Neil Young & Crazy Horse Return To Greendale 2LP

Return To Greendale is a live album and concert film of the historic 2003 tour that brought Neil Young's 25th studio album, Greendale, to life both musically and theatrically. The songs and performance remain topical as ever, powered by themes of environmentalism, corruption, and the destructive effects of capitalism. Featuring Young's trusty partners Crazy Horse, the Toronto recording captures the epic experience of Young's immersive, small-town rock opera. The multimedia exploit seamlessly blended Young's powerful lyrics and Crazy Horse's heavy blues thrash with musical theatre, as actors joined the band onstage to play out Greendale's narrative as it unfolded. Like Greendale itself, the show eschews elaborate production in favor of a ragged and rough-hewn feel that does right by its source material.

The story of Greendale follows multiple generations of the Green family as they go about their lives in a fictional California town. Through the perspectives of multiple characters - Grandma, Grandpa, Edith, Earl, the doomed Jed, and eco-warrior Sun Green, among them - Young tells a poignant story about small-town America and the need for immediate action to save the environment. That need, of course, has only become more urgent.