“Neil Young has come a long way since the 1990s, when he reigned as rock’s noisiest elder statesman. In 2005, he’s as far removed from Ragged Glory as Ragged Glory was from Tonight’s the Night, and his past ten years have been his quietest ever. Since Young turned fifty in late 1995, at the peak […]”
“Neil Young turns 60 in November. In the last year he's survived an aneurysm and a greatest hits album. So why hasn't the man started to sound old? Sure, his voice quavers on some of the high notes on his ambitious new album, *Prairie Wind*, but he sounds remarkably preserved, showing the same age and wear he's shown for years: That voice-- alternately gentle and strident, tender and outraged-- has”
