Crazy Horse (album)
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| Studio album by Crazy Horse | ||||
| Released | February 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Genre | Country rock, roots rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 38:59 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Jack Nitzsche, Bruce Botnick | |||
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
Crazy Horse is the debut album by Crazy Horse, released in 1971 by Reprise Records. It is the only album by the band to feature Danny Whitten, and it peaked at #84 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Members of this band had already released an album in 1968 as The Rockets, and had appeared on record twice with Neil Young as Crazy Horse. The core trio from the Rockets, Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina, provided instrumental backing for Young's 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and performed on some songs from Young's 1970 album After the Gold Rush. Producer/keyboardist Jack Nitzsche, who had been a member of Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew and played on records by The Rolling Stones, had worked with Young on his debut album and on tracks for Buffalo Springfield. He was drafted into Crazy Horse to back up Young on their short tour in early 1970. During sessions for Gold Rush, they met teenage guitar prodigy Nils Lofgren, who joined the band in time for this album, picking up a contract with Reprise Records after the exposure garnered from their association with Young.
This was Whitten's last album release before his death from a drug overdose in 1972. For the recording of this album in the fall of 1970, they also recruited Ry Cooder, who had worked previously with Nitzsche on sessions for the Stones. Cooder plays on three tracks.
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