rock
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band best known for their association with
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay ...
. Beginning in 1968 and continuing to the present day, they have been co-credited on a number of Young's albums, with 12 studio albums and numerous live albums being billed as by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. They have also released six studio albums of their own, issued between 1971 and 2009.
Billy Talbot
William Hammond Talbot (born October 23, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the bassist of Crazy Horse.
Music career
Born in New York City, Talbot started his musical career singing on street corners at the age o ...
(bass) and
Ralph Molina
Ralph Molina (born June 22, 1943) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse.
Born in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth o ...
(drums) have been the only consistent members of the band. On four of Crazy Horse's studio albums, Talbot and Molina serve as the rhythm section to entirely different sets of musicians. Except for two notable intervals,
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (born Manuel Francisco Sampedro de Victoria, February 25, 1949) is an American retired guitarist and member of the rock band Crazy Horse, known mainly for his longtime collaboration with singer-songwriter Neil Young. Samp ...
(rhythm guitar) regularly performed with the group from 1975 until 2014.
History
Early years
The band's origins date to 1963 and the Los Angeles-based
a cappella
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doo-wop
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group Danny & the Memories, which consisted of lead singer
Danny Whitten
Danny Ray Whitten (May 8, 1943 – November 18, 1972) was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse, and for the song "I Don't Want to Talk About It", a hit for Rod Stewart and Every ...
and supporting vocalists Lou Bisbal (soon to be replaced by Bengiamino Rocco, the husband of actress
Lorna Maitland
Lorna Maitland, born Barbara Ann Popejoy (November 19, 1943), is an American film actress. She appeared in three Russ Meyer films: '' Lorna'', '' Mudhoney'', and '' Mondo Topless''.
Biography
Lorna Maitland was born in Glendale, Los Angeles ...
), Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina.
Sly Stone
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produced a single for the group (by then re-christened the Psyrcle) in
San Francisco
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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
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/
folk rock
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ensemble that juxtaposed the rudimentary instrumental abilities of Whitten (rhythm guitar), Talbot (bass) and Molina (drums) against the more accomplished
Bobby Notkoff
Bobby Notkoff (31 December 1940 - 5 October 2018) was a violinist who played with The Rockets in the 1960s and Family Lotus in the 1970s. Notkoff was also part of one of the first supergroups Electric Flag, with Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles ...
(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 the group.
This sextet recorded the Rockets' only album, a self-titled set released in 1968 on
White Whale Records White Whale Records was an American independent record label, founded in 1965 by Ted Feigin and Lee Lasseff in Los Angeles, California, and probably best known as the record label of The Turtles and a handful of one-hit wonder bands.
White Whale, i ...
. Whitten and Leon Whitsell contributed four songs apiece, with one song credited to Talbot and Molina and another ("Pill's Blues," the group's unofficial anthem) to George Whitsell. Whitten's "Let Me Go" was prominently covered by
Three Dog Night
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Danny Hutton
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considered recruiting Whitten for that band.
With Neil Young, 1968–1970
Although their album sold only about 5,000 copies, the Rockets soon re-connected with
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay ...
, whom they had met two years earlier during the early days of
Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield was a rock band formed in Los Angeles by Canadian musicians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin and American musicians Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. The group, widely known for the song "For What It's Worth", rele ...
. In August 1968, three months after Buffalo Springfield dissolved, Young jammed with the group during a Rockets performance at the
Whisky a Go Go
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; Molina would later recall that Young's idiosyncratically distinctive guitar style "blew George Whitsell's away. He was kind of overshadowed."
Shortly thereafter, 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 concern, 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 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
''Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'' is the second studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in May 1969 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6349. His first with longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it peaked at number 34 ...
'' was released in May 1969. A
sleeper hit
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that peaked at No. 34 in the United States in August 1970 during a ninety-eight week chart stay, it included the American No. 55 pop hit "
Cinnamon Girl
"Cinnamon Girl" is a song by Neil Young. It debuted on the 1969 album ''Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'', which was also Young's first album with backing band Crazy Horse.
