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The lyrics to "Danger Bird" reflect the disintegration of Young's relationship with Carrie Snodgress. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Some of the lyrics, including the lines "'Cause you've been with another man/There you are and here I am," were originally written for an unreleased song titled "L.A. Girls and Ocean Boys" that was inspired by a trip Young ...
Neil Percival Young OC OM [1] [2] (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American [3] singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield.
After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by the Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in September 1970 on Reprise Records.It is one of four high-profile solo albums released by the members of folk rock group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.
"High Flying Bird" (sometimes "High Flyin' Bird") is a song written by American folk and country singer-songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler, and first recorded by Judy Henske in 1963. It was performed and recorded by many musicians and groups in the mid and late 1960s, and was influential on the folk rock genre.
The song has received criticism for its lyrics, including "The heat was hot"; "There were plants, and birds, and rocks, and things"; and "'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain." [18] According to an anecdote from Robert Christgau, Randy Newman dismissed "A Horse with No Name" as a "song about a kid who thinks he's taken acid". [19] [20]
During one of the times that Young had left the band, he booked a studio to record the song with outside musicians under the impression that it would be for a Neil Young solo project rather than for Buffalo Springfield. [4] Producer Jack Nitzsche provided the orchestral arrangement featuring a string section plus an English horn. The song does ...
On 4 Way Street, Young says, "Here is a new song, it's guaranteed to bring you right down, it's called 'Don't Let It Bring You Down'. It sorta starts off real slow and then fizzles out altogether." It sorta starts off real slow and then fizzles out altogether."
"Pocahontas" is a song written by Neil Young that was first released on his 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. The song has also been covered by Johnny Cash , Everclear , Emily Loizeau , Crash Vegas , Gillian Welch , Trampled By Turtles , and Ian McNabb .