Zuma (album)
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| Studio album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse | ||||
| Released | November 10, 1975 | |||
| Recorded | June 16, 1974 – August 29, 1975 | |||
| Studio | Broken Arrow Ranch, Redwood City, CA and Pt. Dume, CA | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, country rock, roots rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 36:34 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
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Neil Young, David Briggs Neil Young, Tim Mulligan "Pardon My Heart," "Lookin' for a Love," and "Through My Sails" |
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Pitchfork | 8.7/10 |
Zuma is the seventh studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records in 1975. Co-credited to Crazy Horse, it includes "Cortez the Killer," one of Young's best-known songs. It peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified a gold record by the RIAA.
The death of guitarist and bandmate Danny Whitten from a drug overdose in 1972 affected Young greatly, and left the Crazy Horse band without its leader and songwriter. Young went out on tour in late 1973 with a band dubbed the Santa Monica Flyers, composed of the Crazy Horse rhythm section of bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina along with guitarist Nils Lofgren, who had played on Crazy Horse's debut album, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Keith, this group recording most of the tracks for what would be his Tonight's the Night album. After the 1974 stadium tour with Crosby, Stills & Nash and another abandoned attempt at the second CSNY studio album, Young formed a new version of Crazy Horse in 1975 with guitarist Frank Sampedro slotted in alongside Talbot and Molina. This line-up first appeared on this album, and has remained stable to the present day.
Zuma was the first album released after the famed Ditch Trilogy, comprising the albums Time Fades Away, and On the Beach, and Tonight's the Night. Young wrote most of the songs in Zuma during his time living on Sea Level Drive in Malibu, California. though "Through My Sails," originally entitled "Sailboat Song," derives from the spring 1974 rehearsals with CSNY, featuring the quartet on vocals and "Pardon My Heart" was recorded around the same period, originally intended to be released as part of Homegrown.
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