All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine Volume 9 of Neil Young's long-delayed, suddenly prodigious Archives series, A Treasure chronicles Neil's 1984-1985 tour with the International Harvesters, a crackerjack assemblage of country pros featuring guitarist Ben Keith, pianist Hargus "Pig" Robbins, fiddler Rufus Thibodeaux, and Spooner Oldham. This is one of Young's famous left turns, as he abandoned the tightly wound electro of Trans and the hipster rockabilly of Everybody's Rockin' for a trip back to the country, cutting Old Ways then hitting the road with the International Harvesters. Old Ways was a little stilted but the same can't be said of A Treasure: this is vivid and alive, pulsating with a ...
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