Songwriting Music
Like two other songs from ''Everybody Knows This ...
Cowgirl in the Sand
"Cowgirl in the Sand" is a song written by Neil Young and first released on his 1969 album ''Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere''. Young has included live versions of the song on several albums and on the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young album '' 4 Wa ...
" alongside country and folk-influenced songs such as "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)," a tribute to the defunct band featuring a guest appearance by Notkoff.
Crazy Horse toured with Young throughout the first half of 1969 and, with the addition of frequent Young collaborator
Jack Nitzsche
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche ( '; April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000) was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spec ...
on
electric piano
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, in early 1970. That year's tour was showcased on the 2006 album '' Live at the Fillmore East''. Young would later opine that " nsome 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 the rhythm section of Talbot and Molina, he retrospectively lauded Whitten (who was of
Scotch-Irish American
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ancestry) as "the only black man in the band."
Shortly after beginning work on his third solo album with Crazy Horse in 1969 (including an unreleased take of Whitten's "Look at All the Things" and a performance of Young's " Helpless" that failed to make it to tape due to an engineering error), Young joined
Crosby, Stills & Nash
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as a full fourth member, 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. Aside from overdubbed backing vocals, the group as a whole appears on just three of the eleven tracks on ''
After the Gold Rush
''After the Gold Rush'' is the third studio album by the Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in September 1970 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6383. It is one of four high-profile albums (all charting within the top fifteen) ...
'': "
When You Dance I Can Really Love
"When You Dance I Can Really Love" is the ninth track on Neil Young's 1970 album ''After the Gold Rush''. It was written by Young.
Background
The official Neil Young website gives the title as "When You Dance I Can Really Love"; however, the CD re ...
" (recorded toward the end of the album's recording sessions, the majority of which included Ralph Molina in a semi-acoustic quartet with erstwhile CSNY bassist
Greg Reeves
Gregory Allen Reeves (born ) is an American bass guitarist. He is best known for playing bass on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's album ''Déjà Vu'' (1970).
Early life
Reeves grew up in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Warren Western Reserve Hi ...
and multi-instrumentalist
Nils Lofgren
Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984, a membe ...
) plus a cover of
Don Gibson
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's "
Oh Lonesome Me
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" and "
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...
" from the 1969 sessions. Young "fired" the group in the aftermath of the 1970 tour due to Whitten's escalating
heroin
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abuse (partially attributable to the rhythm guitarist's severe
rheumatoid arthritis
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) following an incapacitated performance at one of the Fillmore East performances; according to Molina, Whitten also felt that Young was "holdin' him back" as a guitarist and songwriter.
With and without Young, 1970–1989
Crazy Horse capitalized on its newfound exposure and recorded its eponymous debut album for
Reprise Records
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Artists currently signed to Reprise Records include Enya, Michael ...
that year. The band retained Nitzsche (who co-produced the album with Bruce Botnick) and added Lofgren as a second guitarist; singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ry Cooder
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also sat in on three tracks at the behest of Nitzsche to deputize 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
"I Don't Want to Talk About It" is a song written by American guitarist Danny Whitten. It was first recorded by American rock band Crazy Horse and issued as the final track on side one of their 1971 eponymous album. It was Whitten's signature ...
" would later be covered by a wide range of artists, including
Geoff Muldaur
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, the
Indigo Girls
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,
Pegi Young
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and
Rod Stewart
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. Stewart would record the song three times and score a hit with it on the same number of occasions, most notably as a UK No. 1 double A-side in 1977 with
Cat Stevens
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's "
The First Cut Is the Deepest
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." In 1988, the song would become a Top Ten hit in the UK again, this time a No. 3 for
Everything but the Girl
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. Two songs from the album were covered by Scottish hard rock band
Nazareth
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: Lofgren's "Beggar's Day" appeared on ''
Hair of the Dog
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'' (1975), while Nitzsche's "Gone Dead Train" is the second track on ''
Expect No Mercy
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'' (1977).
