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Young has often played "From Hank to Hendrix" in live sets, frequently to open concerts. [11] [5] Many times Young tells the story of how he acquired a guitar previously owned by Hank Williams before playing the song. [5] Young played it as the last song of his 1993 MTV Unplugged concert and it was included on his Unplugged album. [15]
[1] [2] Nigel Williamson feels that the lyric about how the woman used to work in a diner was inspired by Young's first wife Susan Acevedo and that the lyrics about an "unknown legend" who is raising two kids but still has "the far away look in her eyes" were inspired by his later wife Pegi Young, and music critic Johnny Rogan agrees that the ...
This song was a memory that returned to me when I found its lyrics written on an old newspaper fifteen years after I had written it. Soon the melody and chords came rushing back. When I picked up Hank, my old Martin D-28 that once belonged to Hank Williams, the song flowed as if it had always been there.
"From Hank to Hendrix" – 5:51; In addition to the tracks found on this album, Neil Young performed the following songs live during the performance: "Dreamin' Man" "Sample and Hold" "War of Man" "Winterlong"
The lyrics of "Harvest" are obscure. [4] Music critic Johnny Rogan describes the lyrics as presenting rhetorical questions about a relationship with a woman. [ 5 ] To Rogan, the singer wonders how much love he will receive from the relationship and the extent to which we will be able to accept – or harvest – that love. [ 5 ]
The late-1800s spiritual "The Gospel Train (Get on Board)" uses the lyrics "I hear the train a-comin '" and associated songs reference a train station. Hendrix researcher Harry Shapiro adds the song "delves deep into the well of blues history, recalling one of the classic motifs of the genre" and compares it to "Jim Crow Blues" and "Make My ...
Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The man who named his children such peculiar names like Dweezil and Moon Unit was actually a straight-laced cat who didn’t embrace the drug culture of ...
At the time of his death, Hendrix had a large number of songs in various stages of recording. [7] Some were for a planned fourth studio album; 15 songs from his proposed track listings were released on the first three posthumous Hendrix albums produced by longtime associates recording engineer Eddie Kramer and drummer Mitch Mitchell: [53]