![]() ![]() ![]() "The Needle and the Damage Done" was taken from a live solo performance at UCLA on 30 January 1971. ![]() A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there." Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. He would later write that the record "put me in the middle of the road. The album's success caught Young off guard and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. The song is also notable for alternating between a standard 4/4 time signature for verses and choruses and an unusual 11/8 (6/8+5/8) for interludes. It has a typical Neil Young structure consisting of four chords during the multiple improvised solos. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue." "Words (Between the Lines of Age)", the last song on the album, featured a lengthy guitar workout with the band. I don't like my words when I listen to it. Young later wrote of "Alabama" in his autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, saying it "richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. The former song was also at least partially responsible (along with the aforementioned "Southern Man") for the creation of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1973 hit " Sweet Home Alabama" which mentions Neil by name. Other songs returned to some usual Young themes: "Alabama" was "an unblushing rehash of ' Southern Man'" and " The Needle and the Damage Done" was a lament for great artists who had died of heroin addiction. The record was a massive hit, producing a US number one single in "Heart of Gold". Īfter the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young went their separate ways in 1970, Young recruited a group of country session musicians (which he christened The Stray Gators) and recorded a country rock record, Harvest. It was the best-selling album of 1972 in the United States. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks, and spawned two hit singles, " Old Man", which peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " Heart of Gold", which reached #1. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks and vocals by noted guests David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, and James Taylor. Harvest is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on February 1, 1972, on Reprise Records. ![]()
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