After the Gold Rush

After the Gold Rush
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 19, 1970[1]
RecordedAugust 1969 – June 1970
StudioSunset Sound, Hollywood, California
Sound City, Hollywood, California
Redwood Studios, Topanga, California
Genre
Length34:32
LabelReprise: RS 6383
Producer
Neil Young chronology
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
(1969)
After the Gold Rush
(1970)
Harvest
(1972)
Singles from After the Gold Rush
  1. "Oh Lonesome Me" / "I've Been Waiting for You"
    Released: 1969
  2. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" / "Birds"
    Released: October 19, 1970[5]
  3. "When You Dance I Can Really Love" / "Sugar Mountain"
    Released: March 1971[6]

After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by the Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in September 1970 on Reprise Records. It is one of four high-profile solo albums released by the members of folk rock group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu. Young's album consists mainly of country folk music along with several rock tracks, including "Southern Man".[3] The material was inspired by the unproduced Dean Stockwell-Herb Bermann screenplay After the Gold Rush.

After the Gold Rush entered Billboard Top Pop Albums chart on September 19, and peaked at number eight in October.[7] Two of the three singles taken from the album, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance I Can Really Love", made it to number 33 and number 93 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite a mixed initial reaction, the album has since appeared on a number of greatest albums of all time lists.

In 2014, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[8]

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  2. ^ Richie Unterberger (February 20, 2014). Jingle Jangle Morning: Folk-Rock in the 1960s. BookBaby. p. 1089. ISBN 978-0-9915892-1-0.
  3. ^ a b William, Ruhlmann. After the Gold Rush at AllMusic. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  4. ^ Robert Christgau (November 15, 1998). Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno. Harvard University Press. p. 470. ISBN 978-0-674-44318-1.
  5. ^ "Billboard Hot 100". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. 1970. p. 72.
  6. ^ "Spotlight Singles". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. 1971. p. 58.
  7. ^ "Neil Young charts history". Billboard.
  8. ^ "Grammy Hall of Fame Letter A". Grammy. October 18, 2010. Retrieved July 18, 2021.