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| 4 by Rolling Stone |
For many years "Sugar Mountain" was a coveted non-LP B side — a Neil Young ballad about childhood's end written before he was out of his teens and taped during this solo engagement s... |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
By investing a now-classic catalog with immediacy, freshness and a delicate, humbling charm, Sugar Mountain not only stands as the best argument for the Archives series and illumination it could provide, but as a classic live record in its own right. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
His meandering monologues contrast with the top-notch if uniformly pensive songs. |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
The production on Sugar Mountain is not as polished as Live At Massey Hall, which was recorded three years later as Young's career trajectory was reaching superstar status. As a result the atmosphere is electrically intimate, making the listener feel like they are actually at the gig - the true marker of a great live album. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
It's the kind of recording that makes you wish you were there—but also makes you feel like you are. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Much of the time, though, those raps meander--a good fifth of Sugar Mountain's 70-minute run time is devoted to them, and their replay value is limited. Which is too bad--the performances are excellent. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
Sugar Mountain is less impressive than Massey Hall but it offers more insight, catching Young at a peak of undiscovered exuberance, sharing loose stories between songs, strumming aimlessly and joking with the crowd. |
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| n/a by www.spin.com |
His deceptively fragile vocal style and skewed lyrical genius were already evident at age 22 in these 13 acoustic songs recorded over two nights at a Michigan Episcopal church. |
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| n/a by www.uncut.co.uk |
Sugar Mountain is a fascinating snapshot of Neil Young at a transitory moment in his long career, for which it also provides an indelible template. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
The tracklist ebbs and flows between tunes unknown to the audience, Buffalo Springfield material and songs from his teenage years (the tremulous lament for youth, Sugar Mountain), and strikes a consistently plaintive note. It's this banter with the audience, however, that leavens proceedings. |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
The quality of the recording and performances makes for a brilliant soundtrack. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
As a portrait of this ageless artist as a truly young man, Sugar Mountain is an invaluable document--and a pretty compelling one, too. |
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| n/a by www.pastemagazine.com |
Live at Canterbury House, the latest in a series of live recordings from his archives, is pretty simple-left track is voice, right track acoustic guitar. Simplicity, as is evident here, serves him quite well. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
The accompanying DVD offers only a higher fidelity version of the audio performance, but Sugar Mountain remains a magical and rare portrait of a budding genius. |
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