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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 Is Nowhere'', " Cowgirl in the Sand" and " Down by the River", Young wrote "Cinnamon Girl" while he was suffering from the flu with a high fever at his home in Topanga, California. This song displays the very prominent role played by Danny Whitten in the sound of Young's early recordings. The vocals are a duet, with Whitten singing the high harmony against Young's low harmony. (The 45 rpm single mix of the song, in addition to being in mono and cutting off the guitar outro, features Whitten's vocal more prominently than the album version.) Young performed the song on his then-recently acquired Gibson Les Paul, " Old Black". The ''NME'' named "Cinnamon Girl" an example of "proto-grunge". The song was written in double drop D tuning (DADG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. Since the beginning of his solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse (band), Crazy Horse, he released critically acclaimed albums such as ''Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'' (1969), ''After the Gold Rush'' (1970), ''Harvest (Neil Young album), Harvest'' (1972), ''On the Beach (Neil Young album), On the Beach'' (1974), and ''Rust Never Sleeps'' (1979). He was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with whom he recorded the chart-topping 1970 album ''Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album), Déjà Vu''. Young's guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature high tenor singing voice define his long career. He also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk music, folk, rock music, rock, count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Drop D Tuning
Double drop D tuning: DADGBD, also known simply as double drop D, is an alternative guitar tuning: both E strings are tuned down ("dropped") one whole step (2 frets) to D rather than E as in standard tuning (EADGBE). Uses of double dropped D tuning The main use for double dropped D is so that guitarists can play intervals of a fifth with one finger on the bass strings, and play the treble side of a barre chord. Some recordings that make effective use of this tuning are " Black Water" by The Doobie Brothers, " The Loner," " Cortez the Killer," "Don't Let It Bring You Down," "Ohio" and " Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young, " Choctaw Bingo" and "We Can't Make It Here" by James McMurtry, " Find the Cost of Freedom" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, " Going to California" by Led Zeppelin, "The End" by The Doors, " Devils & Dust" by Bruce Springsteen, "Satellite" by Elliott Smith, " Overkill" by Men At Work, " Bryter Layter" by Nick Drake, and " Nobody's Fault but My Own" by Beck. Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Lobos
Los Lobos (, Spanish for "the Wolves") is a Mexican American rock group, rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños. The band rose to international stardom in 1987, when their version of " La Bamba" peaked at the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, and several other countries. Songs by Los Lobos have been recorded by Elvis Costello, Waylon Jennings, Frankie Yankovic, and Robert Plant. In 2015, they were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2018, they were inducted into the ''Austin City Limits'' Hall of Fame. They are also known for performing the theme song for '' Handy Manny''. As of 2024, they have been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards and have won four. History 1973–79: Formation and early releases Vocalist and guitarist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mendelsohn (musician)
John Ned Mendelsohn is an American writer, journalist, musician and graphic designer. Biography Mendelsohn, who has sometimes spelled his name as Mendelssohn with two s's, was born in Washington but moved with his parents to southern California aged six months. He lived briefly in the San Fernando Valley, but mostly on the coast, first in Playa del Rey, and later above Pacific Coast Highway just south of Topanga Canyon Boulevard on Sunset Mesa. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, thus avoiding military service in the Vietnam War. Mendelsohn began contributing music criticism to the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''Rolling Stone'' while still a student. Although he was an ardent champion of the Kinks and David Bowie, the best known of these early contributions are his unfavorable reviews of the first two Led Zeppelin albums, which were published in ''Rolling Stone'' in 1969. His review of ''Led Zeppelin II'' displayed the sarcastic wit that became a characteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Creswell
Toby Creswell (born 21 May 1955) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer. He was editor of ''Rolling Stone'' (Australia) and a founding editor of ''Juice''. In 1986, he co-wrote, his first book, ''Too Much Ain't Enough'' a biography of pub rocker and former Cold Chisel vocalist Jimmy Barnes. He also co-wrote with Martin Fabinyi ''The Real Thing: Adventures in Australian Rock & Roll, 1957-Now'' (1999) and ''1001 Australians You Should Know'' (2006). The latter was written with his domestic partner, fellow writer and journalist, Samantha Trenoweth. Biography Creswell wrote his first article on rock & roll for ''Nation Review'' in 1972. He subsequently wrote articles about all aspects of popular culture and music for ''RAM'', ''Billboard'', '' Roadrunner'' and a range of national and international magazines and newspapers. He has worked for ''MTV'' and a variety of television programs as a writer and presenter. As a keyboard player for seminal post-punk band, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Rogan