Following the commercial failure of ''Crazy Horse'', Lofgren and Nitzsche left the group to pursue solo careers; meanwhile, Whitten's drug problems pushed Talbot and Molina to dismiss him and turn to outside musicians. The band released two albums on different labels (''Loose'' and ''At Crooked Lake'') to critical and commercial indifference in 1972; along with Talbot and Molina, guitarist/singer-songwriter Greg Leroy 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
roots rock
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stylings of Rick and Mike Curtis, formerly of These Vizitors and best known for their later work as the Curtis Brothers.
Concurrently, Young placed Whitten on retainer in the fall of 1972 with 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
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and worked with him one-on-one during off-hours in an unsuccessful effort to keep him in the group, Whitten died several hours after returning to Los Angeles, his death attributed to a fatal overdose of alcohol and
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.
After Whitten's death and the tepid reception accorded to both albums, Talbot and Molina were the only full-fledged 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
Bennett Keith Schaeufele (March 6, 1937 – July 26, 2010), better known by his stage name Ben Keith, was an American musician and record producer. Known primarily for his work as a pedal steel guitarist with Neil Young, Keith was a fixture of ...
to record '' Tonight's the Night'', the majority of which eventually saw release in bowdlerized form with additional material added in 1975. In the autumn of 1973, that ensemble (initially billed as Crazy Horse for the inaugural concerts at the Roxy in September 1973) toured Canada, Great Britain, and the United States as the Santa Monica Flyers. Molina and Whitsell would subsequently contribute percussion and guitar (respectively) to Young's '' On the Beach'' in 1974.
Shortly after aborted Young sessions involving Talbot, Molina and Keith at Chicago's
Chess Studios
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in late 1974, the band spontaneously reconvened (sans the pedal steel guitarist) at Talbot's
Echo Park
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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 (to the initial chagrin of Molina) during the Chicago excursion and proved to be just the right person to help resurrect 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 was the first time we heard the Horse since Danny Whitten died." After a five-year hiatus Neil Young and Crazy Horse was born again, and Young marked the occasion by finishing off the lyrics to "
Powderfinger
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", soon to become one of the new line-up's signature songs.
With Sampedro and producer David Briggs in tow, Young and Crazy Horse quickly recorded '' Zuma'' later that year in the basement of Briggs' rented house in Malibu, initiating their most prolific period of collaboration. 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 and seeing chicks' asses swaying in the audience" would greatly inform the tenor of the record.
Following a warmup tour of unannounced engagements at various
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bars (ironically dubbed the Rolling Zuma Revue in contrast to Bob Dylan's contemporaneous
Rolling Thunder Revue
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) in December 1975, Young and the band toured Japan and Europe in March–April 1976. However, they were shut out of a proposed summer stadium tour when Young re-kindled his collaboration with Stephen Stills. They toured America that autumn when Young was forced to make up a series of canceled concert dates after walking out midway through the tour with Stills. From late 1975 to 1977, Young recorded feverishly in various solo and group configurations; Crazy Horse appears on all but two songs of 1977's country-inflected ''
American Stars 'n Bars
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'' (with many tracks featuring an augmented line-up that included Ben Keith, Carole Mayedo,
Linda Ronstadt
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Comes a Time
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'' features two performances with Crazy Horse: "Look Out for My Love" and the
Fleetwood Mac
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-inspired "Lotta Love".
In 1978, Crazy Horse released '' Crazy Moon'', their fourth original album. It features instrumental contributions from Young, Bobby Notkoff, Greg Leroy and Michael Curtis. Later that year, they joined Young on the tour that led to the successful ''
Rust Never Sleeps
''Rust Never Sleeps'' is an album with both studio and live tracks by Canadian American singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records. Most of the album was recorded live, then o ...
