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78-534: Former Crazy Horse rhythm guitarist Danny Whitten briefly joined the group in 1972 but was fired by Young due to his poor performance during tour rehearsals, precipitating his death from an accidental overdose immediately thereafter. While in Nashville to tape an episode of The Johnny Cash Show , Young was convinced to record some of his new tracks in Elliot Mazer 's Quadrafonic Sound Studios . Since it

156-496: A Neil Young concert. LoGerfo and Nelson discovered their shared love of rock music, particularly that of Young. Nelson soon quit school, and with LoGerfo, launched Promise of the Real. picking up Tato Melgar ( percussionist ), and Merlyn Kelly ( bassist ) According to Nelson, the band name was inspired by the lyric "Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real", from Young's song "Walk On". Nelson explained in

234-459: A 1974 interview and commencing a relationship with his former partner, actress Carrie Snodgress , they reconciled by 1986. Young reconvened The Stray Gators for his 1992 Harvest Moon album, with Spooner Oldham replacing Nitzsche on keyboards. Nitzsche, however, did arrange the strings on "Such a Woman", as he had done on Harvest . Crazy Horse (band) Crazy Horse is an American rock band best known for their association with

312-413: A 2013 finger injury: "It became painful for me to be on the road. When we were on that last tour [in 2014], I was rolling down the road with both of my hands in ice buckets and one foot in an ice bucket, every night. That's really not that much fun. Then I got my finger slammed in the door [on the 2013 European tour]. There were too many signs saying it was over for me. It wasn't for any other reason. [...] I

390-474: A Time . In 1978, Crazy Horse released Crazy Moon , their fourth original album. It features instrumental contributions from Young, Bobby Notkoff, Greg Leroy, and Michael Curtis . Before the album's release, the band joined Young on the autumn 1978 arena tour that served as both the basis of the live/studio album Rust Never Sleeps and the tour document Live Rust , both released in 1979 and credited to Neil Young & Crazy Horse. As Young spent much of

468-551: A U.S. No. 33 hit) despite his escalating heroin abuse. Young "fired" the group in the aftermath of the 1970 tour due to Whitten's addiction (partially attributable to his severe rheumatoid arthritis , for which he had previously received a medical discharge from the United States Navy ) following an incapacitated performance during the Fillmore East engagement. According to Molina, Whitten also felt that Young

546-583: A cover of Don Gibson's " Oh Lonesome Me " from the 1969 sessions. Even though Talbot's appearances on the album were confined to the Crazy Horse tracks, Molina was the project's main drummer (often performing in an ad hoc backing ensemble with emergent singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Nils Lofgren and CSNY bassist Greg Reeves on the non-Crazy Horse tracks), while Whitten continued to contribute backing vocals and guitar to several songs (including " Southern Man " and " Only Love Can Break Your Heart ",

624-463: A dream come true." Young was a mentor for the band, sharing wisdom and influencing everything from their production techniques to their distinctive stage presence. Nelson described playing with Neil as "like being in a masterclass, seeing how he works. I mean, it has really been an incredible experience for me that I have taken in and put towards our own projects, our own music in terms of what we have learned from him. Dynamics, and when not to play, and

702-406: A fatal overdose of alcohol and Valium . After Whitten's death and the tepid reception of their most recent albums, Talbot and Molina were left as the only members of the band. They let the Crazy Horse name go unused while resolving not to retire it altogether. In mid-1973, Young brought together a band comprising Talbot, Molina, Lofgren, and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith to record a new album,

780-536: A full fourth member contemporaneously, recording an album and touring with the ensemble in 1969 and 1970. When Young returned to his solo album in 1970, Crazy Horse found its participation more limited. The group as a whole appears on just three of the eleven tracks on After the Gold Rush , which was credited solely to Young upon its September 1970 release: " When You Dance I Can Really Love ", " I Believe in You ", and

858-599: A quick tour, bring 'em back and help us produce the next Rockets album. It took me a year and a half to realize that my band had been taken." Credited to Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was released in May 1969. During a 98-week chart stay, it peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard 200 in August 1970 after Young had come to greater prominence as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young . It included

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936-512: A series of five minimally advertised "open rehearsal" concerts in Fresno, California and Bakersfield, California , with the marquee reading "NYCH" (the band described by Young as the "Horse of a Different Color"). According to Young, "Life is an unfolding saga [...] Poncho is unable to join us right now but we all hope he will be back." In 2021, Sampedro confirmed that he had retired from music due to complications from arthritis in both wrists and

