Music Review

Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 (2008)

Neil Young (Musician)

Reviewed by Greg Kot | Nov 29, 2008

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EW's GRADE

B+

Details Release Date: Dec 02, 2008; Lead Performance: Neil Young (Musician); Genre: Folk

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Neil Young's seemingly bottomless archive yields Sugar Mountain — Live at Canterbury House 1968, a pair of acoustic concerts recorded soon after he left Buffalo Springfield. His meandering monologues contrast with the top-notch if uniformly pensive songs. ''Mr. Soul'' and ''Expecting to Fly'' reprise the then-recent past, while tracks like ''The Loner,'' the exquisite ''Birds,'' and the bittersweet title song provide a live demo tape of his immediate future. B+

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Originally posted Nov 26, 2008 Published in issue #1024 Dec 05, 2008 Order article reprints

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