Bluenote Café
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| Live album by Neil Young | ||||
| Released | November 13, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | November 1987 – August 1988 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 145:09 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
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| Exclaim! | 4/10 |
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| American Songwriter | |
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| The Irish Times | |
Bluenote Café is a live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, released on November 13, 2015 on Reprise. The album is volume eleven in Young's Archives Performance Series, and features performances from Young's 1987-1988 American tour in support of his seventeenth studio album, This Note's for You (1988), with his then-backing band, The Bluenotes.
The album received positive reviews, and holds a score of 75 out of 100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favourable reviews". Chris Gerard of PopMatters gave the album nine stars out of ten, stating "Bluenote Café is essential Neil Young, further evidence that Young's 80s work has more value than many would expect or admit." Conversely, in a brief negative review, Daniel Sylvester of Exclaim! wrote that "even die-hard fans will find this as nothing more than a masochistic curiosity." In a three-star review, Will Hermes of Rolling Stone said "[these] live recordings from the late Eighties illuminate and (partly) redeem one of Neil Young's stranger eras". In a highly positive four-and-a-half-star review, Hal Horowitz of American Songwriter wrote that "even diehard Neil Young fans may not fully appreciate this offshoot in his bulging catalog. But this remarkably vibrant and immediate live compilation shows that Young took this side road very seriously and it was more than just a forgettable, momentary quirk in his diverse and winding career."
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