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Neil Young's Visible Republic: Americana

Wayne Robins, Rock's Backpages, 29 June 2012

THERE'S ALWAYS a method to Neil Young's madness, even on his most prosaic projects. Who would have thought that the eardrum-puncturing solo guitar project Le Noise would be at the center of his third Jonathan Demme-directed full-length film (Journeys) a road movie that takes up back to Omemee, the town in north Ontario that left us helpless, helpless, helpless?

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