Heart of Gold: Neil Young
I can't believe it was 1972 when Harvest was released!
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June 24, 2010 at 12:56 pm
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June 25, 2010 at 10:44 am
This and the song “Old Man” are 2 of my
fav-o-rite songs off this album.
I’ve always been a Neil fan ever since his stint Buffalo Springfield.
June 25, 2010 at 11:54 am
Morpfy,
I love this whole album.
June 24, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Some thoughts:
Young wrote this in 1971 after he suffered a back injury that made it impossible for him to play the electric guitar. He recorded some mellow tracks with an acoustic guitar when he was in Nashville to appear on Johnny Cash’s variety show, and used local session musicians for the other instruments.
James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt sang backup. They don’t come in until the end of the song.The song was taped during the initial sessions for Harvest in early 1971 at Quadrafonic Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Ronstadt and Taylor were in Nashville at the time for an appearance on Johnny Cash’s television program, and the album’s producer Elliot Mazer arranged for them to sing backup for Young in the studio.
Young: “This song put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch.A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there”
In 1985, Bob Dylan admitted that he hated this song, despite always liking Neil Young:
The only time it bothered me that someone sounded like me was when I was living in Phoenix, Arizona, in about ’72 and the big song at the time was “Heart of Gold.” I used to hate it when it came on the radio. I always liked Neil Young, but it bothered me every time I listened to “Heart of Gold.” I think it was up at number one for a long time, and I’d say, “Shit, that’s me. If it sounds like me, it should as well be me.”
n 2005, “Heart of Gold” was named the third greatest Canadian song of all time on the CBC Radio One
June 25, 2010 at 4:49 pm
sblake,
I’m chuckling about Dylan. I never knew that, and Young’s voice never reminded me of Dylan. Now I’ll have to listen again with that in mind. I like the whole Harvest album.