🎵 Neil Young - Southern Man REACTION
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You guys don't really believe they had auto tune back then? That was Neil's voice That is actually how he sounds a very unique and wonderful voice.
They didnt have auto tune but they did have other ways of altering their voices. Not saying Neil Young did it in this song but it was done back then.
@@Michael-mv3kc Yeah I was just giving them a hard time because people today seem to think singers always auto tuned. Back in the day they could do most of the things with the voice they just didn't have a particular device to do it. That's why even back then some singers didn't sound good live.I know both Roger Waters of Floyd and Jerry Garcia of the Dead couldn't come close to matching their studio vocals live.
Absolutely true.
People who have always heard music auto tuned do find it hard to remember that auto tune has not always existed.
There’s a lot of distortion on the verse vocals to be fair.
@@daviebananas1735 I don’t think there is.., I think it’s the microphone he was using and the volume he was singing at close to the mic… His vocals were usually pretty raw anyway.
Oh no! You need a do over with the full song. That version was a horrible representation of a great song. Also... no auto tune. That's Neil Young. His voice is distinct and amazing.
That’s because they make the same mistakes all the reactors make, they listen to a live version as opposed to the studio version!!
Yup totally destroyed the song
@@kevinmcconnell9426 nope this is NOT LIVE and Neil's Live is way better than acoustic
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN really? Then why wasn’t that the version they put on the original release album?
Of course this is only my opinion, live versions are all about impromptu solo’s, and never close to the song writers initial vision of what they wanted the song to be, but that is just my opinion.
@@kevinmcconnell9426 That's silly. Sometimes studio recordings are lightning in a bottle, but other times they aren't as good as certain live versions. It's very kind of you to assume that every single studio recording is the perfect representation of an artist's vision, but incredibly naive.
This was Neil Young pointing out slavery and racism in the old south. That is his natural voice, no auto tune. If you've ever heard sweet home Alabama there is a line in that song that says "Neil Young tried to put her down (the south) well I hope Neil Young will remember a southern man don't need him around anyhow." There was a rumor going around for a long time that Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young became enemies but none of that was true. Sometimes you can see the lead singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd wearing a Neil Young T-Shirt just to show they were actually cool with each other.
That is a great story. Respect is great to see and hear. (especially now, when we see it so seldom)
Please do it again with the FULL VERSION. These lyric videos are sometimes truly abysmal and this one mutilated this classic song. Such a shame...
I agree… Lyric videos are a distraction from the music…. The song! Brad is numb to music….and needs to analyse just the lyrics in a very literal way. Think he’d be best off having a poetry review channel.
I don't get why a big YT react channel with 220k subscribers doesn't even check properly what they're reacting to? Pretty much all artists have their own official RUclips channels - why not go straight to the official version rather than shitty fan lyric uploads from 10 years ago?
They cut the entire solo out in the middle... wtf
@@27Finbarr Yeah, I really want to like these reactions, but Brad is a one-trick pony. He ONLY focuses on the lyrics and nothing else. He doesn't discuss the music at all, nor does he feel the music being played. He'd be better off not having any audio playing at all and just break out the lyrics sheet of every song. Lex appeases him by not watching official music videos. I'm sure he's somewhere on the spectrum. He literally can't hear music or process instruments (musical composition). He is only drawn to words and is lost if the lyrics are not on the screen. Lex could greatly benefit from a real MUSIC fan sitting next to her to discuss the actual MUSIC and not only analyze the lyrics. It's mind boggling that after a year and a half nothing has changed at all. Brad puts ZERO effort into trying to learn about music and show some appreciation for it.
@@27Finbarr We can agree to disagree on that one. I mean, Lex already hardly pays the lyrics any attention while listening, but at least now she does at least sometimes look over and read snippets. Without that, unless the lyrics are very clear, she'd hardly ever have any idea of what a song was about. She might not know even then, because it seems she often just concentrates on the music. But also, with harder and faster songs, it can definitely sometimes help them appreciate the song if they understand a little more what it's about. I think with Brad it's largely just a case of him having grown up with completely different music, songs with not a lot of metaphor or allegory or nuance, very straightforward, literal stuff - but heh, he's getting better.
