Crazy Horse is the eponymous debut album by Crazy Horse, the rock band famous for their long-time collaboration with Neil Young.
Members of this band had already released an album in 1968 as The Rockets, and had appeared on record twice with Young as Crazy Horse.
The core trio from the Rockets, Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina, provided instrumental backing for Young's 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and performed on some...
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Crazy Horse is the eponymous debut album by Crazy Horse, the rock band famous for their long-time collaboration with Neil Young.
Members of this band had already released an album in 1968 as The Rockets, and had appeared on record twice with Young as Crazy Horse.
The core trio from the Rockets, Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina, provided instrumental backing for Young's 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and performed on some songs from Young's 1970 album After the Gold Rush. During sessions for the latter, they met guitar prodigy Nils Lofgren, and producer/keyboardist Jack Nitzsche of Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew and Rolling Stones fame, also on hand in supportive roles. They meshed, and Crazy Horse expanded into a quartet to back up Young for a short tour in early 1970, and then into a quintet with Lofgren for this album, picking up a contract with Reprise Records after the exposure garnered from Gold Rush.
For the recording of this album in the fall of 1970,...
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