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Rolling Stone ranked "Harvest Moon" in 2014 as the 30th-best Neil Young song of all time. [4] AllMusic 's Matthew Greenwald strongly praised the song, stating that the song epitomized the album and "the power of nature and music, as well as a feeling of celebrating lifetime love are the focal points here, and Young captures it all in his ...
"Harvest Moon" by Neil Young Neil Young created a tune with "Harvest Moon" that could put just about anyone at ease. The music video is full of people dancing in their flannels and fall clothes ...
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]
[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 ...
"Shine On, Harvest Moon" is a popular early-1900s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. It was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era. The song was debuted by Bayes and Norworth in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908 to great acclaim. It became a pop standard, and continues to be performed ...
When I finished it and recorded it for Harvest Moon around 1990, Ben Keith's playing was among the most beautiful I had ever heard." [14] Photographer and archivist Joel Bernstein helped bring the song back to Young's attention: "Unknown Legend" actually was a song Joel brought me; he kept bringing me the lyrics and saying, 'What is this thing ...
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]
"Harvest Moon" "Heart of Gold" "Old Man" - introduced with Young explaining the inspiration for the song [3] being "an old gentleman named Louis Avila," who was the caretaker of the ranch Young purchased when he first became successful. "The Needle and the Damage Done"