Tag: neil-young

Heart of Gold, by Neil Young.

This song feels like one I knew before I knew Neil Young, but later, before Harvest Moon, my route into his stuff was probably one variation or the other of Hey Hey My My — and I feel like I might’ve read that in a book? Hunter Thompson, maybe? Honestly not sure.

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Back in the home studio, but in a hurry to watch a soccer game and drove 8 hours home from the beach, so, like, no multi-track harmonica solos or anything tonight. Oh, and I used the ringlight/phone stand that started this all as a Christmas present, with the on-the-road method of uploading straight from my phone (after minor editing) to YouTube and mashing out this post on my laptop. (The laptop is not necessary, it just cuts down on the iPhone copy/paste routine, which is still a pain in the year 2021.)

From Hank to Hendrix, by Neil Young.

The Harvest Moon album came out near the beginning of my junior year of high school, when I was fresh off a climactic finale to the summer camp experience of my formative years and… yeah it sounds like the soundtrack to some big life change because it is!

This song was an early favorite of mine, and there are lines in it that still make me feel like an old man taking a look at my life, even if I was 16 then, and in the grand scheme of things, I’m not much older now. Does Neil Young make us all talk in clichés? Maybe. But maybe it’s alright to cheese it up sometimes for the greater good, isn’t it? Maybe.

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Extra vocals, extra guitars, but I really need to do harmonica songs before the kids go to bed.