finetune artist: Neil Young/Crazy Horse

b. 12 November 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Although Young maintains he had a happy childhood he contracted polio when he was 6 and throughout his teenage years he suffered the disintegration of his parents' marriage (his father, Scott Young, was a hugely prolific sports writer and novelist). Having moved to Winnipeg as a child, Young began his enigmatic career as a member of several high-school bands, including the Jades and Classics. He later formed the Squires with Ken Koblun, whose indebtedness to the UK instrumental combo the Shadows was captured on Young's composition "Aurora'/'The Sultan". In 1965, he embarked on a folk-based musical direction, with appearances in Toronto's bohemian Yorkville enclave. A demonstration tape from this era contains early versions of "Sugar Mountain", a paean to lost childhood later placed on 10 different single releases, and "Don't Pity Me", revived a decade later as "Don't Cry No Tears". Young then joined the Mynah Birds, a pop soul attraction that also featured Rick James, but this act folded prematurely upon the latter's arrest for draft evasion. Group bass player Bruce Palmer accompanied Young on a subsequent journey to Los Angeles in Young's hearse (Mort 2) where they sought out and found Stephen Stills and Richie Furay to form the Buffalo Springfield.

Listen to Neil Young/Crazy Horse at Finetune.

(1991) Weld CD 2

Cinnamon Girl
Down By the River
Cortez the Killer
Rockin' In The Free World
Like A Hurricane