You got a seriously abbreviated version. There is a great guitar solo. Neil Young's voice is pure passion. Cortez the Killer, County Girl, A Man Needs a Maid, The Needle and the Damage is Done.
You only heard half the song. Remember who posted that lyric video and NEVER choose them again. That was a terrible crime to cut out the guitar solo and outro. Imagine if they cut the guitar solo and outro from Freebird.... get a refund. get your money back...
Yes, Brad & Lex need to experience 'Cortez the Killer'. I need to hear it again too.
This version should be illegal!
Disgraceful!
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Anyway, adding to the other songs above: "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Don't Let It Bring You Down".
I always keep the Free World Rockin with fifth feel like it's my job Pearl Jam Pearl Jam and Neil Young The song is called Keep On Rockin the Free World Brothers I'll ride now you got it
Don't forget brother Keep On Rockin in the Free World
YES!!! Umm . . . no special effect on the voice and they didn't have autotune in the 1972. Only effects they used back then were compression (which doesn't really alter the sound, just brings it forward) and reverb. Neil Young sings in a falsetto. That's natural. Lex nailed the Sweet Home Alabama criticism of Neil Young. No it doesn't end that abruptly and there was a section cut out in the middle of your video. Neil Young often takes trips through the past, just check out Cortez the Killer.
After the Gold Rush was released in 1970.
There is a lot of distortion on the verse vocals to be fair.
@@chaosandcreation4118 Oh yeah, I was thinking of Harvest. I always listened to this song off Decade, so forgot where it came from.
@@daviebananas1735 True. Didn't really want to get too detailed on vocal effects that are just regular studio preferences back then.
I always thought at points it sounded like he was singing through a high impedance mic, almost has that dry, ' bowling alley ' intercom sound.
That voice is all Neil. Some hate it, I love it.
Love it. But totally get it that it's not everyone's cup of tea! Geddy Lee falls into that love it/ hate it camp. Love Geddy too ;p. Edit= spellchecker changed to Gaddy.
Voice was good but he wasn't
Yup, like Dylan and Jagger, who also have unusual vocals some just don't 'get'.
He sings in falsetto - similarly Barry Gibb, when they sing very high notes.
@@filthymcnasty4u284 Bullshit!!
That voice is all Neil.
the ended way early, you all picked a bad recording, the song was from 1970
Neil Young's body of work during 60's and 70's is outstanding. His guitar solo's are legendary. I suggest you go deep on Neil Young.
That version of the song was severely cut. A central guitar solo was removed and the song was truncated at the end. Who does that? Lol
Yup chalk it up to lousy picks of requesters again!!!
NOOOOOO AUTOTUNE EVER!!! Neil Young has never used that shit, and never will, he doesn't need it. He has enough talent in his ear lobes to shame most people. "Sweet Home Alabama" was Skynyrd's answer to Neil for "Southern Man", hence the line "I hope Neil Young will remember that a Southern Man don't need him around anyhow." They a ll became friends afterwards, and Ronnie Van Zant would wear Neil Young T shirts during Skynyrd concerts, and Neil and the members of his backing band Crazy Horse would wear Lynyrd Skynyrd T's during their concerts. All good. Also, the song version you listened to was shortened, twice. Autotune is a 21st century abomination on music, and should be banned.
1000%
@@fletcherchristian2254 No maybe Fletcher, as we all know.
There was plenty effect on that main vocal; he blew out the treble and dropped all the lows when this was recorded. It certainly wasn't auto-tune, which didn't exist at the time, but he recorded that vocal in that fashion by design, for sure.
@@richarddefortuna2252 I'm not sure what studio wizardry they used back then, I just know Neil Young would puke at the thought of Auto-Tune. Brad seems to think A-T has always existed, just a little naive.
Uncle Neil is the man. Brilliant throughout the decades and was producing two albums a year not long ago. Genius at work Lexy
Neil’s Ohio with CSNY is superb.
He's a garbage opportunist.
My fav. Neil Young track. That guitar is killing it. So organic. No autotune at that time. No effect on the voice, just him. But where is the amazing solo????
