![]() ![]() It was a time of upheaval and changing values. The song, interestingly is based on an apocalyptic post war novel that was never written. George McGovern lost presidential elections to Nixon in 68 and in 72. Wes from AlabamaThis is a political song.Cray Head from The Silver Seed PlanetWes from Alabama’s Nixon references were particularly interesting to me because it was Nixon who put an end to the U.S.I've always felt that Neil had a great deal of really uncanny prescience in his writing." "Neil's seeing humans leaving the planet and go off to start a new space colony. ![]() "I would think, 'This is the future,'" she said. Ronstadt listened to Young a lot when she was on the road touring, and particularly loved this song. Two of the trio had previously recorded the song: Parton included a version with Alison Krauss on her 1996 album Treasures, and Ronstadt did a cover for her 1995 album Feels Like Home. I guess every verse has something different I'd taken.'" It just depends on what I was taking at the time. We asked him, flat out, what it meant, and he said, 'Hell, I don't know. So we called Neil Young, and he didn't know. Said Parton: "When we were doing the Trio album, I asked Linda and Emmy what it meant, and they didn't know. When Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt recorded it in 1999 for their collaboration Trio II, they got some unique insight into the song from the man who wrote it. The song has been covered a variety of artists, including Thom Yorke of Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds. ![]()
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