Neil Young
Coastal
★★★★
Dir: Daryl Hannah
(SHAKEY PICTURES/WARNER BROS)
Two summers ago, on his first tour in four years, Neil Young played a series of solo shows at relatively-intimate outdoor venues along the West Coast. His set was largely songs he rarely played live, and the shows were remarkably warm and chatty.
On the road with him he took a heap of instruments, an electric train-set, an old fireplace, and his wife Daryl Hannah, who kept the camera rolling onstage and off. Part concert film, part home-video-on-wheels - Neil and bus driver JD, perfectly happy nattering about nothing in particular like two old blokes on a road trip - it has the same warmth and chattiness as the gigs.
Hard to think of another live Neil Young movie where he seems both a little unsure of himself and so contented. The accompanying live album of 11 songs opens with Mirror Ball's I'm The Ocean and closes with Barn's Don't Forget Love.
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