1014-698: A sixth album of its own in the mid-1990s, but left the project unfinished when Young called upon the group to join him for some secret club dates in California (for which the quartet billed themselves as the Echoes), leading to the recording of Broken Arrow . Crazy Horse remained on hiatus for seven years following the Greendale tour. Although Sampedro was employed as a full-time assistant to Kevin Eubanks on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2010,

1092-403: A unit after that tour, although Drummond and Keith continued to work individually with Young on subsequent projects. Thereafter, Nitzsche eschewed live performance in favor of a career as a prolific record producer and film scorer, culminating in the 1983 Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Up Where We Belong ". Although he was estranged from Young after castigating the singer-songwriter in

1170-618: A view toward including the guitarist in his new touring band, the Stray Gators. However, following his poor performance in rehearsals at Dress Review Sound Studio in Hollywood, the band pressured Young to dismiss him. Although Young let Whitten live on his ranch near Woodside, California and worked with him one-on-one during off-hours in an unsuccessful effort to keep him in the group, Young fired him and Whitten died several hours later after returning to Los Angeles, his death attributed to

1248-457: A wider range of instrumentation than their previous studio recordings. In April 2012, they appeared on Bob Weir's TRI Studios broadcast on Yahoo Music . Later that year, they backed John Fogerty on his coast-to-coast tour of Canada The band continued to open shows for Willie Nelson, and performed a cover of Pearl Jam 's "Just Breathe" live on Willie's Roadhouse channel on Sirius XM on May 15, 2012. They consistently performed each year at

1326-528: Is deeply rooted in the Farm Aid festival. His father, Young and John Mellencamp launched the Farm Aid music festival in 1985. Lukas and Promise of the Real were regularly appearing at the event by 2009, the year Young remarked to them "I heard you guys earlier, I liked it. You sound pretty cool." At the 2014 Farm Aid event, Young spontaneously called the band up to play along with him on a jam of "Rockin' in

1404-535: The Indigo Girls , Pegi Young , and Rod Stewart . Following the commercial failure of Crazy Horse , Lofgren and Nitzsche left the group to resume their solo careers; meanwhile, Whitten's drug problems pushed Talbot and Molina to dismiss him and turn to outside musicians. The band released two albums ( Loose and At Crooked Lake ) on different labels to critical and commercial failure in 1972; along with Talbot and Molina, guitarist/singer-songwriter Greg Leroy

1482-571: The Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) sessions at Shangri-La and Village Studios. On April 28, 2021, the band announced their next studio album release on Fantasy Records , A Few Stars Apart , accompanied by the first single released from the album, "Perennial Bloom (Back to You)". Available June 11, 2021, the album was recorded at RCA Studio A in Nashville and Produced by Dave Cobb . On July 14, 2023, their eighth studio album, Sticks and Stones ,

1560-635: The 2019 interview, "That concept of realness is sort of a Taoist statement: It's not bad, it's not good. It's real." Their initial touring was supported by sales of their EP, Live Beginnings , recorded in 2008 at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, California. By January 2009, they were on the road with Willie Nelson , a trip that included five nights of shows at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California. Later that year, they shared

1638-559: The Alchemy Tour throughout 2012 and 2013 in support of both albums, traveling to the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. In 2013, Talbot, Molina, George Whitsell, and lead vocalist/guitarist Ryan James Holzer formed Wolves. They released their first recording, Wolves EP , on February 16, 2014. With the addition of background singers Dorene Carter and YaDonna West, Young and Crazy Horse toured Europe in

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1716-626: The Americana Radio Chart the week of November 10, 2017. Compared to their previous albums, Nelson described this one as having "a little more emotional weight to the songs and even to the quality of the recording. It’s more cinematic." They released three singles from the album, "Find Yourself", "Carolina", and "Forget About Georgia". Austin City Limits wrote that the album was "a mesmerizing, emotionally genuine, endlessly rewarding slice of cosmic country soul". The album earned

1794-535: The Free World" and he recruited them to be his recording and touring band. In 2015, Young brought them into his studio to record his next album, The Monsanto Years , released in 2016. The album production was filmed by Don Hannah for a documentary also entitled The Monsanto Years . After an April 2015 concert with Young in San Luis Obispo , they accompanied him on his Rebel Content Tour to promote

