Neil Young / Harvest (US, Reprise Records, MS 2032) <February 1, 1972>

Neil Young / Harvest (US, Reprise Records, MS 2032) <February 1, 1972>
(side 1) MS 2032-A 31176-1V
(side 2) MS 2032 B 31177-1BK

ざらざらの独特な質の紙で作られたジャケです。非常に弱く、オリジナル盤のジャケは多少は裂けているのが普通です。昔からプロモを探していますが白ラベル盤やプロモ・ラベルの盤は見たことがありません。検索しても出てきませんし、存在しないのだろうと思っています。

このアルバムにはCSN&Yの残り3人が参加しています。CSN&Yは「Neil Youngの我が強くて解散した」と思ってましたが、別のところで「Stephen Stillsのアルコール乱用・コカイン依存やビッグ・マウスなどに他のメンバーが辟易として解散した」と読みました。結局どうなの？

Neil Young – lead vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, piano, harmonica
Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar
Jack Nitzsche – piano, lap steel guitar, arrangements, orchestration on "A Man Needs A Maid" and "There's A World"
Tim Drummond – bass
Kenny Buttrey – drums
Teddy Irwin – second acoustic guitar on "Heart of Gold"
John Harris – piano on "Harvest"
James McMahon – piano on "Old Man"
James Taylor – banjo guitar, backing vocals on "Heart of Gold" and "Old Man"
Linda Ronstadt – backing vocals on "Heart of Gold" and "Old Man"
David Crosby – backing vocals on "Are You Ready for the Country?" and "Alabama"
Stephen Stills – backing vocals on "Alabama" and "Words"
Graham Nash – backing vocals on "Are You Ready for the Country?" and "Words"
London Symphony Orchestra – orchestra on "A Man Needs A Maid" and "There's A World"

"Words (Between The Lines Of Age)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN53WZjCL_g

Someone and someone
were down by the pond
Looking for something
to plant in the lawn.
Out in the fields they
were turning the soil
I'm sitting here hoping
this water will boil
When I look through the windows
and out on the road
They're bringing me presents
and saying hello.

Singing words, words
between the lines of age.
Words, words
between the lines of age.

If I was a junkman
selling you cars,
Washing your windows
and shining your stars,
Thinking your mind
was my own in a dream
What would you wonder
and how would it seem?
Living in castles
a bit at a time
The King started laughing
and talking in rhyme.

Singing words, words
between the lines of age.
Words, words
between the lines of age.