Zuma: Time Traveling with Neil Young | Doctor Dr.

We've discussed many times before that Neil Young is a "time traveler".

Numerous examples abound from "After The Goldrush" to TRANS and "Like An Inca" to "Hitchhiker" to "The Visitor". We even have a resident "time traveler" expert here at TW who drops by from time to time to comment. Hello Jim.?!

ZUMA
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 1975
(REVIEW: Album's In Order)

From Zuma: Sequoia Anderson on time traveling through Neil Young’s Zuma, featuring photographs by Kat Bawden | Doctor Dr:

In 1975, when Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe asked Neil Young about his forthcoming album, Young said “I think I’ll call it My Old Neighborhood. Either that or Ride My Llama.” That album would be released as Zuma in November of that same year, and as Young says in the interview, “It’s weird. I’ve got all these songs about Peru, the Aztecs, and the Incas. Time travel stuff.”

The album came fresh off the death of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten, and a period of general interpersonal turmoil for Young, who fled his ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains to escape the people he had surrounded himself with there.
Mojave Kat Bawden

None of that context meant anything to me, of course, the first time I heard Cortez the Killer pooling out of the studio monitors at 88.9 KUSP, a now defunct public bandwidth originally housed just a handful of miles from Young’s Broken Arrow ranch. My godfather helmed a late night program there, which my father, my uncle, and I would cohost on occasion. The facilities at KUSP, and the nights spent digging through the stacks, were my halcyon days of musical firsts and explorations, and as such Cortez may have been my first experience of music as something totally vast. The song clocks in at seven-and-a-half minutes, which is an eternity when you are young, and is an eternity for radio programming. It’s a song you could live inside, and to some extent all the songs on Zuma are.

More on Zuma: Sequoia Anderson on time traveling through Neil Young’s Zuma, featuring photographs by Kat Bawden | Doctor Dr.

Elizabeth Cook & Mr. Jeremy Dylan
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"That’s one small typo for NBC News,
one giant heart attack for the rust community."
Astronaut Neil Young
Born on November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(See Relax Everyone ... Neil Young is NOT dead | NBC News Mistakenly Reports the Death of 'Astronaut Neil Young' - National - The Atlantic Wire.)

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