1872-502: The Horse," it features a line-up of Young, Talbot, Molina, Lofgren and Nelson. In April 2024, Neil Young and Crazy Horse launched the acclaimed North America-based Love Earth Tour under the aegis of Young, Talbot, Molina and Nelson. On June 26, the remaining dates of the tour were cancelled due to unspecified illnesses in the band. The self-titled debut album was re-issued on CD in 1994. In 2005, Rhino Records ' Handmade division released

1950-460: The October 1969 addition of frequent Young collaborator Jack Nitzsche on electric piano , in early 1970. The latter tour was showcased on the 2006 album Live at the Fillmore East . Young would later say that "[on] some of the stuff, Nitzsche was in the way, tonally... Crazy Horse was so good with the two guitars, bass and drums it didn't need anything else." Although Nitzsche openly disdained

2028-581: The Psyrcle) in San Francisco on Lorna Records (a subsidiary of Autumn Records ) ; however, it did not sell very well either regionally or nationally. Back in Los Angeles, the group evolved over the course of several years into the Rockets , a psychedelic pop / folk rock ensemble that juxtaposed the rudimentary instrumental abilities of Whitten (rhythm guitar), Talbot (bass) and Molina (drums) against

2106-402: The Real was released as their debut under Fantasy Records . Produced by John Alagía , the album featured two additional musicians Jesse Siebenberg (steel guitars, Farfisa organ, vocals), and Alberto Bof (piano, Wurlitzer , and Hammond organ). Lady Gaga appeared on two tracks ("Find Yourself" and "Carolina"), and the indie-pop group Lucius provided backing vocals. The album hit No. 1 on

2184-587: The Real , replaced Lofgren. The band's origins date to 1963 and the Los Angeles-based a cappella doo-wop group Danny & the Memories , which consisted of lead singer Danny Whitten and supporting vocalists Lou Bisbal (soon to be replaced by Benjamin Rocco, the husband of actress Lorna Maitland ), Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina. Sly Stone produced a single for the group (by then re-christened

2262-523: The Real , sometimes referred to as POTR , is an American country rock band formed in Los Angeles in 2008 by Lukas Nelson. The band consists of Lukas Nelson (lead vocals, songwriter, acoustic and electric guitars, piano), Anthony LoGerfo (drums, percussion), Corey McCormick (bass guitar, upright bass, vocals), Logan Metz (keyboards, lap steel, banjo, harmonica, vocals), and Tato Melgar (percussion). They have released eight studio albums. two live albums, numerous singles and extended plays (EP). Outside of

2340-490: The Rockets soon re-connected with Neil Young , whom they had met two years earlier during the early days of Buffalo Springfield . In August 1968, three months after Buffalo Springfield dissolved, Young played with the group during a Rockets performance at the Whisky a Go Go ; Molina would later recall that Young's idiosyncratically distinctive guitar style "blew George Whitsell's away. He was kind of overshadowed." Shortly after

2418-533: The Tidal Tone label. Neil Young has greatly influenced them, in both their music style and production values and at his urging, sessions being recorded in analog. Nelson believes doing so "added a lot of magnetism and energy [and] sounds more like what you get when you see us perform." Wasted co-producer, Jim "Moose" Brown (musician/songwriter/producer), arranged addition of steel guitar, harmonica, Dobro guitar, Wurtlitzer piano, and Hammond B3 organ bringing

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2496-582: The U.S. No. 55 pop hit " Cinnamon Girl "; the extended, jam-driven " Down by the River " and " Cowgirl in the Sand "; and a panoply of country and folk-influenced songs exemplified by the spare title track and "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)," a florid tribute to the defunct band that featured a guest appearance by Notkoff. Crazy Horse toured clubs with Young throughout the first half of 1969 and, following

2574-489: The US, Promise of the Real came into view as the backing band for Canadian musician Neil Young , with whom they recorded three studio albums (including a film soundtrack) and two live albums. On June 3, 2024, POTR announced an indefinite hiatus, with plans to continue to collaborate in the future. In 2008, not long after moving from Maui to Los Angeles , Lukas Nelson ( Willie Nelson 's son) met fellow musician Anthony LoGerfo at

