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.
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