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Cinnamon Girl

"Cinnamon Girl"
Cinnamon Girl.jpg
Cover of German issue single
Single by Neil Young and Crazy Horse
from the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
B-side "Sugar Mountain"
Released April 20, 1970
Format 45 rpm Record
Recorded March 20, 1969 at Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, CA
Genre Hard rock
Length 2:58
Label Reprise
Songwriter(s) Neil Young
Producer(s) Neil Young
David Briggs
Neil Young and Crazy Horse singles chronology
"Down by the River"
(1969)
"Cinnamon Girl"
(1970)
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
(1970)
"Down by the River"
(1969)
"Cinnamon Girl"
(1970)
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
(1970)

"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. Released as a single the following year, it reached #55 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970.

Like two other songs from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down by the River", Young wrote "Cinnamon Girl" while he was suffering from the flu with a high fever at his home in Topanga, California.

This song displays the very prominent role played by Danny Whitten in the sound of Young's early recordings. The vocals are a duet, with Whitten singing the high harmony against Young's low harmony. (The 45 rpm single mix of the song, in addition to being in mono and cutting off the guitar outro, features Whitten's vocal more prominently than the album version.) Young performed the song on his then-recently acquired Gibson Les Paul, "Old Black".

The song was written in Double drop D tuning (DADGBD). This tuning is used in several of his most famous songs, such as "The Loner", "The Old Laughing Lady", "When You Dance I Can Really Love", "Ohio", and "Cortez the Killer". The music features a prominent descending bass guitar line. The song's "one note guitar solo", consisting largely of a repeating, sharply played jangling D note, has often been singled out for praise.


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