Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts strode onto the stage at Deer Lake Park to little fanfare to open the first of two dates on the Love Earth tour. But that is pretty typical for Young, who has never been a lasers-and-explosions kind of fella.

Taking up his acoustic and trusty G key harmonica, the legendary folk rocker rolled right back to his fifth album, On the Beach, to strum out Ambulance Blues. In it, he sings the lyric “It’s hard to say the meaning of this song” — and it was. But the 1974 tune was a good way to get the very chatty crowd to turn its attention to the stage.

Switching up to his Les Paul to scrape out the first of many guitar licks to spike into the overcast night sky, Young and his new backing band stumbled into the distinctively sloppy groove of the classic Cowgirl in

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