1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #136. Neil Young With Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

Neil Young With Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

Label – Reprise
Producer – David Briggs and Neil Young
Art Direction – Ed Thrasher
Nationality – USA
Running Time – 40:29

Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)

1. Cinnamon Girl
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3. Round And Round
4. Down By The River
5. Losing End (When You're On)
6. Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
7. Cowgirl In The Sand

With this record we venture into the year 1969. This was Neil Young’s second solo album and marked the debut of his backing band Crazy Horse. They are the trio of Danny Whitten (guitar), Ralph Molina (drums), and Billy Talbot (bass) that Young had plucked from the struggling local Los Angeles group the Rockets.
With the new backing band in place, Young quickly recorded this record that featured loose, guitar-heavy rock songs — "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" — that helped to redefined him as less of a folk artist and more like a rock & roll artist, otherwise known as the grandfather of grunge. Those final two ("River" and "Cowgirl") were each in the nine-to-ten-minute range and the band gets to stretch out it’s playing chops.
When this record appeared in May 1969 it becoming a moderate hit. ( Neil Young's joining Crosby, Stills & Nash the month after its release didn't hurt either I’m sure.) A year and a half after its release, it became a gold album, and it has since gone platinum. 40+ years later, Neil is still playing this sort of music with Crazy Horse, with many bands (Pearl Jam among them) clearly influenced by it.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
It is highly recommended.


You can purchase the remastered vinyl here

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