'' and ''
Live Rust
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''Live Rust'' composed of performances recorded at several venues, including the Cow Palace near San Francisco. Young als ...
'', both credited to Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
As Young spent much of the eighties working in genres mostly outside the band's idiom, Crazy Horse recorded with him more sporadically, appearing only on ''
Re·ac·tor
''Re·ac·tor'' is the eleventh studio album by Canadian folk rock musician Neil Young, and his fourth with American rock band Crazy Horse, released on November 2, 1981. It was his last album released through Reprise Records before he moved to G ...
'', an unspecified portion of ''
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'', and ''
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''. Sessions for a planned 1984 album with the band ended after they were "spooked" by the addition of a professional horn section, although a bootleg of a performance at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz containing many of the intended songs remains an enduring fan favorite.
Several years later, Young included all three members of Crazy Horse in another horn-driven ensemble, the Bluenotes. But when Talbot and Molina proved ill-suited to a blues-oriented approach, Young reluctantly replaced the Crazy Horse bassist and drummer while retaining Sampedro, who would remain with Young in various band permutations over the next two years. Immediately thereafter, Talbot and Molina hired former
Rain Parade
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lead guitarist Matt Piucci and recruited Sonny Mone from
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to provide lead vocals and rhythm guitar. With seven songs by Mone, this incarnation of the band recorded the pointedly-titled '' Left for Dead'' (1989) and filmed a
music video
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for "Child of War".
With and without Young, 1990–2004; 2012–2014; 2018–present
The split with Sampedro and Young proved relatively short-lived, as the duo reunited with Talbot and Molina under the Crazy Horse imprimatur in 1990 for the acclaimed album ''
Ragged Glory
''Ragged Glory'' is the 18th studio album by Canadian / American singer-songwriter Neil Young, and his sixth album with the band Crazy Horse. It was released by Reprise Records on September 9, 1990.
Recording
The ''Ragged Glory'' sessions took ...
'' and for a tour in 1991 that generated the live album '' Weld''. Over the next 12 years, Crazy Horse would steadily collaborate with Young once more, joining the singer for ''
Sleeps with Angels
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Year of the Horse
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'' (1997), "Goin' Home" on ''
Are You Passionate?
''Are You Passionate?'' is the 24th studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, his only album to feature Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and his eighth with Crazy Horse, released on April 9, 2002 as a double LP and as a single CD. It repres ...
'' (2002), and '' Greendale'' (2003). Sampedro agreed to sit out the recording of ''Greendale'', as Young felt the material called for only one guitar; he joined the band on guitar and organ for the ensuing tours of 2003 and 2004.
According to Jimmy McDonough, Crazy Horse had begun 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''. Young and Crazy Horse attempted to record for three months in
San Francisco
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in 2000; few takes were finished to the band's satisfaction, and Young re-recorded most of the material with Booker T. & the M.G.'s for ''Are You Passionate?''. ''Toast'', an album culled from the San Francisco sessions, was announced for imminent release in 2008 as part of Young's Archives series; it appeared in 2022.
Crazy Horse remained on hiatus for eight years following the ''Greendale'' tour. Although Sampedro was employed as a full-time assistant to
Kevin Eubanks
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on ''
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The fourth incarnation of the ...
'' from 1992 to 2010, the band continued to rehearse several times a year and more intermittently with Young during this period. ''Trick Horse''—a collection of hitherto unreleased non-Young recordings possibly derived from older Sampedro-funded sessions where session musicians were hired to play the instrumental parts, enabling the band to focus on their vocal performances—was released on
iTunes
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in 2009. According to Young in a 2011 interview with ''
American Songwriter
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History
The ''American Songwri ...
'', "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 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, Neil Young and Crazy Horse convened to release two albums in 2012. ''
Americana
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*Americana (music), a genre or style of American music
*Americana (culture), artifacts of the culture of the United States
Film, radio and television
* ''Americana'' (1992 TV series), a documentary series presented by J ...
