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Harvest (Neil Young album)
''Harvest'' is the fourth album by the Canadian musician Neil Young, released on February 14, 1972 on Reprise Records, catalogue MS 2032. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks and vocals by noted guests David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, and James Taylor. It topped the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart for two weeks, and spawned two hit singles, "Old Man", which peaked at #31 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and "Heart of Gold", which reached #1. It was the best-selling album of 1972 in the United States.
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After the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young went their way in 1970, Young recruited a group of country session musicians (which he christened The Stray Gators) and recorded a country rock record, ''Harvest''. The record was a massive hit, producing a US number one single in "Heart of Gold". Other songs returned to some usual Young themes: "Alabama" was "an unblushing rehash of 'Southern Man'";〔So characterized by Jim Miller in ''Rolling Stone''; quoted in Inglis, Sam (2003), ''Harvest'', pp. 93-94. The Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1495-8.〕 and "The Needle and the Damage Done" was a lament for great artists who had died of heroin addiction. The former song was also at least partially responsible (along with the aforementioned "Southern Man") for the creation of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1973 hit "Sweet Home Alabama"; Young later wrote of "Alabama" in his autobiography ''Waging Heavy Peace'', saying it "richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. I don't like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue." "Words (Between the Lines of Age)", the last song on the album, featured a lengthy guitar workout with the band. It has a typical Neil Young structure consisting of four chords during the multiple improvised solos. The song is notable for alternating between a standard 4/4 time signature for verses and choruses and an unusual 11(3+3+3+2)/8 for interludes.
The album's success caught Young off guard and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. He would later write that the record "put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there."〔Bronson, Fred (2003). ''The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits'', p. 308. Billboard Books. ISBN 0-8230-7677-6.〕
According to the Neil Young Archives, the actual release date for Harvest was February 25, 1972.
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