Harvest (50th Anniversary)

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Young engaged in a solo acoustic tour in North America and the United Kingdom in January and February 1971. During the tour, he played several new songs inspired by life on his new ranch or the beginnings of his romantic relationship with Carrie Snodgress. Several of the shows were recorded for potential release as a live album. Young arrived in Nashville in early February 1971 to perform on an episode of the Johnny Cash Show. Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor were also slated to appear on the broadcast. In September of 1971, Neil Young took Graham Nash out on his lake in a rowboat and blasted his new album, Harvest. He’d wired his Northern California ranch house as the left speaker and a barn as the right speaker; as the record played, his producer, Elliot Mazer, ran down to the shore to ask how it sounded. “More barn!” Young famously yelled. Poncho is huge. Poncho is a strong player, and he’s a great player. He’s heavy, his chords. He and I play the same thing sometimes, so it sounds like this guitar from somewhere else, because we play the same notes at the same time. It’s very simple, but it’s huge. What Nils has is a lot of finesse. He really listens, and he’s incredibly adept at moving around on his instruments, no matter what they are. But he’s a great musician, world class. On this record, you get to hear Nils Lofgren. You get to hear all the detail. It’s not that much else going on. It’s Crazy Horse, pretty simple. So you get to appreciate him for who he is [and] what he brings. Oh, it’s beautiful. She sings so great. It may be the highlight of everything I’ve done with Nicolette. I wish it had come out a long time ago, but I didn’t even listen to it until about three months ago. Neil was very specific about what he wanted. When Neil Young plays a song, his body language dictates everything about the arrangement. Neil sat in the control room of Quadrafonic and played "Heart Of Gold". Kenny and I looked at each other, and we both knew it was a number one record. We heard the song and all we had to do was move Neil into the studio and get the band out there, start the machine and make it sound good. It was incredible!" [25]

I located this group of songs through some questions asked by people who would write me letters at the Archives, and they are very helpful. These are the soul of the Archives community — these people who write letters and talk about things that they remember, because I can go into the Archives and find things and make them come to life, these memories that people bring out. So I found Summer Songs, there’s four albums that it’s from. These songs are real early, and they weren’t heard again for years. That’s how that ends, and there’s 11 albums in between it. It’s crazy. Daryl puts a lot of humor into the Barn documentary, from capturing the band singing about cold beer to a scene where you take a leak. What makes her great as a filmmaker? Because Sound Matters, Retrieved September 15, 2010". becausesoundmatters.com. Archived from the original on November 14, 2009. [ dead link]

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Elliot Mazer: Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, Janis Joplin. Bren Davies. July/August 2009. Tapeop.com. Accessed November 15, 2023. https://tapeop.com/interviews/72/elliot-mazer/. Neil Young’s Harvest – in Depth. 2017. Long Live Vinyl. June 2, 2017. https://longlivevinyl.net/2017/06/02/classic-album-neil-young-harvest/. Italian album certifications – Neil Young – Harvest" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved November 13, 2019. Select "2015" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Harvest" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione". To clarify, the vinyl box is 2LP+7″+2DVD, while the CD box is 3CD+2DVD. Both sets come with a poster and a hardcover book which includes never-before-seen photos along with extensive sleeve notes by photographer Joel Bernstein. Editors’ Note: Representatives for Farm Aid reached out after this story’s publication to note that the concert took place in September “safely and successfully with no COVID-19 transmissions traced to the event.”]

Recorded at Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville, 4/15/1971. Produced by Elliot Mazer & Neil Young. a b c McDonough, Jim (2002). Shakey: Neil Young's Biography. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-06914-4. Neil Young – guitar, harmonica, vocal; Teddy Irwin – guitar; Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar; Tim Drummond – bass; Kenny Buttrey – drums; Linda Ronstadt – vocal; James Taylor – vocal All runout details are hand etched. The faintly inscribed "geometric" marks (e.g. '1+' and '1V') are mirrored. Dance Dance Dance [...] Recorded [...] at Quadraphonic, Nashville, TN, February 7, 1971 [...] Published by Broken Arrow Music (BMI) Previously unreleased version.

Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012 . Retrieved September 23, 2019. Even for fans who know just how conscientiously Neil Young has documented his activities across his entire career, the sheer wealth and detail of the footage that makes up the two-hour documentary accompanying the 50th-anniversary edition of Harvest is astonishing. Let’s get into the band. What do you see as the biggest differences in the sound between the Poncho [Sampedro] Crazy Horse and the Nils [Lofgren] Crazy Horse? American album certifications – Neil Young – Harvest". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 1 October 2012.