![]() ![]() ![]() Looking back on his body of work, it seems that what motivates Neil Young in an artistic direction is almost entirely personal. But, how does this stylistic choice play into what’s going on in the song? It certainly was a mainstay on Harvest, and now again six years later on Comes a Time, and “Look Out For My Love”. And it’s true that much of his output afterwards focused on a more abrasive hard rock sound on albums Tonight’s the Night, On the Beach, and Zuma.īut, another style that still kept Neil Young interested was country-folk music,with orchestral pop flavouring. Neil Young’s statement about his arguably most famous album, Harvest, more specifically about his song “Heart of Gold” was that it was the song that put him in the middle of the road, after which he “aimed for the ditch”. It’s “Look Out For My Love”, from 1978’s Comes a Time, a record that represented a then-recent return to Young’s musical base sound (or one of them) that brought him to prominence. This is a song about returning home after a sojourn abroad, and to a relationship that has meanwhile moved on. Listen to this track by Canadian singer-songwriting force of nature Neil Young. ![]()
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