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Rust Never Sleeps
Rust Never Sleeps is a live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records. Most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio. Young used the phrase "rust never sleeps" as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid artistic complacency and try more progressive, theatrical approaches to performing live.
Background and recording.
The bulk of the album was recorded live at San
1979, Young and Crazy Horse released the album "Live Rust", a compilation of older classics interweaving within the "Rust Never Sleeps" track list. The title is borrowed from the slogan for Rust-Oleum paint, and was suggested by Mark Mothersbaugh of the new wave band Devo. It is also an aphorism describing Young's musical self-renewal to avert the threat of irrelevance.
Critical reception.
Reviewing for "The Village Voice" in 1979, Robert Christgau called "Rust Never Sleeps" Young's