Song Quote of the Day
A few weeks before the people who would found Crazy Horse (as yet unnamed), Danny, Billy, Ralphie, and me, got together in my Topanga living room, I had been sick with the flu, holed up in bed in the house. Susan was bringing me soup and good stuff, but I still felt like shit. I was delirious half the time and had an odd metallic taste in my mouth. It was peculiar. At the height of this sickness, I felt pretty high in a strange way. I had a guitar in a case near the bed—probably too near the bed in the opinion of most of the women I had relationships with. I took it out and started playing; I had left it in a tuning I was fond of, D modal, with the E strings both tuned down to D. It provided a drone sound, sort of like a sitar, but not really. I played for a while and wrote “Cinnamon Girl.” The lyrics were different from how the song eventually ended up, but all those changes happened right there, immediately, until the song was complete. Then I took the guitar out of D modal and kept playing. At the time, there was a song in E minor on the radio that I liked, “Sunny” or something like that. I remembered hearing it in the drugstore at Fairfax and Sunset while I was shopping for something to ease the flu. The song kept looping in my head, endlessly, like some things do when I’m sick and maybe a little delirious. So I started playing it on the guitar, and then I changed the chords a bit—and it turned into “Down by the River.” I was still feeling sick, but happy and high. It was a unique feeling. I had two brand-new songs! Totally different from the last album! Then I started playing in A minor, one of my favorite keys. I had nothing to lose. I was on a roll. The music just flowed naturally that afternoon, and soon I had written “Cowgirl in the Sand.” This was pretty unique, to write three songs in one sitting, and I am pretty sure that my semi-delirious state had a lot to do with that. Neil Young Waging Heavy Peace Sept 2012
Session:March 11, 1969
Wally Heider Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA
Artist:Crosby, Stills & Nash
Long Time Gone
Ohio/Long Time Gone Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young July 1, 1970
Celebration Copy Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young June 1, 1971
Album: Déjà Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

March 11, 1970
Atlantic Records SD 7200
10 tracks
Concert: March 11, 1976
Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan

w/ Crazy Horse
Live Recording:
Cortez The Killer
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Country Home
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Cowgirl In The Sand
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Don't Cry No Tears
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Heart Of Gold
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Let It Shine
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Lotta Love
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Mellow My Mind
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Southern Man
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Too Far Gone
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Session:March 11, 1998
Redwood Digital, Broken Arrow Ranch, CA
Artist:Neil Young
Good To See You
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Session:March 11, 1998
Redwood Digital, Broken Arrow Ranch, CA
Artist:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Slowpoke
Looking Forward Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young October 26, 1999

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