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Neil Young - Fork in the Road [CD+DVD Edition]
Year & Label: 2009 Reprise Records | CD#: 9362-49787-2
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Deluxe Edition includes both the "Fork In The Road" CD and a special bonus DVD. The DVD features three live, never-before-seen concert videos, and videos for four songs on the album.

A favorite among BuzzFlash readers.

From an Online Reviewer: "Young is the musical gift of the ages that keeps on giving. This professor emeritus of the college of geezer rock has hit the pavement of the open road with new optimism about our future and our proverbial ticket to freedom……..the automobile………….Neil has melded the joy of driving fine big old driving machines with revolutionary fuel efficiency into the angst and optimism of rock'n roll…that age old dichotomy………..its clever, timely and its only rock'n roll…….its a rockin' menu for our food for thought as we meet at the 'Fork in the Road.'….so, roll over beethoven and tell tschaikowsky the news…..Neil's curiosity is running wild……crusin' and playin' the radio….with no particular place to go……..this album is a five in my book."

Another Neil Young fan writes of "Fork in the Road":

"As a lifelong Neil Young fan (since 1980), I always wait in trepidation for a new album. Sometimes they are great and sometimes they are rubbish. Thankfully this time, it is great. Unlike the previous album Chrome Dreams II (which was awful) this has 10 songs which all stand up individually with decent melodies, lyrics and guitar rifts. Sometimes you cant tell one NY song from an other (Greendale). The sound is very much like Cortez or Like a hurricane, that sort of electric sound your familiar with. The only acoustic song is Light a candle which is great little song. My personal favourites are Just singing a song, fork in the road and light a candle. This is definitley his best album for me since Freedom 20 years ago. Praire wind and Harvest moon weren't too bad either. If your a real Neil Young fan you will really like this album, if your a casual Neil Young fan you may also like it." [Buzzflash-com]

Neil Young's most recent obsession - a retooled 1959 Lincoln Continental that runs entirely on alternative energy - is the inspiration behind "Fork in the Road," the 63-year old musician's new studio album due April 7 via Reprise.

Recorded in 2008 between tour dates with his live band Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar, keyboards), Chad Cromwell (drums), Rick Rosas (bass), Pegi Young (vocals) and Anthony Crawford (vocals, guitar), "Fork" is a further rumination on Young's social and ecological concerns.

The album's main themes are drawn from Young's involvement with the Lincvolt Project, a joint effort between the singer and biodiesel pioneer Johnathan Goodwin to develop a commercially viable electric power system for automobiles. The prototype Lincvolt vehicle, Young's own 1959 Lincoln Continental, is now completely finished, and a documentary is planned about the car's first cross-country gasoline-free road trip to Washington, DC. Young even named one of the album's songs, "Johnny Magic,' after his Lincvolt partner.

A special edition of "Fork in the Road," which includes a DVD that features three music videos and a live concert video of Young performing the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” is also available. [Billboard-com]

It somehow is fitting that Fork in the Road arrived in stores a week after President Barack Obama announced his bail-out plan for the American automobile industry: it's Neil Young's one-man campaign to remind everybody what cars used to mean and what they should be again. Neil always has had a soft spot for cars – he drove a hearse from Toronto to Los Angeles, immortalizing the vehicle in "Long May You Run" – so this album-length motor manifesto couldn't be called unexpected, nor could its palpable, ever-flowing undercurrent of nostalgia be a surprise for a man who owns a toy train company. Plus, romanticizing the classic years of Detroit is natural; those big boats were gorgeous, so unlike the colorless, characterless sedans that rule the road these days. Neil knows this and knows that dependence on oil is crippling the culture, not to mention the environment, and is enough of an evangelist to cobble together his own green machine, putting an electric engine in a 1959 Lincoln Continental, driving the car to Washington and writing a whole album about the vehicle and its downtrodden times. Fittingly, Fork in the Road is like his Lincvolt: it has a new engine in an old body, so it has all of the classic contours but runs a little differently. The Lincvolt might be smooth and efficient, but Fork in the Road is charmingly clunky, a side effect of its quick creation and Young's hard-headedness. Neil might be writing records as quickly as a blogger these days but musically he's stuck in the past, never letting go of his chunky Les Paul and candied folk harmonies, embracing his status as an old crank so enthusiastically he happily presents himself as a crazy old coot on the album's cover. At times, he certainly does sound like the resident codger, snarling about the fading economy and how everybody's been downsized, good naturedly sneering "big rock star/my sales have tanked/I still got you/thanks" on the title track. Despite the undercurrent of auto nostalgia here, Young isn't living in the past and he's keenly aware of the present. This blend of dreamy thoughts of yesteryear, spitting fury over the present, and planning for the future gives Fork in the Road a bit of a kick that propels it through a few songs that aren't much more than a garage groove, but the whole thing benefits from its messiness; the loose ends make it feel alive. [A CD/DVD version was also released.] [Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide]