Jeff’s Playlist: ‘Living With War’

Neil Young — Living With War

I think this album was writ­ten around the time of the Iraq War. Give it a lis­ten, you might find it rel­e­vant to these days.

All tracks are writ­ten by Neil Young except where noted.

Music/video from YouTube; Album info from Wikipedia

No.      Title    Writer(s)         Length
1.         “After the Garden”               3:23
2.         “Living with War”                 5:04
3.         “The Restless Consumer”             5:47
4.         “Shock and Awe”                4:53
5.         “Families”                 2:25
6.         “Flags of Freedom”             3:42
7.         “Let’s Impeach the President”                   5:10
8.         “Lookin’ for a Leader”                     4:03
9.         “Roger and Out”                  4:25
10.       “America the Beautiful”       Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel Augustus Ward 2:57

Personnel

Neil Young – gui­tars, har­mon­i­ca, vocal, pro­duc­er, vocal and choir arrange­ments
Rick Rosas – bass
Chad Cromwell – drums
Tommy Bray – trum­pet
Darrell Brown – choir leader, con­duc­tor, con­trac­tor, vocal and choir arrange­ments
Rosemary Butler – choir con­duc­tor, con­trac­tor
100 voic­es: choir (fea­tur­ing Darlene Koldenhoven) record­ed in one 12-hour ses­sion at Capitol record­ing stu­dios in Los Angeles.

Production

Niko Bolas – pro­duc­er
L. A. Johnson – co-pro­duc­er
Mix-down at Redwood Digital with Niko Bolas and sec­ond engi­neer John Hausman
Mastering by Tim Mulligan at Redwood Digital
Digital sound­bites – Will Mitchell on “Let’s Impeach the President”

Released       May 2, 2006
Recorded      March 29 – April 6, 2006
Studio             Redwood Digital Capitol Studios
Length            41:49
Label              Reprise
Producer        Neil Young Niko Bolas L.A. Johnson