After the Gold Rush
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After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. Released in August 1970 on Reprise Records, it was one of the four high-profile albums released by each member of folk rock collective Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu. Gold Rush consisted mainly of country folk music, along with the rocking "Southern Man". Songs were inspired by the Dean Stockwell-Herb Berman screenplay After the Gold Rush.
After 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. Critics were not initially impressed with the album, though it has since been considered a masterpiece, and appears on a number of greatest albums lists.
Track listing
All songs written by Neil Young except when noted
- Side one
- "Tell Me Why" – 2:54
- "After the Gold Rush" – 3:45
- "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" – 3:05
- "Southern Man" – 5:31
- "Till the Morning Comes" – 1:17
- Side two
- "Oh Lonesome Me" (Don Gibson) – 3:47
- "Don't Let It Bring You Down" – 2:56
- "Birds" – 2:34
- "When You Dance I Can Really Love" – 4:05
- "I Believe in You" – 3:24
- "Cripple Creek Ferry" – 1:34
Personnel
- Neil Young — guitar, piano, harmonica, vibes, lead vocals
- Danny Whitten — guitar, vocals
- Nils Lofgren — guitar, piano, vocals
- Jack Nitzsche — piano
- Billy Talbot — bass
- Greg Reeves — bass
- Ralph Molina — drums, vocals
- Stephen Stills — vocals
- Bill Peterson — flugelhorn