“Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” by Neil Young

"Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" gave its name to the 1969 album Neil Young made with Crazy Horse, though the song itself went back further: Young had written it earlier, and a different version was considered for his 1968 solo debut, Neil Young. This take is country rock with its boots on, loose and rowdy, with Young and Danny Whitten on guitars, Billy Talbot on bass and Ralph Molina on drums, and Whitten and Molina singing along with Young. David Briggs produced it with Young and recorded it.

Underneath the good-time rattle is a man fed up with the Los Angeles music scene and itching to get out and go home. One reading has the singer finally getting what he chased, fame and success perhaps, only to find it leads nowhere.

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