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Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968

Neil Young

Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968

Latest installment in the ongoing Neil Young Archives Performance Series, a solo acoustic set

ADM rating[?]

8.0

Label
Warner Bros.
UK Release date
08/12/2008
  1. 10.0 |   The Times

    Young's pathological sifting of his old tapes has uncovered this marvel – a recording of one of his first solo gigs, six months after his band, Buffalo Springfield, split up.
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  2. 10.0 |   Uncut

    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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  3. 9.0 |   The Observer

    Ten tracks of nerdy asides and witty revelations break up the music, giving a thrilling 'Neil Young in your living room effect'.
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  4. 8.0 |   Blender

    Between songs, Young chats with nervous, self-deprecating comedy: “I guess I should have some happy songs,” he muses.
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  5. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    His meandering tale of a two-week attempt to hold down a job at a bookshop while experimenting with ""diet"" pills is priceless.
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  6. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Playing half of the imminent Neil Young in pristine, tremulous-vocal form and reclaiming six of his Buffalo Springfield songs.. as powerful here without a stitch of strings.
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  7. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    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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  8. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    Wonderfully stripped-back
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  9. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    Musically, Sugar Mountain isn't Young's best live solo album... the Massey Hall performance that happened three years later, and sounds much bolder and wider-ranging. But as a portrait of this ageless artist as a truly young man, it is an invaluable document-- and a pretty compelling one, too.
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  10. 7.0 |   Spin

    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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  11. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    The strictly acoustic November ’68 set finds the artist caught awkwardly between his recent success with Buffalo Springfield and his budding solo ambitions.
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  12. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    It's just Neil and his acoustic guitar strumming through a collection of songs that include old favourites and lesser-known ditties.
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