As usually wimpy requesters get the lousy version should had done 4 way street live version with the Interplay with Neil and Stephen!!! This version was disgustingly cut!!! Horrible tragedy
Southern Man wasn't the only Neil Young song that Sweet Home Alabama was a direct response to. He also had a song called Alabama on his famous album Harvest (which also included Old Man, Heart of Gold, and the Needle and the Damage Done). In Sweet Home Alabama there was the line "Well I heard Mr Young sing about her, & I heard old Neil put her down" (her is referring to Alabama), then followed by "and I hope Neil Young will remember, the Southern Man don't need him around anyhow." (That line directly referred to this song, & the previous one did to the song Alabama). Also legend has it that Ronnie Van Zant, lead vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd was actually such a big Neil Young fan that he asked to be buried in a Neil Young t-shirt
Yes, every thing I've always heard.
They were friends, Neil wrote Powderfinger for Lynyrd Skynyrd but unfortunately tragedy happened
I don't have to comment now. Thanks. Most people think it's just about Southern Man and it really wasn't. That being said, I always felt that Skynyrd picked the wrong rack to hill to die on when they called out Neil Young. It turned me off to their music and I avoid listening to them after they took this stance.
Neil Young 👍
Lynyrd Skynyrd 👎
@@andrewft31 No I don't believe they were. They did not like Neil Young at all. Lynyrd Skynyrd did not need Neil Young to write songs for them anyway. And neither does Joe Rogan.
I was with you till the big Neil young fan and the T-shirt thing. Some FM station was saying this just days after the plane crash. As if everything was cool between Young and Skynyrd. It was not. Much like politics or sports not everyone is friends just because they are in the same arena.
"Alabama" is a song from Neil Young worthy of a review as well, guys!!!
Autotune didn't exist in the early 70s. That was all Neil. Good catch on the Sweet Home Alabama connection. They either all were or became good friends. Cortez the Killer is another great song, or Like a Hurricane, Powderfinger, or lots more.
Yeah Rachel,
Powderfinger is my favorite.
There was distortion used on his voice in this.
100% Neil. Sorry you chopped it up. The musical interlude is SUPER.
I think the lyric video maker chopped it, too bad.
Neil is autotune free. Do "The Needle and the Damage Done" next.
There was distortion used on his voice in this.
You guys need to have someone screen your videos, this isn't even a quarter of the song. You did Neil dirty. You need to redo this one because it's a killer track, and then check out Alabama, the other song that Neil did that resulted in Sweet Home Alabama.
Oh, and that is his voice singing. He had a unique voice. A lot of people thought he should just play guitar and not sing which would have been tragic because I love his voice.
The guitars on this are absolutely blistering (not unlike the social commentary).
This version was really chopped up .They completely eliminated the guitar solo. Listen to the studio version, you won't need the lyrics written out. Lex, I thing you would really like the solo. 😁✌🧡
No listen to the Live 4 way street version with duals solos !!! But that's what you get with requesters wanting lousy versions
I've never even have heard this short version of the song. The radio always plays the Gnarly lead at the end your ears were cheated friends 😔✌♥️
Yeah theres guitar magic missed here!
Just his voice! Neil is a legend.
There was distortion used on his voice in this.
Like a Hurricane, Cortez The Killer, Cowgirl in the Sand. The trio of excellence. Guitar solos galore. My father introduced me to him and I’ve never turned my back.
All great songs. I would add Danger Bird.
Niel Young! He's a good Canadian musician. Many great songs from him. Folk hippie rock. Good breakdown of the song! Yall are correct about the song meaning, too.This was late '60s, early '70s. Listen to some of The Mynah Birds, too. 🎸 They were a Canadian funk rock, R&B, garage rock band back in the '60s, they have good songs too. From Toronto, Ontario. Neil Young and Rick James was in that band together. James (RIP) was from Buffalo, NY. Which is near Toronto on US/Canadian border. That video for the song was butchered, and shortened, missing great solo, too 😆
Y'all watched a bad version of this all of the instrumental stuff is cut out of the song. It's all clipped up. Bummer.
Neil is an ambulance chaser.
His voice in this song sounded like THE ambulance. I’m not a complete voice hater: I do very much like the singing in “Old Man”, “Cinnamon Girl”, “Ohio”.
