Album Review: Neil Young - A Letter Home

Recorded by Jack White using a 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth (think Neil Young standing in a phone booth with his guitar), A Letter Home is the stuff of a sound engineer's wet dream. The unconventional technique carries across the entire album – a covers album, featuring versions of Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen and more – and although it threatens to get stale, it instead recalls dusted-off Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams tunes, offering as intimate a portrait of Young as you'd ever get from his original records and earning White another feather for his cap.