![]() ![]() Young made the decision to start recording that evening. Young had a batch of new songs that he had been performing on the road, as seen by the repertoire on Live at Massey Hall 1971, and told Mazer that all he needed was a bass player, drummer, and pedal steel guitarist. ![]() Young admired the work of the local studio musicians known as Area Code 615 who had recorded there and was interested. Mazer had opened Quadrafonic Sound Studios in Nashville, and invited Young to dinner (or breakfast according to another Mazer interview) on Saturday, 6 February, to convince him to record his next project at the studio. Young arrived in Nashville in early February 1971 to perform on a broadcast of the Johnny Cash Show where Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor would also appear. The story is told in an article in Acoustic Guitar Magazine, which includes interviews with the producer, Elliot Mazer, among others. The recording of the remainder of Harvest was notable for the spontaneous and serendipitous way it came together. "The Needle and the Damage Done" was taken from a live solo performance at UCLA on January 30, 1971. ( September 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there." Īccording to a note posted on Young's official website on May 1, 2019, much of Harvest "was written about or for Carrie Snodgress, a wonderful actress and person and Zeke Young’s mother." Recording Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. He would later write that the record "put me in the middle of the road. The album's success caught Young off guard and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. ![]() They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue." "Words (Between the Lines of Age)", the last song on the album, featured a lengthy guitar workout with the band. I don't like my words when I listen to it. Young later wrote of "Alabama" in his autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, saying it "richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. Other songs returned to some usual Young themes: " The Needle and the Damage Done" was a lament for great artists who had been addicted to heroin, including Crazy Horse bandmate Danny Whitten "Alabama" was "an unblushing rehash of ' Southern Man'" to which American southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote their 1973 hit " Sweet Home Alabama" in reply, stating "I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern Man don't need him around, anyhow". The record was a massive hit, producing a US number one single in "Heart of Gold". Background Īfter the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young went their separate ways in 1970, Young recruited a group of country session musicians (which he christened The Stray Gators) and recorded a country rock record, Harvest. In 2015, Harvest was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The album has since remained Neil Young's signature album as well as his best selling. It was the best-selling album of 1972 in the United States. 31 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and " Heart of Gold", which reached No. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks, and spawned two hit singles, " Old Man", which peaked at No. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks and vocals by guests David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, and James Taylor. Harvest is the fourth studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released on February 1, 1972, by Reprise Records, catalogue number MS 2032. " Old Man" / " The Needle and the Damage Done". ![]()
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