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Old Black is the nickname given to Neil Young's primary electric guitar. Most of Young's electric guitar work has been recorded using this instrument. Though he has used a variety of different instruments, this Les Paul has remained ubiquitous and an obvious favorite. Young acquired Old Black in early 1968 in a trade with then Buffalo ...
Prairie Wind is the 28th studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on September 27, 2005.. After an album rooted in 1960s soul music, Are You Passionate?, and the musical novel Greendale, Prairie Wind features an acoustic-based sound reminiscent of his earlier commercially successful albums Harvest and Harvest Moon.
Young wrote most of the songs on an old Gibson guitar owned by his wife Pegi since she was a child. He recalls writing "Ten Men Working" in a contemporary interview: "I had this groove going through my head and I was playing it on my guitar, which is actually my wife's guitar, which she's had since she was just a little teenybopper, I guess.
"Old King" – features Young on six-string banjo, accompanied by Emmylou Harris on rhythm guitar and harmony vocals. "Comes a Time" – dedicated to Nicolette Larson who sang on Young's Comes a Time album; features the backing singers and crew lined up across the front of the stage playing acoustic guitars.
Neil Percival Young OC OM [1] [2] (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American [3] singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield.
"Old Man" is a song written and performed by Canadian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Neil Young from his 1972 album Harvest. "Old Man" was released as a single on Reprise Records in the spring of 1972, reaching number 4 in Canada, [ 3 ] and number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the week ending June 3.
Young rented a stage and arranged twenty different monitors of varying sizes in a circle, with his guitar, amp and piano in the center. "Everywhere I looked, I saw the movie. It was inescapable. When I felt like playing to it, I picked up an instrument and played live. I played Old Black, my electric guitar, solo for most of the movie."
At times, it allowed Neil to show up and just be a singer and guitar player." [13] Young reached out to his longtime collaborators Crazy Horse to record the album as he wrote a fresh batch of songs. Lofgren recalls, "Neil reached out to us and was like, 'Hey, I've got two or three songs; When I get a batch, we'll record again. Maybe in the summer.'