Track Listing

1. Goin' Back
2. Comes A Time
3. Look Out For My Love
4. Peace Of Mind
5. Lotta Love
6. Human Highway
7. Already One
8. Field Of Opportunity
9. Motor Cycle Mama
10. Four Strong Winds

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16434 in Music
• Released on: 1993-06-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

CD Description
With steel guitars, fiddles and lots of acoustic guitars, this low-key folk-rock album harks back to Young's great AFTER THE GOLD RUSH-HARVEST period, and if it doesn't measure upthat's only because of the ridiculously high standards the earlier albums set. Taken by itself, COMES A TIME is a fine collection, anchored by the timeless wonderment of the titlesong; a cover of Ian & Sylvia's "Four Strong Winds", and the nearly indescribable "Look Out For My Love", which is either a love song, a threat or both.
COMES A TIME also features "Lotta Love", which was released simultaneously by Nicolette Larson and was a major hit for her. Larson doesn't singon Young's version, but her background vocals distinguish much of the rest of COMES A TIME. Crazy Horse puts in an unusually low-key--but typically warm and ragged--appearance on two songs, "Look Out For My Love" and "Lotta Love".

Customer Reviews

Folkin' Classic!
Neil's smiling on the cover and it's easy to see why when you have a collection of songs this good. This is Young firmly in folk/country land, and I feel his most successful foray in that genre. Every song effortlessly wraps itself around your memory and it all sounds so easy with melodies and lyrics this strong. On Lotta Love and Look Out For My Love Neil is backed by a very laid-back Crazy Horse, and provide two of the album's highlights. Elsewhere he gracefully tackles the old folk standard Four Strong Winds and provides a standard of his own in the bouyant Comes A Time. The mood is low key, Neil sings of broken loves and lost souls and never once sounds like he's moping. This is such a soft, elegant record it's impossible to dislike. In Neil's pantheon of great albums it is often criminally neglected, so do yourself a favour.....

Comes a time,cometh the man
A beautiful laid back country -tinged album from Mr Young.the album opens with the haunting "Goin'back" with lovely harmony from Ms Larson (catch her on the NeilYoung DVD "Unplugged"
The title track will get the old toes tapping and my two favourite tracks on the album are with Crazy Horse,a subtle Horse "Look out for my love" boasts fine lyrics from Neil " I'm home again to you ,Babe,you know it makes me wonder,sitting in the quiet slipstream in the thunder " followd by the lovely "Lotta love",recorded on "Live Rust". The latter part of the album is high on the feel-good factor and the stand out is the optimistic "Field of Opportunity "In the field of opportunity,It's plowin' time again ""Motorcycle Mama " is a sort of slow,bluesy song with obscure lyrics to this one "Motorcycle Mama won't you lay your big spike down,I always get in trouble when you bring it around "I've never understood the lyric to that song,but yet again my I.Q. level is very low !!The album finishes with superb "Four strong Winds" with Neil's voice at It's most yearning !
This is a great,laid back album,best remembered for the harmonmy vocals of Nicolette Larson and the writing ability of Mr Young ,Neil is...smiling on the front cover !!!!!

Out of the ditch and back to the middle of the road
While perennially held up as an example of the more successful side of Young's folk and country recordings, this album pales alongside records such as 1985's "Old Ways" and the now deleted 1980 album "Hawks and Doves." While some of the songs here are excellent ("Look Out for my Love" and "Lotta Love," two tracks featuring Crazy Horse giving somewhat uncharacteristic acoustic performances, are particularly good), songs such as "Already One" are drowned in syrupy strings and Nashville styled cliché. It's no surprise that Young chooses to end this album with a predictable cover version of the Canadian favourite "Four Strong Winds," as this record finds the artist curiously unwilling to engage both himself and his audience. Still, what's good is very good indeed, and Young's perverse spirit still shines through in the inclusion of one ridiculously incongruous blues-rocker, the chunky "Motorcycle Mama."