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REVIEW: A Great Canadian Artist Reveals Some Secrets -- Including Why He Once Ate Tar -- in Neil Young Journeys

REVIEW: A Great Canadian Artist Reveals Some Secrets -- Including Why He Once Ate Tar -- in Neil Young Journeys

Even Neil Young couldn’t resist. “This is a town in north Ontario,” he says at the beginning of Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan Demme’s uneven, engrossing combination of road-trip documentary and concert film. Journeys opens with Young in his hometown of Omemee, which alert Ontarians might note is not actually all that far north. It’s less than two hours from Toronto by car, which is how Young and Demme travel there, in a stately 1956 Ford Crown Victoria, for a gig at the city’s famed Massey Hall.
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