'' was composed almost entirely of covers of
American folk music revival
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songs and singer-songwriter standards, while ''
Psychedelic Pill
''Psychedelic Pill'' is the 32nd studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on October 30, 2012. It is the second collaboration between Young and Crazy Horse released in 2012 (the first being ''Americana'') and their first ...
'' featured original Neil Young songs written for the band. Neil Young and Crazy Horse toured 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 also embarked on a summer 2014 European tour following a solo Young American tour spanning the winter and spring. For the tour, longtime Young collaborator
Rick Rosas
Rick "Rick the Bass Player" Rosas (September 10, 1949 – November 6, 2014) was an American musician, and one of the most sought after studio session musicians in Los Angeles. Though largely known for his long collaboration with Neil Young, throu ...
stood in for Talbot, who was recovering from a minor stroke. Rosas died from pulmonary hypertension with
cardiac arrest
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on November 8, less than three months after the tour concluded.
In May 2018, Lofgren joined Young, Talbot and Molina for a series of five "open rehearsal" concerts in
Fresno, California
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and
Bakersfield, California
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. Initially billed as Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the group (characterized by Young as the "Horse of a Different Color") ultimately performed at these engagements as NYCH. 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 has retired from music due to complications from
arthritis
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in both wrists and a 2013 finger injury: "It became painful for me to be on the road. When we were on that last tour n 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
n the 2013 European tour
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History
...
There were too many signs saying it was over for me. It wasn't for any other reason. ..I was messing things up on the last tour during the early songs in the set. I just couldn’t slide my fingers the way I used to when I played those lines."
In February 2019, the Lofgren-era line-up performed two shows in
Winnipeg
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. Its first album, ''
Colorado
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'', was credited to Neil Young and Crazy Horse and released in October 2019. A second album, ''
Barn
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'', was released on December 10, 2021, and a third, ''
World Record
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'', released on November 18, 2022.
Re-issued recordings
The self-titled debut album was re-issued on CD in 1994. In 2005,
Rhino Records
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' Handmade division released 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
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Places
* Loose, Germany
* Loose, Kent, a parish and village in southeast England
People
* Loose (surname)
Arts, entertainment, and media Music Albums
* ''Loose'' (B'z album), a 1995 album by B'z
* ''Loose'' (Crazy Horse album ...
'' 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 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
Raven Records was an Australian record label that specialised in retrospectives and reissues or recordings by American, British and Australian artists.
Raven Records was established in 1979 by Glenn A. Baker, Kevin Mueller and Peter Shillito ...
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'' 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.
Line-up
Current
*
Billy Talbot
William Hammond Talbot (born October 23, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the bassist of Crazy Horse.
Music career
Born in New York City, Talbot started his musical career singing on street corners at the age o ...
vocals
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(1968–present)
*
Ralph Molina
Ralph Molina (born June 22, 1943) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse.
Born in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth o ...
–
drums
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, vocals (1968–present)
*
Nils Lofgren
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–
guitar
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,
keyboards
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Text input
* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
* Musi ...
, vocals (1970–1971; 1973; 2018–present)
Past members who performed with Neil Young and Crazy Horse
*
Danny Whitten
Danny Ray Whitten (May 8, 1943 – November 18, 1972) was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse, and for the song "I Don't Want to Talk About It", a hit for Rod Stewart and Every ...
– guitar, vocals (1968–1971; died 1972)
*
Jack Nitzsche
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche ( '; April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000) was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spec ...
– keyboards, vocals (1970–1971; died 2000)
*
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (born Manuel Francisco Sampedro de Victoria, February 25, 1949) is an American retired guitarist and member of the rock band Crazy Horse, known mainly for his longtime collaboration with singer-songwriter Neil Young. Samp ...