John Rogan (14 February 1953 – 21 January 2021) was a British author of Irish descent best known for his books about music and popular culture. He wrote influential biographies of the Byrds, Neil Young, the Smiths, Van Morrison and Ray Davies. His writing was characterised by "an almost neurotic attention to detail", epic length (the first volume of ''Requiem for the Timeless'' is more than 1,200 pages long) and an ambivalent, sometimes positive and sometimes hostile response, from the subjects of his biographies. Life and career Rogan spent his early childhood in impoverished circumstances in the Pimlico area of London. Chris Charlesworth, "Obituary: Johnny Rogan", ''The Guardian'', 18 February 2021 Retrieved 14 March 2021 His parents emigr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Ray (musician)
Jim and Jean, composed of Jim Glover (born 1942) and Jean Ray (1941–2007)Jean Ray Obituary , Durango Herald (). August 26, 2007. were an American duo, who performed and recorded music from the early to the late 1960s. They were married in 1963 and were listed as Jim and Jean Glover in the liner notes of their |
Finger Cymbals
Zills, zils, or sagat, also known as finger cymbals, are small metallic cymbals used in belly dance, belly dancing and similar performances. They are similar to Tibetan tingsha bells. In Western music, several pairs can be set in a frame to make a tambourine. Other names include ''nuqaisāt'' (after the ''Semantron#Naqus, naqus'') and ''ṣunnūj ṣaghīra'' in Arabic, ''sanj angshati'' in Persian, ''çeng'' in Turkish. History Zills, or finger cymbals, are part of a family of musical instruments known as ''clappers''. Clappers are musical instruments made of wood, bone, metal, and other substances that are played by being struck against each other. Clappers come in pairs and are often held in the hands, fastened together, or strapped to the performer's fingers. The clapper family also includes spoons, bones and castanets. One of the earliest forms of clappers are wooden ''krotala'' already present in Greece around 500 BC. Ancient Greek potteries depict men and women celebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs (; December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American songwriter, protest song, protest singer (or, as he preferred, "topical singer"), and Political Activist, political activist. Ochs was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, and political commentary. He wrote approximately 200 songs throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and released eight albums. Ochs performed at many political events throughout the course of his career—including the 1968 Democratic National Convention, multiple mass demonstrations sponsored by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, civil rights movement, civil rights rallies, student events, and Labour movement, organized labor events—and was known to perform at benefits for free. Politically, early in his career, Ochs described himself as a "left social democrat," but became an early revolutionary after the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, police riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jangle Pop
Jangle pop is a Music subgenre, subgenre of pop rock and college rock that emphasizes jangle, jangly guitars and 1960s-style pop music, pop melodies. The "jangly" guitar sound is characterized by its clean, shimmering and Arpeggio, arpeggiated tone, often created using 12-string electric guitar, 12-string electric guitars. The term is usually applied to late 1970s/early 1980s bands emerging from the post-punk scene, often influenced by 1960s groups such as the Byrds. Notable acts include Big Star, R.E.M. and the Smiths. Etymology and characteristics In the late 1970s and 1980s, prominent early jangle pop groups included Big Star, R.E.M., the dB's, 10,000 Maniacs, and the Smiths. In the early to mid 1980s, the term "jangle pop" emerged as a label for an American post-punk movement that recalled the sounds of "jangly" acts from the 1960s. Between 1983 and 1987, the description "jangle pop" was used to describe bands like R.E.M. and Let's Active as well as the Paisley Underground ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Guitar
The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer neck (music), neck and scale length (string instruments), scale length. The electric bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are also built. Since the mid-1950s, the bass guitar has replaced the double bass in popular music due to its lighter weight, smaller size, most models' inclusion of Fret, frets for easier Intonation_(music), intonation, and electromagnetic pickups for amplification. Another reason the bass guitar replaced the double bass is because the double bass is "acoustically imperfect" like the viola. For a double bass to be acoustically perfect, its body size would have to be twice as that of a cello rendering it unplayable, so the double bass is made smaller to make it playable. The elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortez The Killer
"Cortez the Killer" is a song by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young from his 1975 album, ''Zuma (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album), Zuma''. It was recorded with the band Crazy Horse (band), Crazy Horse. It has since been ranked No. 39 on ''Guitar World, Guitar World's'' 100 Greatest Guitar Solos and No. 329 on ''Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone's'' list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Young has stated in concert that he wrote the song while studying history in high school in Winnipeg. According to Young's notes for the album ''Decade (Neil Young album), Decade'', the song was banned in Spain under Francisco Franco; according to Xavier Valiño, when ''Zuma'' was released in Spain following Franco's death, the song was listed as "Cortez, Cortez". Lyrics and interpretation The song is inspired by Hernán Cortés's Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, conquest of the Aztec Empire under Moctezuma II in the 16th century. The song is not focusing on historical accuracy or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
