Silver & Gold (Neil Young album)
Silver & Gold is the 23rd studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on April 25, 2000. Like the previous albums Comes a Time and Harvest Moon and the subsequent Prairie Wind, it largely features acoustic performances with a backing band of Nashville musicians with a long history of collaboration with Young. The bulk of the album was written and recorded in the late 1990s after touring with Crazy Horse on the H.O.R.D.E. Festival. Young enjoyed writing and performing quieter music after the volume of the band performances. He would explain in a March 2000 radio interview: "I wrote ("Good to See You") in my bus in Florida somewhere. There was a thunderstorm and the HORDE tour was playing. And, you know, we had to shut down for half an hour or something. And so I went to my bus and I was in the back. And my voice was real low ‘cause I’d been playing with Crazy Horse and screaming and yelling and carrying on. So my voice was real low. And I wrote these- a couple of songs. "Good to See You" was one of them. And "Without Rings"." Two of the songs date from