2652-426: The United States. Loose was also re-issued as a stand-alone CD by Wounded Bird in 2006. The Australian re-issue specialty label Raven Records put out Crazy Moon in 1999 with seven rare bonus tracks, as well as a 20-track retrospective in 2005, Gone Dead Train: The Best of Crazy Horse 1971–1989 , featuring material from each of the group's five albums, with the exception of its second one, Loose . Left for Dead

2730-731: The album Life (1987). Immediately thereafter, Young included all three members of Crazy Horse in a horn-augmented ensemble, the Bluenotes, and toured clubs in the fall of 1987. But when Talbot and Molina proved ill-suited to a blues-oriented approach, Young replaced them while retaining Sampedro, who would remain with Young in various band permutations over the next two years. During this period, Talbot and Molina hired former Rain Parade lead guitarist Matt Piucci and recruited Sonny Mone from Hanover, Massachusetts to provide lead vocals and rhythm guitar. With seven songs by Mone, this incarnation of

2808-521: The album having joined the band in 2009. The album consists of twelve tracks, three of which are covers: "Peaceful Solution" ( Willie Nelson ), "Pali Gap/Hey Baby" ( Jimi Hendrix ) and "L.A." ( Neil Young ). An interview with LoGerfo revealed that the art for the album was created by the six-year old daughter of album engineer Steve Chadie . The release includes a booklet of Micah Nelson's paintings created on stage during their concerts. Two more albums, Wasted and Live Endings , were released in 2012 under

2886-409: The album with Bruce Botnick ) and added Lofgren as a second guitarist; singer-songwriter and guitarist Ry Cooder also sat in on three tracks at the behest of Nitzsche to substitute for the ailing Whitten. Although the album peaked at only No. 84 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1971, Whitten's " I Don't Want to Talk About It " would later be covered by a wide range of artists, including Geoff Muldaur ,

2964-551: The band continued to rehearse several times a year and more intermittently with Young during this period. Trick Horse —based on previously unreleased Crazy Horse recordings, possibly derived from older Sampedro-funded sessions where session musicians were hired to play the instrumental parts—was released on iTunes in 2009. According to Young in a 2011 interview with American Songwriter , "They have to be together before I can be together with them. They haven't been doing anything together, so they need to be able to do it. I don't have

3042-521: The band its first Americana Music Awards nomination for Duo/Group of the Year. Their 2016 performance with Neil Young at the Desert Trip turned out to be a significant appearance for the band. Actor Bradley Cooper , who was working on development of the major film A Star Is Born , happened to be in the audience and Nelson's stage presence impressed Cooper as an ideal model for the leading role of

3120-501: The band recorded the pointedly-titled Left for Dead , released in 1989. The split with Sampedro and Young proved relatively short-lived, as the duo reunited with Talbot and Molina under the name Crazy Horse in 1990 for the acclaimed album Ragged Glory and for a tour in 1991 that generated the live album Weld and the sound collage Arc . Over the next 12 years, Crazy Horse would steadily collaborate with Young, joining him for Sleeps with Angels (1994), Broken Arrow (1996),

3198-463: The band released the shelved album Toast (retaining Sampedro's guitar parts) and later the same year they released a third album with Lofgren in the lineup, World Record . In 2023, the members of Crazy Horse released All Roads Lead Home , a compilation comprising primarily solo recordings made during the COVID-19 pandemic . Young contributed a live version of a Crazy Horse song, and the collection

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3276-497: The band spontaneously reconvened without Keith at Talbot's Echo Park home in 1975. These jam sessions cemented the role of rhythm guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro, a friend of Talbot who began to play with the group during the Chicago sessions and would go on to be a long-time member of Crazy Horse. "It was great," Talbot would say of the gathering and the chemistry it evoked. "We were all soaring. Neil loved it. We all loved it. It

3354-543: The band that year. The cover art for the album was a painting by Nelson's younger brother, Micah Nelson, an artist, composer and musician whose artwork appears on several of the band's other albums as well. In March 2010, they released their first studio album, Promise of the Real , recorded at the Pedernales Recording Studio in Austin, Texas. Bassist Corey McCormick, Kelly's replacement, appears on

3432-408: The club collaboration, Young enlisted Whitten, Talbot, and Molina to back him on his second solo album. Although all parties initially envisaged the Rockets continuing as a separate project, the older band soon folded due to Young's insistence on having his new backing trio keep to a strict practice schedule. According to George Whitsell, "My understanding was Neil was gonna use the guys for a record and

