Prairie Wind

HEART OF GOLD: It's easy to sneer at rock dinosaurs plodding from arena to arena in reunion tours that may have more to do with the lack of a 401(k) than an undimmed mission. Then there's Neil Young: Coming off the valedictory glow of last year's autumnal "Prairie Wind" and Jonathan Demme... more's exquisite, burnished concert film, "Heart of Gold," Young unleashed his most political music in 35 years with "Living with War." He finished the year with the first gem from his long-delayed archive project, a rowdy and righteous 1970 concert album recorded with Crazy Horse at the Fillmore East.

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