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The British critic Sam Inglis wrote that if Harvest Moon had been released in 1973, Young would have been accused of artistic stagnation as the song sounded too similar to the songs on his album Harvest, but in 1992 the song was celebrated as the "end of a great musical journey", a refreshing return to Young's musical style of the early 1970s. [8]
"Harvest Moon" celebrates a lasting relationship. In a 2021 post to the Neil Young Archives website, Young confirms that the song is about his marriage with Pegi: "Harvest Moon is a song I wrote for Pegi, my wife of many years, who gave me two beautiful children and helped bring up my first child Zeke.
The song has had a long history with Hollywood movies. In 1932, Dave Fleischer directed an animated short titled Shine On Harvest Moon. A 1938 Roy Rogers western was named after the song, as was a 1944 biographical film about Bayes and Norworth. The song has been featured in dozens of movies, including Along Came Ruth (1933) and The Great ...
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Harvest is the fourth studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released on February 1, 1972, by Reprise Records, catalogue number MS 2032. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks and vocals by guests David Crosby , Graham Nash , Linda Ronstadt , Stephen Stills , and James Taylor .
"Harvest" is a slow country dance tune. [1] [2] It has a slow tempo, and Uncut magazine contributor Graeme Thomson describes it as having a "calm, strangely hypnotic quality."[3] Young is backed on the song by the Stray Gators, with the addition of John Harris on piano.
All tracks on this album were mastered using the HDCD process, which Young had been utilizing for his studio work since 1995. The album was also released as a high-resolution DVD Video disc with 24bit 96 kHz audio, and in a two-disc format including the audio album plus a bonus DVD with videos for "Rockin' in the Free World" and "Harvest Moon".
Rolling Stone critic Greg Kot places this song within a progression of songs that opens Harvest Moon, which "traces a path from restlessness to reaffirmation, in which the rootless 'Unknown Legend' and the doubt-filled narrator of 'From Hank to Hendrix' finally find contentment beneath the 'Harvest Moon.'” [10]