Neil Young Album Out In Stores - "Lookin' For A Leader" Most Added!

Living with War will be arriving at stores throughout the week, shipped direct from manufacturing plants this may result in some stores receiving CDs before other

CDs being shipped as they are manufactured is a way to get the CDs to the street faster than conventional distribution allows

check with your local stores for availability

"Looking for a Leader" most added track in USA radio this week... "Lookin' for a Leader" has been added to more station than any other song this week... thanks to the many stations, both satellite and terrestrial, that are playing "Lookin' for a Leader" and other songs from Living With War

many foreign press reviews, and a few USA press reviews, have said that this record will not get played in the USA... this record will not get played in the USA I'm glad you proved them wrong Thank you USA radio! ny may 7/06

ALSO: Due to the rushed nature of the "living with war" cd, first editions contain no hidden tracks. A second edition cd with enhanced artwork and bonus tracks is being considered. The "living with war" dvd has not yet entered production

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:aa1gtq0zcu46

In a move that deliberately echoes the rush release of "Ohio" in the wake of the Kent State shootings, Neil Young bashed out his 2006 protest record Living with War in a matter of days, sometimes recording songs the day they were written, and then seized the opportunities of the digital age by streaming the entire album on his website only weeks after it was recorded, with the official digital and CD releases trailing several days later. It's the best use yet of the instant, widespread distribution that the Web has to offer, and it also hearkens back to the days when folk music was topical, turning the news into song. But if the ballads of the 19th century were passed along gradually, growing along the way, or if the protest tunes of the folk revival of the 1950s and '60s grew in stature being performed regularly, gaining strength as singer after singer sang them, Living with War captures a specific moment in time: early 2006, when George W. Bush's approval ratings slipped to the low 30s, as discontent sowed by the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, rising gas prices, and much more turned into a general malaise in the country (or in political shorthand, it was the moment when George W. turned into Jimmy Carter). To some, the specificity of Young's writing on Living with War will forever date it, but that's a risk with any topical folk, rock, or pop, from "We Shall Overcome" to "We Are the World" — or "Ohio," for that matter. Young is aware of this and embraces the allegedly short shelf life of his songs for Living with War by directly addressing the political turmoil in the U.S.A. in 2006 and the real human wreckage it has left behind. As such, it will function as a vivid document of its era, as much as any journalism of its time, but Living with War isn't rock-as-CNN: it's a work of art, and it's a canny one at that...

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It's not perfect, but it has a vitality lacking in Young's recorded work of the last 15 years or so, and its blend of Greendale's loud, meandering guitar rock and the bittersweet mournful, aging hippie vibe of Prairie Wind is not only appealing, it's better executed than either of those good yet flawed records — and that execution not only applies to the ragged glory of the recording, but to the songs themselves. They manage to be unified in a way that Young wanted Greendale to be but didn't quite pull off, yet they also stand on their own and are, overall, more memorable than those on Prairie Wind. And that's the reason why, politics aside, Living with War stands as a very strong, effective Neil Young album that will continue to have a punch long after the George W. Bush administration has faded into the history books.