Neil Young Gets Personal on Latest Disc

NEW YORK (AP) _ Neil Young acknowledges that a lot of personal reflection went into his latest album _ he recorded it in the days before he underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm. <br/><br/>Young, 59,

Monday, September 26th 2005, 11:13 am

By: News On 6

NEW YORK (AP) _ Neil Young acknowledges that a lot of personal reflection went into his latest album _ he recorded it in the days before he underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm.

Young, 59, told Time magazine he wrote the first song on ``Prairie Wind'' on his way to a Nashville studio after getting the news from his doctor earlier this year.

``Then I went back up to New York on Monday for a pre-surgery thing, flew back to Nashville, wrote and recorded (songs) four, five, six, seven, eight and most of nine and 10. And then I got admitted, and they put me under,'' he told Time.

Young says he would have made the album anyway but acknowledges his experiences in March shaped ``Prairie Wind,'' due out Sept. 27. One song, ``Falling Off the Face of the Earth,'' draws from a voicemail left by a friend who had heard about what Young was going through.

``I don't feel like I'm slowing down, but these things happen,'' Young said. ``Yeah, there's a lot of reflection. It affected all the songs.''