Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - 1969 - 180g Vinyl - Official Release Series 4 Disc Box - 2009

Neil Young's second solo album, 1969's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere cracked the Top 40, went platinum and included three of his most beloved songs, "Cinnamon Girl" and the nearly 10-minute epics "Down By The River" and "Cowgirl In The Sand." The album also introduced his associated band, Crazy Horse.

Released just four months after Young's solo and self-titled debut, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is a much more confident, less-restrained, livelier set. Much of the credit for that style change of course goes to Crazy Horse, the Los Angles trio previously known as The Rockets of Danny Whitten (guitar), Ralph Molina (drums) and Billy Talbot (bass). The band fuels Young on a looser, guitar-heavy approach.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere went Gold within a year-and-a-half of its release and has since gone Platinum.

Track listing
01 - Cinnamon Girl
02 - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
03 - Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
04 - Down By The River
05 - The Losing End (When You're On)
06 - Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
07 - Cowgirl In The Sand


Personnel
Neil Young: guitar, vocal
Danny Whitten: guitar, vocal
Billy Talbot: bass
Ralph Molina: drums, vocal
and
Robin Lane: vocal
Bobby Notkoff: violin

Recorded at Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, Jan. & Mar. 1969
Produced by David Briggs & Neil Young
Released on May 14, 1969


Recording Procedure
Recorded using a Linn Sondek LP12 turntable,
Origin Live power supply,
Linn Ittok LVII tonearm,
Goldring 1042 MM Cartridge,
into Graham Slee Gram Amp 2 Special Edition Phono Stage
Chord Cobra 3 Interconnect
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