@@LowcountryJoe2 Ohio was another one of those ambulances whose bumpers he was chewing on. Any time something happens in the US he sang a song about it. Notice he didn't write any songs about the dozens or hundreds of Indians the Canadian government buried in shallow graves via the Residential School system? According to the New York Times, the number of childrens' remains found buried in unmarked graves in Manitoba is 751... Meanwhile, only 4 people died at Kent State to inspire Neil to write Ohio. Neil's father was from Manitoba... not a damn word from him... I don't give him one inch of leeway cause he only seems to care about selling albums. 4 people out of a country of 200M vs 751 out of 30M. Seems like complaining about the speck in our eye while ignoring the clod in his own...
I like how y'all get right into the music. No bs-ing for a minute or two before the music or subject.
Good job, thumbs up.
Exactly- Spin the song and then let's review it afterwards. I hate those 5-10 intros of talking before the song.
Yes
Young is an environmentalist[205] and outspoken advocate for the welfare of small farmers, having co-founded in 1985 the benefit concert Farm Aid. He worked on LincVolt, the conversion of his 1959 Lincoln Continental to hybrid electric technology as an environmentalist statement.[206][207] In 1986, Young helped found The Bridge School,[208] an educational organization for children with severe verbal and physical disabilities, and its annual supporting Bridge School Benefit concerts, together with his former wife Pegi Young.[209]
Young is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.[210]
One of my favorite Neil Young tracks
It was this song and a song called “Alabama” by Neil Young that drew the response from Lynyrd Skynyrd.
That sound of distortion is "over-modulation" of the microphone. Neil is singing so loud into it its breaking up. Same with the guitar. Its add more passion, and Neil is hard-core passionate. One of his nicknames was "The Real, Neil, Young". The Lynyrd Skynyrd song was a response to Neil's song.
Nope this version sucks and was sliced and diced!!! Can't believe you didn't play 4 way street version of this with the dual solos by Neil and Stills !! This was disgusþing
Actually released in 70. Need to hear Skynyrds, Sweet home Alabama for the response to this song. Neil was always a great advocate for human rights. It will also tell you everything you need to know about Skynyrd
Skynyrd sang, "Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her...Well I heard old Neil put her down...Well I hope Neil Young will remember...a Southern Man don't need him around anyhow."
Guys I've heard you mention auto-tuned so many times I want you to know it wasn't invented and released until 1997 that means all songs before 1997 did not have Auto-Tune.
I'm a Neil Young expert , lol, I have been listening to him for years and years, and all time favorite. I can remember as a kid back in the early 70's my father would hear me listening to him, and he commented that Neil sounded like a sick cow whining out in the pasture, lol
That is simply Neil's voice. He is considered the second coming of a Bob Dylan. This song was almost selected for the civil rights movement. It was one of the songs along with his rendition of Alabama that gave you the song from another band, Sweet Home Alabama , which of course was by Lynard Skynard and Ronnie van zant. You will interestingly notice that the late Ronnie Van Zant is wearing a T-shirt of Neil young on stage while performing in Oakland of the song Sweet Home Alabama. It's from his "Tonight's the night " album. Neil has many genres to explore, and was kind of all over the place with his brand of music. He was definitely a strange duck from Canada who appealed to the early to mid 1960's rock and roll scene, and played in such bands as the Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills & Nash or CSNY , and then his own band so named Crazy Horse. He once played with the likes of Rick James, and even did a few concerts with Pearl Jam. He is also known as the GodFather of Grunge
Thanks for that, man. I'm no expert, but a big fan. Have seen him twice in concert. The first time, at Agribition in Regina, lol - and without Crazy Horse, was my fav. "Hey Hey My My" was so effing rock n' roll, I'll never forget it. They did like 3 big stomps on the bass drum and with bass after that line. During another song, Neil played an organ he had to pump with his feet while he played to push air through, sang, and played harmonica. It was crazy. I still think of Neil Young as a guy from Manitoba, he's gotta have a place in the middle of nowhere there, lol. Churns put music, pops his head out for a cause he likes, then back into his hidey hole.
Hey right on some rocking Neil I love both...great song
It's so good to hear from the comments that Van Zant was a huge Neil Young fan. I love both their music. Lynard Skynard was amazing, and what can I say about Neil Young that hasn't been said. The man was a genius. Amazing song writer and amazing performer. You all need to hear the complete song. Don't know why it was cut off like that.
