Song · Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
“Country Girl” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Released 1970
“Country Girl” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2004 and 2023. It was first released in 1970. Its best result is #494 on the WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,251 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Country Girl" is Neil Young's widescreen contribution to Déjà Vu, the 1970 album Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young made together, and it's really three songs stitched into a single suite. The opening stretch, "Whisky Boot Hill", grew out of a tune Young first started on in 1967 and had already put out as a string-quartet piece on his solo debut, Neil Young. The middle section, "Down Down Down", came from a Buffalo Springfield recording that stayed in the vaults until that band's box set in 2001. Then it all resolves into "Country Girl (I Think You're Pretty)".
What it all means is anybody's guess. Music lecturer Ken Bielen hears a barroom scene with a waitress at its center and one of Young's recurring themes, a fascination with celebrity, peeking through, while AllMusic's Richie Unterberger simply files the words under enigmatic.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 494 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2020 | 1543 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2023 | 567 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
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