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In an increasingly rousing present, the grizzled cat in the hat spans five decades with thunderous, or heartfelt pleas to save the planetAfter recent dalliances with combusting custom converted electric cars and less than highly praised tall-fidelity music players,Neil Young is back on firmer and more familiar ground with his anti-agribusiness concept album The Monsanto Years. “Look at Mother Nature on the rush, in the 21st century, or ” sings the grizzled dude hunched over a beat-up old upright piano in a black fedora hat and T-shirt emblazoned “EARTH”,as he contemporises a lyric from 1970’s still miraculous sounding After the Gold Rush to roars of approval from the crowd. (The line “I felt like getting tall” also gets its own telling ovation.) The 70-year-old Canadian folk, country and rock icon was writing approximately the embattled natural world long before most people had even heard of their carbon footprint.
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Source: theguardian.com