Brad & Lex, his "Heart Of Gold" and"Harvest Moon" are next for you!! edit- its from 1970, no auto-tune.
No no no no more wimpy acoustic!!!! Ragged Glory or Down By the River something with balls not top 40 acoustic
Harvest Moon is SO pretty.
Neil was a northerner (from Canada) who wrote this song about slavery in the South. Ronnie Van Zandt, a southerner, took offense at a northerner not from the South making comment on the whole southern culture
You know my two sisters and I went and visited "the South" back in early 70 s (to meet and visit our aunts for the first time) and we were STUNNED that EVEN then, as we drove down the highways, their were "SHACKS" on the side of the road where the Blacks sold weaved baskets and lived in poverty. I remember an historical film clip, where Robert Kennedy "visited" a few of these "shacks' that someone took him too and he met and talked with these poor Black people, Robert was STUNNED that Black's were STILL living this way, he had no idea. It changed his entire life and as he ran for president, he then was shot and killed. Those "scenes" are embedded in my memory, so this song "Southern Man" I feel is straight up correct and true history and the fact even though there was no more slavery, the many "Southern states" of how "Black people" still lived in poverty and there was plenty of prejudice that we witnessed from "White people" "in the Southern states" on that trip. I, like Robert Kennedy was also STUNNED that Black people in America were STILL living in poverty, selling woven baskets on the side of the highways, living in beat up wooden SHACKS!
That voice is 100% pure Neil Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Almost Cut My Hair
Yeah
I've seen Neil Young twice with Crazy Horse (once at an outdoor arena under a full moon). He's just an epic songwriter and guitarist... absolutely a legend. I also got to see Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young at Farm Aid 4 in Indy. Just phenomenal!
There are no "special effects" used on Neil's voice!! That is his voice!
This is such a great song!
It tells a true story!
Neil Young was a member of Buffalo Springfield, and CSNY.
Yes Lex you are correct Lynard Skinners sweet home Alabama was a response to this song, in a time when overt racism was more than just acceptable, it was applauded.
The social problems were the same as today, white people being afraid of talking about the truth of Americas history.
I’m a 66(7/1) white guy born n bred st Louisan. I know I’m not responsible for the 250 years of slavery, nor the 100 years of Jim Crow activities. But I’m not embarrassed or offend to admit it happened, and in far to many circumstances, still alive and thriving today!
Bigotry in any form, against any group that s a complete waste of time and energy!
This song came out first then Lynyrd Skynyrd responded with their song Sweet Home Alabama.
This song inspired one of the lyrics in Lynyrd Skynyrd's song Sweet Home Alabama. Lyric: "Well I heard Mister Young sing about her. Well I heard ol' Neil put her down. Well I hope Neil Young will remember. A southern man don't need him around anyhow .... Sweet Home Alabama ..."
Yeah because they thought he was trying to paint all southern people with a broad brush
In Muscle Shoals they had the Swampers, the white studio band playing on the great r&b records. There is a good documentary of the same name that shows their place in music history.
Neil is considered and called the godfather of grunge.
"Sweet Home Alabama" is a response to "Southern Man." In "Sweet Home Alabama" the lyrics go:
" I heard Mister Young sing about her.
Well I heard ol' Neil put her down.
Well I hope Neil Young will remember,
A southern man don't need him around anyhow"
Just to let you guys know. Auto-tune/ pitch correction wasn’t invented/ used until late 90’s. So all of the music you hear, especially live concerts from before that date were the true sound of the musicians voices.
But if it is cut!! I'm sorry you chose an incomplete version!!
At the beginning of his career, the record company said that Neil Young could never sing, he did not have a good voice. He has been singing for about 50 years and, without being Pavarotti, he is able to play with several registers very effectively and does not mind going off script to try to provoke emotions in the listener. Take a look at "tired eyes", "bandit" or "after the gold rush" for example.
And without playing the guitar very well, he has been able to get incredible sounds out of it, like in "like a hurricane", where he seems more like a squeezer than a musical instrument 😀
Indeed this song and another titled Alabama were the germen of sweet home Alabama.
Those words cut deep....very deep. A total condemnation on the 'sins' of the South
The whole world...
