Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Vinyl) Japanese Pressing
Reprise Records (1969 / This Pressing 1971)

1 review for Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Vinyl) Japanese Pressing
Reprise Records (1969 / This Pressing 1971)

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   5 out of 5

   AMG – August 3, 2016

   Breathtakingly different when it appeared in May 1969, both for Young and for rock in general. Neil Young's second solo album was nearly a total rejection of that polished effort. Though a couple of songs, "Round Round (It Won't Be Long)" and "The Losing End (When You're On)," shared that album's country-folk style, they were altogether livelier and more assured. While Neil Young was a solo effort, 'EKTIN' marked the beginning of Young's recording association with Crazy Horse. With them, Young quickly cut a set of loose, guitar-heavy rock songs -- "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" -- that redefined him as a rock & roll artist. Young lowered his voice from the near-falsetto employed on his debut to a more expressive range, and he sang with greater confidence, accompanied by Whitten and, on "Round Round," by Robin Lane. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was breathtakingly different when it appeared in May 1969, both for Young and for rock in general, becoming a gold album, and it has since gone platinum. And it set a musical pattern Young and his many musical descendants have followed ever since; almost 30 years later, he was still playing this sort of music with Crazy Horse, and a lot of contemporary bands were playing music clearly influenced by it.