Neil Young always held a fickle and mercurial creative antenna. Such unpredictable intuitions would steer the Canadian singer-songwriter through his 60-odd-year recording output. Through tested friendships and strained band politics, Young would doggedly pursue whatever direction his instincts pointed to, resulting in erratic departures from Buffalo Springfield before major events, to the perennial half-orbits of the Crosby, Stills, & Nash super…