Neil Young`s fans have long known he`s a stickler about sound. There`s nothing unpremeditated when he summons thick lava surges of electric-guitar distortion or when he plucks acoustic-guitar chords to call in pristine solitude. So maybe it was inevitable that he would end up collaborating with another careful shaper of replication and depth, Daniel Lanois, the manufacturer who has opened up somber spaces on albums by U2, Peter Gabriel, the Neville Brothers and Bob Dylan.