3510-464: The eighties pursuing his most experimental work to date, Crazy Horse recorded with him more sporadically after the critically disparaged 1981 album Re·ac·tor . The band began to record Trans (1982) before Young designated the project as a solo album, and a 1984 album was abandoned after their performances were dubbed by Young and Briggs as subpar. Following sporadic performances in 1984 and 1985, Neil Young & Crazy Horse toured in 1986 and recorded

3588-551: The film's soundtrack, both released in 2018. In 2019, they embarked on their second European tour with Young and backed him as he co-headlined with Bob Dylan at an historic event at London ’s Hyde Park performing before an audience of over 65,000. The live album, Noise & Flowers , selected songs from Young's tour of Europe in 2019, was released on August 5, 2022. Since that 2008 meeting of Nelson and LoGerfo at Young's concert, Nelson says "We've come full circle, because [now] years later we’re playing with Neil. It's kind of

3666-411: The film. The film was released in October 2018. Release of the movie and soundtrack marked a turning point in their career. The exposure sparked an immediate increase in attendance at their performances, and a wider variety of concertgoers in the audience. Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) marked the band's fifth studio album release and second studio album release for Fantasy Records . The album

3744-428: The film.  He soon contacted Nelson to explore the possibility. The concept appealed to Nelson and initially, he was hired to be a consultant. He coached Cooper in 'how to keep things looking right and authentic — how to hold (the guitar), how to stand, all of that.' Nelson's role in the project grew to include writing and producing the music. Nelson co-wrote, with Cooper and Lady Gaga, the following eight tracks on

3822-561: The following months, they were seen at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass , the Americana Festival , Farm Aid , touring with Outlaw Music Festival, and headlining over 100 of their own shows. In late October that year, the band embarked on their first solo European Tour. In November, they played the Stagecoach Spotlight Tour with Nikki Lane . In August 2017, the self-titled album Lukas Nelson & Promise of

3900-527: The group from 1975 until 2014. On four of Crazy Horse's stand-alone studio albums, Talbot and Molina serve as the rhythm section to different sets of musicians. Following Sampedro's retirement, Nils Lofgren , an early member of Crazy Horse between 1970 and 1971, rejoined the group. The quartet of Young, Talbot, Molina and Lofgren recorded three studio albums between 2019 and 2022. In 2024, guitarist Micah Nelson, who had previously played with Young in Promise of

3978-512: The group. This sextet recorded the Rockets' only album, a self-titled record released in 1968 on White Whale Records . Whitten and Leon Whitsell contributed four songs apiece, with one song credited to Talbot and Molina and another, "Pill's Blues", to George Whitsell. Whitten's "Let Me Go" was prominently covered by Three Dog Night on their 1968 debut album ; during this period, vocalist Danny Hutton considered recruiting Whitten for that band. Although their album sold only about 5,000 copies,

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4056-469: The idea of how to create more emotion with your dynamics onstage and your performance." Young praised the band, saying, "Playing with these guys was a gift. Such positivity, pure energy and no fear." and later said, "This band (and the multi-generational thing) is epic!" The band kicked off another year of coast-to-coast touring in March 2017, after wrapping up recording sessions for their next album. Over

4134-472: The live album Earth was released. It was recorded during the Rebel Content Tour in 2015 and featured live performances augmented by studio overdubs and nature and animal sounds. They continued working with Neil Young, recording another album, titled The Visitor , released December 1, 2017. Young and the band starred in the musical film Paradox , (directed by Daryl Hannah ) and recorded

4212-439: The live album Year of the Horse (1997), the long-shelved Toast (recorded in 2001 and ultimately released in 2022) and Greendale (2003). Sampedro, who was instructed to sit out the recording of Greendale (as Young felt the material called for only one guitar) considered leaving the band; eventually, he participated on guitar and organ for the ensuing tour of 2003-2004. According to Jimmy McDonough, Crazy Horse had begun

4290-839: The majority of which became the basis of 1975's Tonight's the Night . In the autumn of 1973, that ensemble (initially billed as Crazy Horse for the inaugural concerts at the Roxy in September 1973) toured Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States as the Santa Monica Flyers. Molina and Whitsell would subsequently contribute to Young's On the Beach in 1974. Shortly after aborted Young sessions involving Talbot, Molina and Keith at Chicago's Chess Studios in late 1974,

