Matured, relaxed album

The enormous versatility of Canadian Neil Young has always impressed me over the last few decades. It convinces as a band member (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and as a solo artist alike, both in the electrical and in the acoustic segment. Neil Young impressed here as a musician and as a songwriter, but especially as a personality. It characterizes a remarkable ability to live with contradictions - as an artist and as a human being.

His musical spectrum ranges from relatively harmonious sounds in terms of "Harvest" to downright brutal publications such as "Live Rust". "Comes A Time" reaches more on the thread of "Harvest", with the death of a close friend, the divorce from his wife Carrie Snodgress that (certainly not always simple) living with epilepsy and the tough inner struggle with the demands of his artistry and enter the appropriate expression of his plays something "Matured".

Total conveys "Comes A Time" a very closed, relaxed and happy future impression. Almost all pieces are finished by Nicolette Larsen's fantastic vocal harmonies. You do the album any favors when highlighting individual songs. With one exception, perhaps: "Four Strong Winds", a composition of the Canadian Ian Tyson, would in itself is reason enough to buy this indescribably beautiful album.

It's the only song on this album, which was not written by Neil Young. This song is a classic gecovert, several times, but rarely as brilliant as here. Although unique, it fits well into the context of songs like "Going Back", "Already One", "Human Highway" and, not to forget, the title track "Comes A Time". Despite hints of "There's A World" and "A Man Needs A Maid" a rather untypical album in Neil Young's oeuvre, but one of my favorite.