– guitar, keyboards,
mandolin
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, vocals (1975–1988; 1990–2001; 2003–2014)
Other past members
* George Whitsell – guitar, vocals (1971–1972)
* Greg Leroy – guitar, vocals (1971–1972; 1978 uest
* John Blanton – keyboards, harmonica, cello, vocals (1971–1972)
* Rick Curtis – guitar, banjo, vocals (1972)
* Michael Curtis – keyboards, guitar, mandolin, vocals (1972; 1978 uest
* Sonny Mone – rhythm guitar, vocals (1989)
* Matt Piucci – lead guitar, vocals (1989)
White Whale
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Loose
Loose may refer to:
Places
* Loose, Germany
* Loose, Kent, a parish and village in southeast England
People
* Loose (surname)
Arts, entertainment, and media Music Albums
* ''Loose'' (B'z album), a 1995 album by B'z
* ''Loose'' (Crazy Horse album ...
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
''Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'' is the second studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in May 1969 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6349. His first with longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it peaked at number 34 ...
'' (1969)
* ''
After the Gold Rush
''After the Gold Rush'' is the third studio album by the Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in September 1970 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6383. It is one of four high-profile albums (all charting within the top fifteen) ...
'' (1970) - credited to Neil Young; "
Oh Lonesome Me
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", "
When You Dance I Can Really Love
"When You Dance I Can Really Love" is the ninth track on Neil Young's 1970 album ''After the Gold Rush''. It was written by Young.
Background
The official Neil Young website gives the title as "When You Dance I Can Really Love"; however, the CD re ...
" and "I Believe in You"
* '' Tonight's the Night'' (1975) - credited to Neil Young, with most tracks featuring Lofgren, Molina and Talbot as the Santa Monica Flyers; "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown" (recorded live at the Fillmore East on March 7, 1970)
* '' Zuma'' (1975) - all songs except "Pardon My Heart" and "Through My Sails"
* ''
American Stars 'n Bars
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'' (1977) - credited to Neil Young; all songs except "Star of Bethlehem" and "
Will to Love
"Will to Love" is a song written by Neil Young that was first released on his 1977 album ''American Stars 'N Bars''. A promotional single of "Will to Love" was released, backed with a live performance of "Cortez the Killer."
Background
"Will to ...
"
* ''
Comes a Time
''Comes a Time'' is the ninth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, released by Reprise Records in October 1978. Its songs are written as moralizing discourses on love's failures and recovering from worldly troubles. They are la ...
'' (1978) - credited to Neil Young; "Look Out for My Love" and "
Lotta Love
"Lotta Love" is a song written and recorded by Neil Young and released on his 1978 '' Comes a Time'' album. "Lotta Love" was also covered by Nicolette Larson in 1978. Larson's version reached No. 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and No. 8 ...
""
* ''
Re·ac·tor
''Re·ac·tor'' is the eleventh studio album by Canadian folk rock musician Neil Young, and his fourth with American rock band Crazy Horse, released on November 2, 1981. It was his last album released through Reprise Records before he moved to G ...
'' (1981)
* ''
Trans
Trans- is a Latin prefix meaning "across", "beyond", or "on the other side of".
Used alone, trans may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Trans (festival), a former festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
* ''Trans'' (fil ...
'' (1982) - credited to Neil Young; "We R in Control" and "Computer Cowboy (aka Syscrusher)"
* ''
Life
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'' (1987)
* ''
Ragged Glory
''Ragged Glory'' is the 18th studio album by Canadian / American singer-songwriter Neil Young, and his sixth album with the band Crazy Horse. It was released by Reprise Records on September 9, 1990.
Recording
The ''Ragged Glory'' sessions took ...
'' (1990)
* ''
Sleeps with Angels
''Sleeps with Angels'' is the 20th studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on August 16, 1994, on Reprise as a double LP and as a single CD. Co-produced by David Briggs, the album is Young's seventh with Crazy Horse.