4368-400: The more accomplished Bobby Notkoff (violin) and Leon Whitsell (lead guitar). After leaving the group as sessions for their first album commenced, the mercurial and reclusive Whitsell was promptly replaced by his younger brother George, a R&B -influenced guitarist also respected in the band's social circle. After Leon petitioned to return, it was decided that both Whitsells would remain in

4446-603: The musician Neil Young . Since 1969, fifteen studio albums and eight live albums have been billed as being by Neil Young and Crazy Horse . They have also released six studio albums of their own between 1971 and 2009. Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums) have been the only consistent members of the band across its fifty-five years. Founding guitarist Danny Whitten died in 1972 after recording two studio albums, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (with Young) and Crazy Horse . Except for two notable intervals, Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (rhythm guitar) regularly performed with

4524-622: The new album. Following the tour, they appeared with Young at Farm Aid , and the annual Bridge School Benefit . The following year was a whirlwind with Young, featuring appearances at the Beale Street Music Festival and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival soon followed by his expansive European tour. Upon their return, they appeared with him at the Desert Trip show in Indio, California . On June 17, 2016,

4602-509: The rhythm section of Talbot and Molina, he retrospectively lauded Whitten (who was of Scotch-Irish American ancestry) as "the only Black man in the band." While Young worked on his second album with Crazy Horse (including takes of Whitten's "Look at All the Things", Whitten & Young's " Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown " and Young's " Helpless " and "Winterlong") throughout the summer and autumn of 1969, Young joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as

4680-511: The sessions at the mansion they delayed releasing a new album until 2016 in order to pursue a venture with their rocker idol, Neil Young. The band released their album Something Real , in March 2016, on the Royal Potato Family label. The album was co-produced by the band and Steve Chadie . With the exception of two tracks, Nelson wrote all the music, and Neil Young appears as a guest vocalist. Nelson's connection with Neil Young

4758-617: The sound of the record. Following a warmup tour of unannounced appearances at various San Francisco Bay Area bars (dubbed by the media as the Rolling Zuma Revue in contrast to Bob Dylan 's contemporaneous Rolling Thunder Revue ) in December 1975, Young and the band toured Japan and Europe from March to April 1976. However, they were shut out of a proposed leg of touring when Young re-kindled his collaboration with Stephen Stills . Crazy Horse toured America that autumn when Young

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4836-468: The soundtrack: "Black Eyes", "Too Far Gone", "Alibi", "Look What I Found", "Is That Alright", "Music to My Eyes", "The Cure", and "I Don't Know What Love Is" . Ultimately, the band was brought into the project and Nelson and Promise of the Real appeared in the film as the band backing the lead character, Jackson Maine. Nelson won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for his contributions to

4914-550: The stage with B. B. King and appeared at festivals including the Waterfront Blues Festival and the Telluride Brews and Blues Festival. Over the next two years, they toured relentlessly, performing over 200 shows a year. In 2009, they released the studio EP Brando's Paradise Sessions . The five track release featured bassist John Avila in place of their original bassist, Merlyn Kelly, who left

4992-413: The summer of 2014 to make-up cancelled dates from the Alchemy Tour, relating to an injury suffered by Sampedro. For the tour, longtime Young collaborator Rick Rosas stood in for Talbot, who was recovering from a minor stroke. Rosas died from pulmonary hypertension with cardiac arrest on November 8, less than three months after the tour concluded. In May 2018, Lofgren joined Young, Talbot, and Molina for

5070-506: The televised Farm Aid fundraising concerts, and by 2013, the band had appeared on a number of major late night talk shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Late Night with Conan O'Brien , and The Late Show with David Letterman . The band completed their 2014 tour and moved into an old Victorian mansion, the William Westerfeld House , a historic landmark in San Francisco, California. After they completed

5148-648: The three electric-guitar songs in his barn. At some point, he dubbed this new group The Stray Gators. After the release of Harvest , they appeared on the " War Song " single, credited to Young and Graham Nash . Outtakes from the Harvest sessions later appeared on the Journey Through the Past soundtrack and The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972 . The band appears on the Tonight's the Night song "Lookout Joe", which

5226-441: The time to support things. I have to go with things that are going to support me. But I think they can do it." Shortly thereafter, Young and Crazy Horse convened to record two new albums, both of which were released in 2012. Americana was composed entirely of covers, mostly of American folk music revival standards, while Psychedelic Pill featured original songs written by Young for the band. Young and Crazy Horse embarked on

