Neil Young Harvest

from the Harvest 1972. Reprise Records Neil Young s most popular album, Harvest benefited from the delay in its release (it took 18 months to complete due to Young s back injury), which whetted his audience s appetite, the disintegration of Crosby, Stills, Nash Young (Young s three erstwhile partners sang on the album, along with Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor), and most of all, a hit single. Heart of Gold, released a month before Harvest, was already in the Top 40 when the LP hit the stores, and it soon topped the charts. It s fair to say, too, that Young simply was allpervasive by this time: Heart of Gold was succeeded at number one by A Horse with No Name by America, which was a Young soundalike record. But successful as Harvest was (and it was the bestselling album of 1972), it has suffered critically from reviewers who see it as an uneven album on which Young repeats himself. Certainly, Harvest employs a number of jarringly d