In his 2012 biography Waging Heavy Peace, Young went as far as apologising for both tracks: “‘Alabama’ richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record,” he said. “I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue.”
This is his real voice, then and now. It was the 70's!
Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote their song "Sweet Home Alabama" in response to "Southern Man" and "Alabama" from Young's 1972 album Harvest. Young has said that he is a fan of both "Sweet Home Alabama" and Ronnie Van Zant, the lead vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd. "They play like they mean it," Young said in 1976. "I'm proud to have my name in a song like theirs."[2] Young has also been known to play "Sweet Home Alabama" in concert occasionally. To demonstrate this camaraderie, Van Zant frequently wore a Neil Young Tonight's the Night T-shirt while performing "Sweet Home Alabama".[3] Crazy Horse bassist Billy Talbot can often be seen reciprocating by wearing a Jack Daniel's-styled Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt (including at the Live Rust concert).
Brad Lex..with all due respect...Mr Young deserves a full version uncut play..a do over might be in order.. he has tons of good songs try Old Man peace out🤠✌
No additional effect on Neil's voice (other than doubling, some reverb, maybe sleight echo). Classic rock vocalists didn't need autotune, they could actually sing. Lexi is correct; this song came first, "Sweet Home Alabama" was the response.
Classic neil young❤️❤️✌️✌️✌️
The song was on the album After the Gold Rush by Neil Young 1970
Love that you are listening to some Canadian folk singers. Old Man Live is the best. Storyteller at his best. No auto tune back in the 70's raw talent
Folk.......Neil Young is all Rock and Roll.
Check out Thrasher ... I think that's the title....puts his talent on display
that is NEIL YOUNG's voice...unique as hell.
"A Southern Man don't need him around anyhow"
No that’s his voice. He’s singing about southern racists. This was during the time period of the south fighting against desegregation. He was calling them out.
But you know what they were doing in the south then besides just loving nature? Being racists and fighting for white supremacy. I get to say that because I grew up here and racist was the rule, not the exception.
True words, Queen. It's appalling how quickly people rush in to soft peddle hate, even today. The song's cowriter, Ed King posted:
"I can understand where the "boo boo boo" would be misunderstood. It's not US going "boo" ... it's what the Southern man hears the Northern man say every time the Southern man'd say "In Birmingham we love the gov'nor". Get it? "We all did what WE could do!" to get Wallace elected. It's not a popular opinion but Wallace stood for the average white guy in the South. "Watergate doesn't bother me" because that stuff happens in politics...but someone's conscience ought to bother them for what happened to Wallace. Arthur Bremer may or may not have been a yankee but he sure destroyed whatever chance Wallace had to be president. And hardly anyone in America noticed. I still like the plaque that hangs here in my office that says I'm an honorary member of the Alabama State Militia...signed personally by George C. Sure, the man had his flaws. But he spoke for the common man of the South. And, whoa, I'm gonna get in trouble over this whole dang post!"
This is Neil Young's real voice. Listen to his live performanceat the BBC studio.
Nope listen to 4 way street live rock!!! Stop the wimpy acoustic Neil!!! Or do Cinnamon Girl but LIVE this time
Thank you for sharing this with me
The song was recorded in 1969, they had no auto-tune back then. Auto-tune came in late 90's, so about 30 years later.
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In his 2012 biography, Young went as far as apologising for both tracks: “‘Alabama’ richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record,” he said. “I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue.”
Nice, I've never heard him say that.
I don't know, seems to me like Skynyrd is on the wrong side of history on this one.
@@BalbazaktheGreat you need to listen to Skynard again. He say they did what they could do. Governor George Wallace was the problem..i dont deny the racism that was in the South. Neil and Ronnie got to respect one another and were going to try to perform together. Ronnie died in the plane crash before it could happen...
@@jayjordan7104 The line is: "In Birmingham they love the governor (boo-hoo-hoo)
Now we all did what we could do." I don't know, but that doesn't exactly sound like opposition to me, especially when the end of the song has "Where the skies are so blue, And the governor's true" as a follow up. Sweet Home Alabama is a legendary song, but it's a piss-poor reply to "Southern Man" and "Alabama" as social criticism. Now, don't get me wrong - Skynard is the greatest Southern Rock band of all time, I don't think they were racist, but they were proud southern boys waving the stars and bars and they got this one wrong. No after-the-fact justifications are going to change that.
