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Andy Curran covered the song on the Neil Young tribute album Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young. The indie rock bands Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Toad the Wet Sprocket united to cover the song in the Monsters Music Monthly series. [17] Radiohead is known to have played the song live on several occasions and bootlegs are common on ...
"Down by the River" is a song composed by Neil Young. It was first released on his 1969 album with Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.Young explained the context of the story in the liner notes of his 1977 anthology album Decade, stating that he wrote "Down by the River," "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" while delirious in bed in Topanga Canyon with a 103 °F (39 °C) fever.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in May 1969 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6349.His first with longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it emerged as a sleeper hit amid Young's contemporaneous success with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, ultimately peaking at number 34 on the US Billboard 200 in August 1970 during a ...
"Cinnamon Girl" (1969) by Neil Young uses I–v– ♭ VII–IV (all in Mixolydian). [14] It opens the verse to "Brown Eyes" by Lady Gaga, is used in the chorus to "Rio" (1982) by Duran Duran and "Sugar Hiccup" (1983) by the Cocteau Twins, and is in the 2nd part of the bridge in "Sweet Jane" (1988) by the Cowboy Junkies. [15]
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Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald described "Cowgirl in the Sand" as "one of Neil Young's most lasting compositions" and "a true classic". [3] Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield calls it and "Down by the River" the "key tracks" on Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, calling them "long, violent guitar jams, rambling over the nine-minute mark with no trace of virtuosity at all, just staccato guitar ...
Song by Neil Young and Crazy Horse; from the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere; B-side "The Emperor of Wyoming" Released: May 14, 1969: Recorded: January 23, 1969 [1] Studio: Wally Heider Recording Studio, Hollywood: Genre: Country rock: Length: 2: 26: Label: Reprise: Songwriter(s) Neil Young: Producer(s) Neil Young; David Briggs
Recording sessions led to Young's second album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, credited as Neil Young with Crazy Horse, with Whitten on second guitar and vocals. Although his role was that of support, Whitten sang the album's opening track " Cinnamon Girl " along with Young, and Whitten and Young shared lead guitar on " Down by the River ...