Neil Young's Second Record aka Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (1969) - Reprise

Hello Friends,

We've got a true classic on the turntable tonight, Neil Young's remarkable sophomore LP, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.

Now Tiki T. and I are pretty big fans of Neil's self-titled debut record (review here), but he really ups the ante here.  It would be his first full collaboration with Crazy Horse 

And it sounds so fucking perfect on scratchy vinyl.

Opening with one of Neil's signature songs, as well as one of Classic Rock's greatest riffs, the punkish, "Cinnamon Girl."

Next up is the sublime title track which, according to YouTube, a lot of military guys and gals like listening to while stationed overseas.

Onto side two.

Few can do lonely as well as Mr. Young can and "The Losing End (When You're On)" is no exception.  

"Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)" is another quiet & acoustic song featuring some great fiddle work courtesy of Bobby Notkoff.  The Rockets, by the way, were a psychedelic blues band out of L.A. who released one album in 1968 before changing their name to... Crazy Horse.

Neil Young wrote in the liner notes on his Decade compilation album that this album's closer, "Cowgirl in the Sand" was written (along with "Cinnamon Girl" and "Down By The River") in Topanga, California while he was suffering from the flu and fighting a fever of 103 degrees!  

On a related note, the last time I had the "flu" I stayed in bed and watched a marathon of that television show where the adult who played Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch married some hot, young model who liked to be naked all the time.

And by flu, of course I mean the Irish variety...

RATING: 5 gotta get away from this day-to-day running around everybody knows that this is nowhere out of 5