way" (released on August 30, 2019) and "Rainbow of Colors" (released on September 12, 2019) and is dedicated to Elliot Roberts, Young's manager since 1967, who died aged 76 on June 21, 2019. It was also the first album to feature Nils Lofgren as a member of Crazy Horse since 1971.

Background

Colorado is Young's first album with Crazy Horse since 2012's Psychedelic Pill. After their 2014 tour of Europe, Guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro retired from the group due to arthritis in both hands. The band went on hiatus and Young recorded three albums with Lukas and Micah Nelson's Promise of the Real. For their first shows together in 2018 without Sampedro, and for Colorado, Young enlisted longtime collaborator Nils Lofgren to play guitar.

Young recorded the album near Telluride, Colorado, his new home after moving to be with his wife Daryl Hannah in the wake of losing a second Malibu home to fire.

Writing

Like his last several albums, many of the lyrics are inspired by social issues. In a 2021 post to his website, Young describes "Rainbow of Colors" as "a song about the diversity of America and how strong it remains even under attacks from the harbors of White Supremacy. White Supremacy, now in its early death throes here in America, is the root cause of violence around the country, with the Dept of Homeland Security calling it the largest threat to peace inside the USA today. In a 2019 post, Young explains the urgency for unity as the world seeks to address its social and environmental challenges: Шаблон:Blockquote

According to a 2019 post to his website, "Help Me Lose My Mind" is about overcoming post-traumatic stress disorder.

"Green Is Blue" addresses climate change. Young explains to NPR: "Mostly, I would like a lot of people to see what's going on on the planet that is so obvious to me. I don't - I just don't know why people don't get it. Or if they do get it, then why don't they get with it?"

Recording

The album was recorded at Studio in the Clouds near Telluride, Colorado over an 11 day stretch in April, 2019. Young and the group employed oxygen to help combat the 9200 foot elevation at the studio during recording. Young recalls to Conan O'Brien: Шаблон:Blockquote

Young also produced a documentary of the sessions, entitled "Mountaintop".

Three of the songs on the album were recorded live the previous winter in Minneapolis and Winnipeg, and then overdubbed during the sessions. Young explains, "We started off doing something that we'd never done before, just to see what would happen. Every time you do a song, it's an opportunity to define it and what it means and how it feels. So if you feel it while you're doing the song [live], you're fucked, you've already done the song. It's only going to happen once like that, when you get that feeling. And so I had that feeling on a couple of the songs, that I'd done the song. I didn't want to do it again."

Critical reception

Colorado received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 79, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 19 reviews.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Neil Young. Шаблон:Track listing

B-sides

Song	Single
"Truth Kills"	"Rainbow of Colors" (live)

Personnel

• Neil Young – lead vocals, guitar, acoustic piano, vibes, harmonica, glass harmonica
• Nils Lofgren – guitar, piano, pump organ, taps, vocals
• Billy Talbot – bass, vocals
• Ralph Molina – drums, vocals

Charts

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Chart (2019)	Peak position
Australian Digital Albums (ARIA)	19