Zuma (album)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Zuma | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||
| Studio album by Neil Young with Crazy Horse | |||||
| Released | November 10, 1975 | ||||
| Recorded | June 16, 1974 - August 29, 1975 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 36:34 | ||||
| Label | Reprise Records | ||||
| Producer | Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan | ||||
| Professional reviews | |||||
| Neil Young chronology | |||||
|
|||||
Zuma is a rock album by Neil Young with Crazy Horse released in 1975. It was named after Zuma Beach in Malibu.
Zuma was the first album released after the famed Ditch Trilogy, comprising the albums Time Fades Away, Tonight's the Night, and On the Beach. It has an overall more upbeat atmosphere, with a combination of country-tinged rock acoustics and lumbering hard-rock pieces similar in style to songs on Young's second album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. As on the latter album, Young is backed up by Crazy Horse with the late Danny Whitten being replaced by Frank Sampedro.
Contents |
[edit] Song notes
- "Don't Cry No Tears" is a dusting off of a song Young had written in high school.
- "Danger Bird" interpolates sections of an unreleased song relating to Young's breakup with Carrie Snodgress called "L.A. Girls and Ocean Boys", specifically the line "'Cause you've been with another man / there you are and here I am". It is one of Lou Reed's favourite songs by Neil Young.[1]
- "Pardon My Heart" was originally intended to be released as part of Homegrown.
- Young has claimed several different origins for "Cortez the Killer", most notoriously during a show on August 13, 1996 that he'd written it in high school while suffering "Montezuma's Revenge". The song ends with a fade out because the original cut stopped abruptly due to recording tape running out before the band had finished playing.
- "Through My Sails", (originally titled "Sailboat song") the final track, is the only track ever released from an aborted Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young recording session in Hawaii in late 1974 for the as yet unreleased Human Highway album. This would be the last CSNY music released until 1988's American Dream. The song was recently covered in 2007 by the Soulsavers with Mark Lanegan on the album "It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land."
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Neil Young.
[edit] Side One
- "Don't Cry No Tears" – 2:34
- "Danger Bird" – 6:54
- "Pardon My Heart" – 3:49
- "Lookin' For A Love" – 3:17
- "Barstool Blues" – 3:02
[edit] Side Two
- "Stupid Girl" – 3:13
- "Drive Back" – 3:32
- "Cortez the Killer" – 7:29
- "Through My Sails" – 2:41
[edit] Personnel
Neil Young with Crazy Horse:
- Neil Young: guitar & vocals
- Frank Sampedro: rhythm guitar
- Billy Talbot: bass & vocals
- Ralph Molina: drums & vocals
except:
- "Pardon My Heart":
- Neil Young: vocals and all instruments except bass
- Tim Drummond: bass
- Billy Talbot: vocals
- Ralph Molina: vocals
and
- "Through My Sails":
- David Crosby: vocals
- Stephen Stills: bass, vocals
- Graham Nash: vocals
- Neil Young: guitar, vocals
- Russ Kunkel: congas
[edit] References
- McDonough, J. Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, Random House, 2002. ISBN 0-679-42772-4
- "Neil Young With Crazy Horse - Zuma". Discogs.
