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The song title and lyrics reference the Crux constellation, known as the Southern Cross. Billboard called the song a "midtempo minor-keyed saga very much in the tradition of [Stills'] earlier CSN and solo compositions." [7] The term "minor-keyed" presumably related to the song's bittersweet lyrics, as the song itself is performed in a major key.
According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide critic Mark Kemp, "Ophelia" is one of three songs on Northern Lights – Southern Cross, along with "Acadian Driftwood" and "It Makes No Difference," on which "Robertson reclaims his reputation as one of rock's great songwriters."
Northern Lights – Southern Cross is the sixth studio album by Canadian-American rock band the Band, released in November 1975. It was the first album to be recorded at their new California studio, Shangri-La , and the first album of all new material since 1971's Cahoots .
The 1952-53 NBC Television Series Victory At Sea contained a musical number entitled "Beneath the Southern Cross". "Southern Cross" is a single released by Crosby, Stills and Nash in 1981. It reached #18 on Billboard Hot 100 in late 1982. "The Sign of the Southern Cross" is a song released by Black Sabbath in 1981.
He learned to play the violin, and later clarinet, saxophone and guitar. [7] He attended Amarillo college but dropped out to play drums with his first band, The Cinders. His first recordings were made with The Cinders at the nearby Norman Petty Studios in Clovis, New Mexico. The band's first 45 rpm record was released on the RIC label in 1965.
He gained national recognition in 1968 when Rolling Stone described him as “a 130lb cross-eyed albino with long fleecy hair playing some of the gutsiest fluid blues guitar you have ever heard ...
The line "I'm going where the Southern crosses the Yellow Dog" is a reference to the earliest known blues lyric. At a train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi in 1903, W. C. Handy heard a Black man playing a blues song on a steel guitar using a knife as a slide. The man repeatedly sang the phrase, "Goin’ where the Southern cross’ the Dog ...
"Guinnevere" is a song written by David Crosby in 1968. [1] The song appears on Crosby, Stills & Nash's critically acclaimed eponymous debut album.The song is notable for its serene yet pointed melody and its unique lyrics, which compare Queen Guinevere to the object of the singer's affection, referred to as "m'lady".