Neil Young turns a bank-branded pavilion into church, skips the sermon (and the new album) - SaportaReport

Neil Young turns a bank-branded pavilion into church, skips the sermon (and the new album) - SaportaReport

Neil Young is one of the very few people on earth who can make a corporate-branded amphitheater feel like a cathedral. Not because he tries to — he doesn’t — but because the gravitational pull of his career, and the stubborn refusal to sand down its jagged edges, turns even a place named after a bank into something approaching holy ground. Friday night in Charlotte, an unseasonably cool August evening that felt suspiciously like October, the 79-…