Zuma (album)

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Zuma
Neil Young & Crazy Horse studio album

Publication
(s)

November 1975

Label (s) Reprise Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

9

running time

36:34

occupation Neil Young - vocals, guitar
tracks 1, 2, 4 to 8:
Frank Sampedro - guitar
Billy Talbot - bass, backing vocals
Ralph Molina - drums, backing vocals
track 3:
Tim Drummond - bass
track 9:
David Crosby - vocals, guitar
Stephen Stills - vocals, bass
Graham Nash - vocals, guitar
Russ Kunkel - congas

production

Neil Young, David Briggs , Tim Mulligan

chronology
Tonight's the Night
(1975) 		Zuma American Stars' n Bars
(1977)

Zuma is a rock - album of Neil Young and Crazy Horse , which in November 1975 on Reprise Records was released. Young's seventh solo LP is named after Zuma Beach in Los Angeles and is his first concept album.

General

Zuma was the return to rock after several rather gloomy and commercially unsuccessful albums, most recently On the Beach and Tonight's the Night , as most recently with Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere five years earlier . It was also the first LP with Crazy Horse after the death of guitarist Danny Whitten , who was replaced by Frank Sampedro. Through My Sails was recorded with Crosby, Stills and Nash . The album was released on CD in 1989 by Reprise.

The album is about Peru , the Incas and the Aztecs . Its undisputed highlight among fans and critics is the penultimate song Cortez the Killer . Because of the critical portrayal of the conqueror Hernán Cortés (or Hernando Cortez), who was still regarded as a hero in Spain during the Franco era, in this song, the album was banned there.

Bud Scopa wrote in Rolling Stone on January 15, 1976 : “Neil Young's ninth solo record, Zuma, is by far the best album he has ever made. It's the most cohesive concept album I've ever come across, even if I didn't notice it right away. ”Young returned to Native American subjects in later albums, such as: B. in the song Pocahontas on Rust Never Sleeps (1979) and in Like an Inca on Trans (1983).

Track list

  1. Don't Cry No Tears - 2:34
  2. Danger Bird - 6:54
  3. Pardon My Heart - 3:49
  4. Lookin 'for a Love - 3:17
  5. Barstool Blues - 3:02
  6. Stupid Girl - 3:13
  7. Drive Back - 3:32
  8. Cortez the Killer - 7:29
  9. Through My Sails - 2:41

illustration

The album cover is a simple black and white drawing by James Mazzeo: "Danger Bird" (song title) on the back of a naked woman, who flies past a pyramid with outspread wings or arms . In the background the naive depiction of snow-capped mountain peaks, the setting sun and the moon.

success

Zuma reached number 25 in the US Billboard LP charts. Two singles were released from the album: Lookin 'for a Love with Sugar Mountain, which was not included on Zuma and previously released several times, as the B-side and Drive Back b / w Stupid Girl .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thrasher's Wheat - A Neil Young Archives, Analysis of Cortez the Killer lyrics (English)
  2. ^ Neil Young - Rolling Stones Facts, 1995, Hannibal-Verlag, ISBN 3-85445-150-4 , p. 169
  3. ↑ AMG, Neil Young & Crazy Horse Zuma , Chart & Awards: Billboard Albums

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