Year of the Horse

This article is about the film. For the year in the Chinese zodiac, see Horse (zodiac).

Year of the horse
Directed by	Jim Jarmusch
Produced by	L. A. Johnson
Written by	Jim Jarmusch
Starring	Neil Young
Editing by	Jay Rabinowitz
Release date(s)	9 May 1997
Running time	106 min.
Language	English

Year of the Horse
Live album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Released	June 17, 1997
Recorded	On tour in 1996
Genre	Rock
Length	84:22
Label	Reprise
Producer	"Horse"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse chronology
Broken Arrow (1996) Year of the Horse (1997) Silver & Gold (2000)

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Year of the Horse is a 1997 documentary directed by Jim Jarmusch following Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their 1996 tour.

Eponymous album

Year of the Horse is also a live album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released in 1997. It offers a different track list than the film.

This live album, in many ways could be seen as an epitaph for longtime Neil Young producer David Briggs who died in 1995 from lung cancer. This is reflected by the song choices which (outside of recent album cuts like "Scattered" and "Big Time") were among Briggs' favorites.

Track listing

All songs were written by Neil Young.

Disc one

1. "When You Dance" – 6:20
2. "Barstool Blues" – 9:02
3. "When Your Lonely Heart Breaks" – 5:04
4. "Mr. Soul" – 5:05
5. "Big Time" – 7:28
6. "Pocahontas" – 4:50
7. "Human Highway" – 4:07

Disc two

1. "Slip Away" – 10:52
2. "Scattered" – 4:00
3. "Danger Bird" – 13:34
4. "Prisoners" – 6:40
5. "Sedan Delivery" – 7:16 (omitted on LP)

Personnel

• Neil Young: guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal
• Poncho Sampedro: guitar, keyboards, vocal
• Billy Talbot: bass, vocal
• Ralph Molina: drums, percussion, vocal

Reception

It currently holds a 50% "rotten" rating on the critical review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert called it the worst movie of 1997.

External links

• Year of the Horse at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Jim Jarmusch and Larry A. Johnson