Neil Young's second solo album, released only four months after his first, was nearly a total rejection of that polished effort. Though a couple of songs, "Round Round (It Won't Be Long)" and "The Losing End (When You're On)," shared that album's country-folk style, they were altogether livelier and more assured. The difference was that, while Neil Young was a solo effort, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere marked the beginning of Young's recording association with Crazy Horse, the trio of Danny Whitten (guitar), Ralph Molina (drums), and Billy Talbot (bass) that Young had drawn from the struggling local Los Angeles group the Rockets. With them, Young quickly cut a set of loose, guitar-heavy ock songs -- "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" -- that redefined him as a ock & roll artist. The songs were deliberately underwritten and sketchy as compositions, their lyrics more suggestive than complete, but that made them useful as frames on which to hang the extended improvisations ("River" and "Cowgirl" were each in the nine-to-ten-minute range) Young played with Crazy Horse and to reflect the ominous tone of his singing. Young lowered his voice from the near-falsetto employed on his debut to a more expressive range, and he sang with greater confidence, accompanied by Whitten and, on "Round Round," by Robin Lane. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was breathtakingly different when it appeared in May 1969, both for Young and for ock in general, and it reversed his commercial fortunes, becoming a moderate hit. (Young's joining Crosby, Stills & Nash the month after its release didn't hurt his profile, of course.) A year and a half after its release, it became a gold album, and it has since gone platinum. And it set a musical pattern Young and his many musical descendants have followed ever since; almost 30 years later, he was still playing this sort of music with Crazy Horse, and a lot of contemporary bands were playing music clearly influenced by it.
Russel from Stillwater parties with real Topeka people. Obligatory 'Almost Famous' entry into this list. Even more so than the famous 'Tiny Dancer' scene, this scene, where Russel and William decide to take in some REAL Topeka nightlife, speaks to me! Maybe it's because I have always wondered what I would do if one of my favorite rock stars came to a house party I was at and got totally m...
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From 1969's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. I think of Neil Young as a more emotional Bob Dylan, who probably smoked less cigarettes. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere- My favorite album of his. (2nd Studio album):MP3: Down By The River - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (YSI)MP3: Round And Round (It Won't Be Long) - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (YSI)MP3: Cinnimon Girl - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (YSI)It's t...
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From 1969's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. I think of Neil Young as a more emotional Bob Dylan, who probably smoked less cigarettes. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere- My favorite album of his. (2nd Studio album):MP3: Down By The River - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (YSI)MP3: Round And Round (It Won't Be Long) - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (YSI)MP3: Cinnimon Girl - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (YSI)It's t...
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This is a cyberjam with my YT friend Miker2. Mike lives back east in New York state and we were trying to figure out what we could do together. I had this solo rendition of Cinammon Girl and sent it to him and he sent me back his video playing and singing along. Then I extracted the audio and remastered both audio tracks then mixed them and did a final remastering. YouTube audio doesn't do the ...
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Digging through my digital collection I realized I have four different versions of one of my favorite Neil Young songs, Cowgirl in the Sand. There's the studio version, from Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, and three live versions, two of which are acoustic. They're a fascinating study on contrasts, the Massey Hall version quite and introspective, that from 4-way Street much more emotionally ...
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Mike Perks and get together to cover Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere:
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Initially recorded for use as a solo acoustic rendition.Got the idea to collaborate with Mike Perks (who does some great Neil Young covers himself) and he enlisted his wife Birde to join us on Bass guitar. Hope you enjoy our Collaboration:
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Russel from Stillwater parties with real Topeka people. Obligatory 'Almost Famous' entry into this list. Even more so than the famous 'Tiny Dancer' scene, this scene, where Russel and William decide to take in some REAL Topeka nightlife, speaks to me! Maybe it's because I have always wondered what I would do if one of my favorite rock stars came to a house party I was at and got totally m...
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The two-chord jam, as perfected by Neil Young on his Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere album! This version of one of that album's primo jams is from a 1970 concert at the Fillmore East. Neil can't wait to get jammin'! I'm sure you can't wait yourself, so hey man, don't let me hold you back.Neil Young, "Cowgirl in the Sand" Original post blogged on b2evolution .
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