5304-560: The two-disc set, Scratchy: The Complete Reprise Recordings , in a limited edition of 2,500 copies. It included re-mastered versions of the debut album and their second, Loose in their entirety on the first disc, with the second disc containing nine rarities and out-takes (including both sides of a 1962 single by Danny and the Memories). The original set is currently out of print, but was re-issued on Rhino in England and Wounded Bird in

5382-525: Was "holdin' him back" as a guitarist and songwriter. Decades later, the extant recordings from the 1969 sessions (most notably a heretofore unknown iteration of "Helpless", long presumed lost due to an engineering error) were combined with select alternate mixes from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere on Early Daze (2024). Despite Young's dismissal, Crazy Horse capitalized on its newfound exposure and recorded its eponymous debut album for Reprise Records that year. The band retained Nitzsche (who co-produced

5460-470: Was a Saturday night, Mazer scrambled to find musicians who were not working that night and was able to bring in Drummond, Keith, and Buttrey. Over two nights they recorded four tracks that would end up on Harvest . Young then used frequent collaborator Nitzsche to arrange and produce two tracks with an orchestra. He then brought the three Nashville musicians and Nitzsche to his ranch in California to record

5538-755: Was forced to make up a series of canceled concert dates after leaving the Stills-Young tour before it was finished. Following sessions in November 1975 for an aborted Crazy Horse album, the band went on to appear on both 1977's American Stars 'n Bars (including several discrete tracks and the entire first side, which was credited to an expanded lineup [Neil Young, Crazy Horse and the Bullets] with Ben Keith, violinist Carole Mayedo and backing vocalists Linda Ronstadt and Nicolette Larson ) and on two tracks ("Look Out for My Love" and "Lotta Love") on 1978's Comes

5616-630: Was messing things up on the last tour during the early songs in the set." In February 2019, the Lofgren-era line-up performed two shows in Winnipeg . Its first album, Colorado , was released in October 2019, leading to the most prolific period of recording in the band's history. A second album, Barn , was recorded entirely in Young's barn in Colorado and released on December 10, 2021. In 2022,

5694-407: Was recorded in late 1972, and with Neil Young on an early session recording of Joni Mitchell 's " You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio " that was eventually released on Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972–1975) . In 1973, they backed Young on his Time Fades Away tour, though Buttrey was replaced mid-tour and on the album Time Fades Away by John Barbata . They ceased to operate as

5772-611: Was released in 1995 on the Sisapa/Curb label, and Crazy Moon was re-issued on CD again as a BMG import in 2005. At Crooked Lake was re-issued in 2013 on the Floating World label. Studio albums (without Neil Young) Compilations Other appearances Neil Young Other artists The Rockets Billy Talbot Ralph Molina Promise of the Real Lukas Nelson & Promise of

5850-419: Was released on June 14, 2019, peaking at No. 19 on Billboard ' s US Top Country Albums chart and 31 on Billboard ' s Top Rock Albums chart. On March 27, 2020, the band released Naked Garden , a 15-track collection that is a companion piece to 2019's Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) . Naked Garden includes previously unreleased versions and alternate takes of songs that were recorded during

5928-430: Was released under the collective name of Molina, Talbot, Lofgren & Young. In September 2023, the band performed two shows celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Roxy , with Promise of the Real guitarist Micah Nelson filling in for Lofgren. Fuckin' Up , a live recording of a private November 4, 2023 performance of Ragged Glory at Toronto's The Rivoli , was released on April 26, 2024; credited to "Neil &

6006-487: Was the first time we heard the Horse since Danny Whitten died." After the five-year hiatus since 1970, Young, Crazy Horse, and producer David Briggs, quickly recorded Zuma in the summer of 1975, in the basement of Briggs' rented house in Malibu . Sampedro's lack of technical proficiency at the time ("Neil kept writin' simpler songs so I could play them") and desire to see Young "rockin' and having fun" would greatly inform

6084-496: Was the only musician to appear on both albums. While the former saw Rockets guitarist George Whitsell briefly return to the fold, fronting the band in conjunction with Leroy and keyboardist John Blanton, the latter was dominated by the polished country rock of Rick and Mike Curtis, formerly of These Vizitors and best known for their later work as the Curtis Brothers. In the fall of 1972, Young placed Whitten on retainer with

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