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Originally Posted by chabby
Joh Backlund - If you want to hear Neil at his best get his studio perfect "Comes a Time " album. His singing on that album is absolutely stellar for anyobdy. His voice is perfect on every song. The songs are all perfectly done.
That LP will show you his perfectionist side. Perfectly on key he is as well as in the best voice shape of his life. He plays all acoustic through out the whole LP with back up singing all around by the late, great Nicollette Larson.
There is one song on which he plays piano even.
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I'll have to listen to it, thanks.
I didn't want to give the idea that I hold musical perfection in the performance and execution of a song to be the criteria that I might judge any artist by, and whiz-bang virtuosity on the guitar is also not at all required for me to thoroughly enjoy a song, and can in fact over-encumber a powerful and thoughtfull piece with distracting musical embellishment. As often as not, simple music is as pleasurable, if not moreso than technically complicated music, and does not lack anything as a result it's clear purity. One can always point to Bob Dylan or John Prine as a prime examples of this thought.....and perhaps Neil Young as well.