Perfect song (I): Old Man
"Old Man", recorded by Neil Young in 1972 appeared on his acclaimed album "Harvest" album recorded in Nashville with renowned musicians sitting in the city. It seems clear that the experience of Bob Dylan with the musicians from the Country to record his "Nashville Skyline" was decisive in that Young was decided to try fortune there.
After "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (1969), his first album with Crazy Horse, the situation of Neil Young and his group was somewhat uncertain, had serious drug problems within the band and when Young called Danny Whitten for recording his next album clearly saw that I could not count on him and sent him home. Whitten died a short time later of an overdose.
"Old Man" was the second single extracted from "Harvest" but did not reach far from the commercial success of "Heart Of Gold", the most recognizable theme of this record and perhaps the entire discography of Neil Young. "Old Man" is about, or rather is directed to the old guardian of the ranch that Young bought by that time, a ranch that served to isolate the media environment created around it and to rethink her career after the success of Buffalo Springfield and of his first solo sorties.
"Old Man" and "Heart Of Gold" was recorded in the same weekend in our first meetings at which gathered a group composed of Tim Drummond on bass, Kenny Buttrey on drums and Ben Keith on pedal steel , But Young also called for the early shots to Linda Rondstadt and James Taylor, who was assigned a six-string banjo that had not ever played, with both musicians agreed on the agenda of Johnny Cash.
"Old Man" was recorded at virtually the first, with all the musicians playing live, the theme begins with a peculiar feature and Young's acoustic intro to this rasgéo rough and delicate at once, almost hitting the strings, with a simple Chord progression that after the first verse gives way to banjo and pedal steel offering the notes that the song just for the flight to lift such a perfect entrance to the chorus.
This song sums up better than any other side "kind" of Neil Young, his acoustic side, always close to the folk and country music song is a tremendously warm, perfect in its simplicity and the precision with which all the pieces fit together, an item that smells of grass and wood. A theme simply perfect.
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