Neil Young and Promise of the Real - Noise and Flowers (2022) Album Review

It wouldn't be a weekday if Neil Young wasn't releasing an album.
If his insanely prolific archive series has tiers of interest -
from completests only fair to previously unreleased treasures of
gold, this sits almost uniquely in the top pile. Not in anyway
fascinating by the standards of a  long ditched, never
released classic album, it's a simple live set with his, ahem,
Crazy Horse-lite band of much younger players, The Promise of the
Real. But what elevates this to the heavens, is that its from a
2019 tour in honor of his late manager a close friend of 50
years, Elliot Roberts, so for this most cantankerous and
uncommercial of artists, we get a tracklist of 'greatest hits'
and "golden oldies", nothing after 1995, the kind of thing he
never does. Putting it immediately alongside the iconic live
sets, Weld and Live Rust. The set list alone will blow any Neil
Young tragic's mind but almost uniquely in his catalogue, this
one expertly blends gentle country laments, country rock and full
blown guitar feedback blitzkriegs into one enthusiastic,
compelling whole.