Neil Young: ~ Cowgirl in the Sand ~ 1976 Budokan Japan: unRELeAsed. ~vIDeo~ Great guitar work

The visuals were saved and uploaded incorrectly on this video before I was hip to how the program I was using worked. But the version of this song is OUTSTANDING IMO.

"Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) is Neil Young's second solo album and his first with backing band Crazy Horse. The album was produced by Neil Young and David Briggs and contains three of his most memorable songs: "Cinnamon Girl", "Down by the River", and "Cowgirl in the Sand", the last two of which were written when Young had a 103 °F (39.5 °C) fever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. After the Buffalo Springfield imploded, Neil Young recorded his first, eponymous solo album, an elaborately overdubbed affair that cast him in the role of brooding singer-songwriter. But soon after that record was released, in January 1969, Young began jamming in Los Angeles with a band called the Rockets, redubbed Crazy Horse, and started a relationship that would change guitar rock forever and form the foundation of his career. If Neil Young had an aura of careful subtlety bordering on tentativeness, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere felt raw, rushed, energized. Indeed, Young dashed off the album's three central songs -- "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" -- in a single fever-addled afternoon, and Young and the band play with an almost reckless disregard for prettiness, precision, clarity.... On the epics that end each album side, "Down by the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand," Young and Whitten circle, prod and light into each other like boxers in a sweaty fifteen-round match, the notes stabbing in and out, answering each other in short staccato bursts while the rhythm section stolidly keeps things from flying apart. The quartet's interplay is at once primitive and abstract, more suggestive of Ornette Coleman's fractured free jazz than the jam-band psychedelia that was the prevailing West Coast fad at the time. Some listeners found it crude, but the gloriously spontaneous sound forged on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere would endure, not only as a blueprint for Young and Crazy Horse (even after Frank "Pancho" Sampedro replaced Whitten, who died of a drug overdose in 1972) but as an influence on countless bands, from Sonic Youth to Son Volt." GREG KOT

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[BetterTasteThanU]

what a sappy ass hippie piece of garbage

[curiousgeorge555]

@BetterTasteThanU Thank you!!! I trust you have much better taste than the 92,000 plus viewers and myself! I commend you my friend!!! You are one crafty, cool, far out, all around great guy!

[steelers453]

i like city and colour's cover way better

[curiousgeorge555]

@steelers453 No one can do Neil Young songs like Neil Young. No one can play Cowgirls like Neil Young. He is untouchable with this song. Other versions he has done are better than this IMHO. If city and colours floats your boat that is cool. We who have known Neil for decades would (most of us) politely not agree with you that anyone can top him with 99% or more of His songs. People can do justice to some of his stuff. Not many though.

[stewartakaryan]

@curiousgeorge555  testify!!!!!!

[curiousgeorge555]

@stewartakaryan Amen! (-;

[EvangelineEvangeline]

I could hear this song one hundred times in a row and never get sick of it.

Love reading the stories of ya all's Neil moments lol!

Love the vid CG!

[yojoeflow]

@steelers453 that is because you are a pussy, and u call your self a steelers fan..... just listened to the song on the sidebar b/c of your comment.... hipster fag music

[wellspout]

impossible to duplicate the master

[jackstpaul]

@coltkitt Your point? Neil, often in those days--and many live musicians--are high on various things when they perform. Neil, when he performs live, long solos like this, pushes the envelope with improvising. His style is to go out on a ledge. It's real easy to go out and play your note-for-note solo night after night just as you did in your 35 second solo on record. This is Neil's style live, esp. certain songs like this. Jerry, too, gave Deadheads what they wanted to hear, sloppy as it was.

[alargedog]

one of my favs when i was growing up,but no way to post the study version i guess

[StevenBradleyScott]

@curiousgeorge555

I agree that the City and Colour version of Cowgirl isn't as good. The reason, I think, is that Neil has a lot of strain and pain in his voice. It's like it sounds too easy when Dallas Green does it, you know? Just my opinion.

[CosmosOfBeauty]

Live at The Filmore East, 1970 has; by far the best version of "Cowgirl In the Sand".

[coltkitt]

Like most "musicians" who think they`re better than they are, Neil sounds way better with the help of a studio where they can dub over, re-do, filter and make their music palatable to the ear. Way too many musicians use poetic license to try and impress people and most of it makes me sick to my stomach. I`ve walked out of more than a few concerts since 1965 trying to listen to some of the bullshit these musicians called music, including Neil`s.

[SuperDarylg]

city and color should not even try this!