Album Review: Tuscaloosa [Live] by Neil Young & the Stray Gators

Neil Young's muse has led him to release some curious albums over the course of his five-decade career, but he has a more contentious relationship with 1973's Time Fades Away than any other title in his catalog. Time Fades Away was a live LP assembled from several shows on his early 1973 tour following the breakout success of Harvest, which he undertook shortly after the death of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten. Young was still wrestling with his grief over Whitten's passing, and his relationship with his band of the time, the Stray Gators, was not especially good (in part due to the high salary drummer Kenny Buttrey demanded, which Young then had to pay the other musicians as well).

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