Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young song)
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| "Cinnamon Girl" | |
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| Single by Neil Young & Crazy Horse | |
| from the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | |
| B-side | "Sugar Mountain" |
| Released | April 20 1970 |
| Format | 45 rpm Record |
| Recorded | January & March, 1969 at Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, CA |
| Genre | Hard rock |
| Length | 2:58 |
| Label | Reprise |
| Writer(s) | Neil Young |
| Producer | Neil Young David Briggs |
"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. The single reached #55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1970.
[edit] Performance notes
This song, more than any other, displays the very prominent role played by Danny Whitten in the sound of Neil Young's early recordings. It is Crazy Horse's rhythm guitarist who sings the high harmony, while Young sings the low harmony.
Young performed the song on his then recently acquired Gibson Les Paul, "Old Black".
The song is written in Double Drop D tuning (DADGBD). This tuning is used in several of his most famous songs, such as "Cortez the Killer", "Fuckin' Up", "The Loner", "Ohio", "Inca Queen", "The Old Laughing Lady", "Ride My Llama", "When You Dance I Can Really Love."[citation needed]
[edit] Notable covers
"Cinnamon Girl" has been covered by many artists:
- Killdozer on their album Snake Boy
- The Gentrys on their self-titled album for Sun Records in 1970
- Type O Negative, on their album October Rust in 1996
- John Entwistle, on his solo debut, Smash Your Head Against the Wall
- The Sisters Euclid, on the Neil Young tribute Run Neil Run
- Boyd Tinsley, on True Reflections
- Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, on their 2006 album , Under the Covers, Vol. 1
- Bernard Fowler covers this song on his album Friends With Privileges
- Hawksley Workman on the DVD Live in Lille
- Radiohead during the 2001 Amnesiac tour
- Dream Syndicate
- Replicants on their self-titled 1996 album
- Bob Mould during the 1989 Workbook tour
- Motörhead released a cover of this song on their compilation All The Aces
- Tim Christensen during the 2009 Superior tour
- Hole used the main riff on the track Starbelly, featured on their album Pretty On The Inside
- Mudhoney used the small guitar riff at the end of Cinnamon Girl as the intro to Broken Hands on Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
The Prince song "Cinnamon Girl," from his album Musicology, is not a cover but an original song unrelated to Neil Young's.
[edit] External links
- Planer, Lindsay (2008). "'Cinnamon Girl' review", AllMusic.
