Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0316 Neil Young: Oh Lonesome Me (1970) Writer: | Don Gibson Producer: | Neil Young, David Briggs, Kendall Pacios Label: | Reprise Album: | After the Gold Rush (1970) While Neil Young credited a trippy, unproduced screenplay by actor Dean Stockwell and Captain Beefheart collaborator Herb Berman as the inspiration for most of the original songs on his opus After the Gold Rush, this standout track was a cover from a more conventional source. Penned by country hitmaker Don Gibson, “Oh Lonesome Me” effectively mines that rich vein of honkytonk music. Building on a foundation laid by Hank Williams’s classic “Lovesick Blues,” Gibson takes loneliness to the next level, with the singer essentially declaring himself the most forlorn individual on earth. While Gibson rendered the song in a rollicking, “to hell with it all” manner, Young instead sounds the depths of the lyric, slowing things to a deliciously dolorous crawl. Backing Young here was the band Crazy Horse, whom he had used on his previous solo album, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere. But because of guitarist Danny Whitten’s drug addiction, only three tracks with the group made it to After the Gold Rush. Whitten was later kicked out of the band and died of an overdose in 1972. Young lamented his demise on 1973’s Tonight’s the Night (released in 1975). Amazingly, Rolling Stone panned After the Gold Rush on its release in a scathing review by Langdon Winner. Thankfully, Winner later abandoned rock criticism for a career as a professor of political science. youtu.be/y2jzNtrKkp8
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