Recalling 1988’s similarly unexpected This Note’s For You, Neil’s R&B-laced Are You Passionate? finds him backed by no less a formidable band than Booker T. and the M.G.s. The result is long-winded and weird, but it contains some great, often overlooked tunes: the haunting “Mr. Disappointment” could have fit snugly on Sleeps With Angels, while “Goin’ Home,” a lone number performed with Crazy Horse, provides the trademark chug the rest of Are You Passionate? lacks. The album also features what might top a list of Neil’s Very Worst Songs, the manipulative and idiotic “Let’s Roll,” written, in what could only be excused as a delusional patriotic fever, in response to the bombing of the World Trade Center. This aside, Are You Passionate? is an enjoyable, if dispensable, late period entry.