After the Gold Rush

This article is about the album. For the song, see After the Gold Rush (song).

After the Gold Rush
Studio album by
Neil Young
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]

  1. ^ "NY-ATG". Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  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.