Various - Cinnamon Girl (Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity) download free

Needless to say, I’m a huge fan of covers, especially if they are done well ... and for some reason women seem to do covers the best. There is something in the quality and the nature of a woman’s representation of the music that seems as genuine as the original release. I mean no disrespect to the male artists, I have many covers by men who do an excellent job ... but for the most part, they tent to try and out shine the original material, while their counter parts, the women, make bright insightful interpretations.A first rate assemblage of women have come together to record the songs of Neil Young, a man who's work lends itself well to the female voice. All of the women found here play their own instruments, they do not rely on their bands to carry the weight. And these aren’t the women who one might, at first thought, rattle off as the artists to be included ... Lori McKenna, will haunt you with “The Needle and the Damage Done” ... while Cindy Wheller rolls through “Old Man,” slowing it down to something just below that of a heart beat, and uses an echo throughout the entire song, giving the number the feel that it’s floating on air ... and Britta Phillips [from Luna] belts out “I Am A Child” as if she actually were one ... on “Like A Hurricane,” Kristin Hersh has some great fuzz that hangs like a haze over the entire song ... of course I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Jill Sobule’s version of “Down By The River,” where she softly repeats the word “dream” over and over during the instrumental section, so that the song actually begins to feel like a dream. All of the interpretations have been well considered and extensively thought out ... a great compilation of some of Neil Young’s best and most enduring songs.This album has quickly become one of my favorites ... just a joy every time I cue it up. I’m serious ... if Josie Cotton doesn’t have you crying over “Cowgirl In The Sand,” then you truly have no soul. And I haven’t even mentioned Kate York’s “Comes A Time,” or the rest of the amazing material found here.