Background ...
Are You Passionate?
''Are You Passionate?'' is the 24th studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, his only album to feature Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and his eighth with Crazy Horse, released on April 9, 2002 as a double LP and as a single CD. It repres ...
'' (2002) - credited to Neil Young; "Goin' Home"
* '' Greendale'' (2003)
* ''
Americana
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*Americana (music), a genre or style of American music
*Americana (culture), artifacts of the culture of the United States
Film, radio and television
* ''Americana'' (1992 TV series), a documentary series presented by J ...
'' (2012)
* ''
Psychedelic Pill
''Psychedelic Pill'' is the 32nd studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on October 30, 2012. It is the second collaboration between Young and Crazy Horse released in 2012 (the first being ''Americana'') and their first ...
'' (2012)
* ''
Colorado
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'' (2019)
* ''
Barn
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'' (2021)
* ''
Toast
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* Toast (food), bread browned with dry heat
* Toast (honor), a ritual in which a drink is taken
Toast may also refer to:
Places
* Toast, North Carolina, a census-designated place in the United States
Books
* '' ...
''; recorded 2001 (2022)
* ''
World Record
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'' (2022)
Live albums
* ''
Rust Never Sleeps
''Rust Never Sleeps'' is an album with both studio and live tracks by Canadian American singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records. Most of the album was recorded live, then o ...
'' (1979) - "
Powderfinger
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", "Welfare Mothers", "
Sedan Delivery
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" and "
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
"Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a song written by Canadian-American musician Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart " My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's 1979 album '' Rust Never Sleeps''. The song was influenc ...
* ''
Live Rust
''Live Rust'' is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, recorded during their fall 1978 ''Rust Never Sleeps'' tour.
''Live Rust'' composed of performances recorded at several venues, including the Cow Palace near San Francisco. Young als ...
'' (live, 1979)
* '' Weld'' (live, 1991)
* '' Arc'' (live, 1991) - a 35-minute composite of feedback, guitar noise, and vocal fragments culled from endings of songs performed live
* ''
Year of the Horse
''Year of the Horse'' is a 1997 American documentary film directed by Jim Jarmusch, following Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their 1996 tour. An accompanying live album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse was released in 1997. It offers a different tra ...
Return to Greendale
''Return to Greendale'' is a live album from American-Canadian folk rock musician Neil Young and American rock band Crazy Horse recorded in 2003 while touring to promote the album '' Greendale''.
Recording and release
Young announced the ''Greend ...
'' (live, 2020; recorded Sep 4, 2003)
* ''
Way Down in the Rust Bucket
''Way Down in the Rust Bucket'' is a live album and concert film from Canadian-American rock musician Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse, released on February 26, 2021. It is Volume 11.5 in the Performance Series of Neil Young Archives.
Recordin ...
Year of the Horse
''Year of the Horse'' is a 1997 American documentary film directed by Jim Jarmusch, following Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their 1996 tour. An accompanying live album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse was released in 1997. It offers a different tra ...
'' (1997)
* '' Greendale'' (2004)
** video release includes "Be the Rain" live at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, 9/4/03
* ''Be the Rain'' (2004, promo only)
* ''Farm Aid 2003: A Soundstage Special Event'' (c. 2004)
** includes "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" live at the Germain Amptheater, Columbus, Ohio, 9/7/03
* '' A MusiCares Tribute to Bruce Springsteen'' (2014)
Billy Talbot solo
*''Alive in the Spirit World'' (2004)
*''On the Road to Spearfish'' (2013)
Other collaborations
* ''
She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina
''She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina'' is the seventh album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1971.
Her previous album '' Illuminations'' having sold so poorly as to lose Vanguard a considerable sum of money, the label placed considerable pressure ...
'',
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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,
Vanguard
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History
The vanguard derives fr ...
, 1971
* ''Head like a Rock'',
Ian McNabb
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