Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Occupation
- Neil Young - guitar, vocals
- Crazy Horse: Danny Whitten - guitar
- Ralph Molina - drums
- Billy Talbot - bass guitar
Production
- Neil Young and David Briggs
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the first album by the Canadian rock musician Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse, who sometimes accompanied him to this day. At the same time it is the second solo album after the self -titled after him Neil Young, which he published. The RIAA awarded for this album platinum.
The rock and pop culture magazine Rolling Stone has the album in Germany 2004 set to place 134 of the 500 best albums of all time. The album follows the successful album Neil Young, Harvest ( at No. 33). It is of further albums in the top 500, which are due to him, Weld, Freedom, Zuma and Tonight's the Night.
While Neil Young recorded his first solo album, he came up with a West Coast band called the Rockets in contact with the drummer Ralph Molina worked for, as bassist Billy Talbot and guitarist Danny Whitten. He recognized the potential of this formation, which was subsequently renamed in Crazy Horse and recruited for the next studio album.
Within just two weeks, the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was realized. The album, which contains seven tracks, was compiled in the spirit of extensive instrumental passages. The best-known pieces are: Cinnamon Girl, which is perceived as powerful, edgy Riffrock plant, Down by the River and Cowgirl in the Sand, which provide rather play the guitar Young's in the foreground. This song is Young wrote in the diseased state with 39.5 ° C fever. The album overall is still very much on the West Coast folk-rock band the previous Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, affected. In the song Round & Round ( It Will not Be Long ) worked with Robin Lane, which later became known as a singer of the band Chartbusters.