The Neil I love ... but only in limited edition!

After recording anecdotal unfortunately with Jack White, Neil Young starts again on the big discovery trail and we (me) gives a remarkable record as we dared to hope. Moving, intimate, nostalgic (but not too) and simply enchanting.
It must be said that Young crosses another milestone in his life. He again quarreled with Crosby, he has just separated from his wife Peggi, with whom he was married for 36 years. It lends him a story with a much younger actress than he. And he has just released a second autobiographical book that speaks especially automobiles.
The old bear still has a beating heart!
If you've read other reviews, you already know that in this "Limited Edition" the old veteran offers us songs solo version, stripped to the extreme, with guitar, ukulele, banjo, piano, harmonica.
These range from "pop reflection" (Plastic Flowers) to folk song manner 20s until grimy blues (Like You Used to Do), without forgetting the folk sixties (the beautiful When I Watch You Sleeping).

For me it is CE disk that is the REAL Storytone. The other disc (the normal version) is rather a bonus, lacks the raw power of this solo cake.

The singer has a fragile voice and guitarist does not try too prowess in picking. But there is a force in those interpretations which prove that the interpreter, if he wrinkled face and gray hair becoming rarer, still has a real conviction in his art.

Unlike others, I do not find the Neil Young's Harvest, a disc where the pieces were more leches and also fundamentally "juvenile". I see more melancholy Young Journey Through The Past, without delusions Jack Nitsche.
The songs are almost all poignant and evocative of the great years of the Canadiens. Without provided "remake."
After the excellent Croz Crosby, Young shows that it is far from being a past glory.

Now add to that an album with versions "accompanied" the same songs, with either a symphony orchestra or a big band / rock band (how "This Note's For You").
And these revised versions have nothing artificial, even when they are a little clumsy (Say Hello To Chicago), they add new facets to acoustic versions (ex .: All Those Dreams or Tumbleweed with the phrase "I ' m glad I've found you "seems to refer directly to his current experience).
Wonderful!

You expect nothing old Neil?
You should be wary.