Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
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| Studio album by Neil Young with Crazy Horse | ||||
| Released | May 14, 1969 | |||
| Recorded | January & March 1969 | |||
| Studio | Wally Heider Recording, San Francisco, California | |||
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| Length | 40:29 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Neil Young, David Briggs | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  |
| Pitchfork Media | (10/10) |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
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| Robert Christgau | B+ |
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by the Canadian musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records catalogue RS 6349. His first with his longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard 200 and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The album is on the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
The album contains four songs that became standards in Young's performance repertoire: "Cinnamon Girl", "Down by the River", the title track, and "Cowgirl in the Sand", all of which were written in a single day while Young had a 103 °F (39.5 °C) fever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Young's lead vocal track on the song "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (on the original album) was actually a temporary scratch vocal he sang through the low quality talk-back microphone on the mixing board, with no effects such as reverb. Young liked the stark contrast to the rest of the recording, which became one of his many innovations.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was remastered and released on HDCD-encoded compact disc and digital download on July 14, 2009, as part of the Neil Young Archives Original Release Series. It was released on audiophile vinyl in December 2009, both individually and as part of a box-set of Young's first four LPs available via his official website. (This box set was limited to 1000 copies. A CD version of 3000 copies exists, too.) A high resolution digital Blu-ray disc is planned, although there has been no release date set.
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