Broken Arrow (album)

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"But anyway, the bottom line was, I had no clue. No clue at all that those were the songs we were going to be recording the next day and I was supposed to be learning. Taking shorthand and paying attention. I was just going, 'I don't know if I like that one. That's hard.' When it finally got recorded and put on a record, we were sitting in a studio one day after David passed. I just played "Changing Highways". Neil said, 'Wow, that was pretty cool, Ponch.' I said, 'Well, you know, ever since that session, I really wanted to record it with you again and I practiced it all these years. Just in case you ever pulled it out, I'd be ready.' He said, 'Well, it sounded so good. We should do it.'" [7]

Young's association with "Baby What You Want Me to Do" dates from his earliest days singing in a music group, The Squires, as a teenager. He remembers his early fondness for Jimmy Reed in his memoir, Super Deluxe:

"I loved the simplicity and honesty that oozed from every one of his songs. His voice was not amazing and his harmonica was simple and direct, while not being derivative. [...] To me, he was very haunting, one of the greats, a genius original, making the most of the least, with a definitive sound in the blues." [8]

Release

A bonus track, "Interstate", was included on the vinyl record release of the album and the CD single of "Big Time", and is an outtake from the 1990 Ragged Glory sessions. Although he would make Looking Forward with Crosby, Stills & Nash released in 1999, this record would be the last studio album by Neil Young for four years and the last in a string of rock albums broken only by Harvest Moon . [9]

Track listing

All tracks by Neil Young, except where noted.

Broken Arrow
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Broken Arrow.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 2, 1996
RecordedMarch 21 – April 17, 1996
StudioPlywood Digital, Woodside, California (except "Baby What You Want Me to Do": Old Princeton Landing, Princeton-by-the-Sea, California)
Genre
Length47:02
Label Reprise
Producer Neil Young
Neil Young chronology
Dead Man
(1996)
Broken Arrow
(1996)
Year of the Horse
(1997)
Crazy Horse chronology
Sleeps with Angels
(1994)
Broken Arrow
(1996)
Year of the Horse
(1997)
Broken Arrow track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Big Time" 7:24
2."Loose Change" 9:49
3."Slip Away" 8:36
4."Changing Highways" 2:28
5."Scattered (Let's Think About Livin')" 4:13
6."This Town" 2:59
7."Music Arcade" 3:59
8."Baby What You Want Me to Do" Jimmy Reed 8:08
Vinyl bonus track
No.TitleLength
9."Interstate"6:24

Personnel

Crazy Horse

Additional roles

Charts

Chart performance for Broken Arrow
Chart (1996)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [10] 43
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [11] 25
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [12] 13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [13] 21
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [14] 26
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [15] 19
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [16] 24
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [17] 12
French Albums (SNEP) [18] 42
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [19] 13
Italian Albums (FIMI) [20] 42
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [21] 27
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [22] 9
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [23] 14
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [24] 25
UK Albums (OCC) [25] 17
US Billboard 200 [26] 31

References

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  6. Mcdonough, Jimmy. 2003. Shakey: Neil Young's Biography. New York: Anchor Books.
  7. Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview. 2021. Aquarium Drunkard. April 20, 2021. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/04/20/frank-poncho-sampedro-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/.
  8. Young, Neil. 2015. Special Deluxe. New York, New York: Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
  9. Thomas, Stephen (1996-07-02). "Broken Arrow - Neil Young, Neil Young & Crazy Horse : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
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