Watch City and Colour Cover Neil Young’s “Cowgirl in the Sand”
On November 12, the legendary and continually prolific Neil Young will turn 70 years old. To celebrate that, CBC Radio 2’s The Strombo Show invited a collection of musicians to pay tribute to the music of Young.
One of those performers was City and Colour (aka Dallas Green), who chose to play a stripped-down, condensed version of “Cowgirl in the Sand” from Young’s 1969 album, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.
Recalled Green: “August 18, 1993 at the Exhibition. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Blues Traveler. Watching [Neil Young] play there was my first introduction and seeing, when you are younger you want to know what bands are your favourite bands’ favourite bands. To see that Pearl Jam/Neil Young camaraderie, I guess, is what got me really into it … I was 12, so that was a life-altering moment for me.”
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