@@bigjunk59 Yeah, I don't buy that post-hoc interpretation of that line, not one bit. That said, let me repeat that I don't think Skynard was racist. I just think their response to Young was misguided.
I love that they're grooving on all of these classics songs.
I don't know if this is something readily digestible. Neil Young was a megaphone for the inequities of the nation. He was Canadian and perhaps that gave him a unique perspective but Holy Shit! Talking about holding a mirror up. He drew a lot of hatred on himself yet he never stopped. To me, he's a hero.
His voice. Nuff said.
No effects..That's his voice.
Canadians just don't really understand slavery, so it's more of a shock to see the after-effects of that in the American South than it is for perhaps Americans not from the South. Canada historically has never had as many blacks as the USA, but of course part of that is not having had slaves. In fact, Canada was a haven for escaped slaves. Uncle Tom's Cabin is in Canada, and the "underground railroad" basically ended in Canada. I had a couple of great-aunts who traveled from eastern Canada down all through the American South, then back up the west coast to Canada back in the 50s. They told me how surprised they were to see the segragation still going on down there. They were visiting before the civil rights movement. Neil Young was around during the civil rights movement, and he would've seen some of the crap going on down in the South. As a songwriter, it would've been natural for him to really want to express something about it all.
I've heard a shorten version but that was ridiculous.
Sweet Home was the response to Alabama...but this fits too lol....they didn't like his generalization of the south, Alabama etc....but to bad lol. During his early time and this songs creation the south wasn't a friendly place for black Americans. Truth hurts eh?
To be completely honest there was still a lot of racism in the south through the mid 80s not has prevalent now has then.
I hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man don't need'em ' round anyhow.
It's fun to watch yall discuss..and Lex using her very interesting and creative... sometimes amazing 📚 reads on these song I herd growing up in Alabama.
This song led to Lynyrd Skynyrd's 2nd biggest hit of their career - Sweet Home Alabama - he called out the good old old southern boys on their past behavior and the couldn't handle the truth about the past sins of their forefathers
Yep!
Have you even listened to Lynrd Skynrd at all?
@@sparkyth67 Many times
In his 2012 biography Young went as far as apologising for both tracks: “‘Alabama’ richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record,” he said. “I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue.”
Seems as if your the reason Van Zant wrote the song. Neil Young learned the lesson of self-righteousness, perhaps you should too
@@reallymysterious4520 you are right in your opinion and also in saying it. Coddling these fools has brought us to the mess we are in today.
Lol as Lynyrd Skynyrd says "A southern Man dont need him around anyhow". And remember kids "Keep on rockin in the free world".
What are you saying?
Lex nailed it on which came first and the response etc… great job
She normally is spot on. Very astute.
Someone drastically edited that and it doesn't end like that. There are no vocal effects on this, it is all his own voice. Stone cold brilliant.
No auto tune there. Neil Young is just that good!
As Skynyrd said. "A southern man don't need him around anyhow". This song was about a hundred years too late.
His vocals are fantastic as always. He has always been able to portray the emotion in a song.
I also think this song is a dig at Christians.
It’s not hard to understand where Skynyrd is coming from. They proudly
display a confederate flag in the background every concert they play.
I read recently though, that they finally stopped.
Sorry, I would be interested what you mean by ‘a dig at Christians.’
Well he’s talking about a particular type of Christian that probably deserves the criticism
It has almost nothing to do with Christians, and everything to do with slavery.
@@justinatest9456 well I’m just thinking about the “good book” line, the southern man in question is obviously a Christian
There were no ‘auto tune’ or anything on the voice, that’s pure Neil Young!
That's pure natural Neil Young, baby!
I do have a soft spot for Neil Young. It's perhaps easier for a foreigner like me to appreciate this song without bearing any cultural or political baggage. I mean, he pigeonholed half the US! As with a lot of early NY, the songwriting and performance are 10x better than the production.
Check out "Long May You Run" - both album and unplugged versions. It's a love song to a car!
He didnt pigeon hole half the country. You probably also think parents are "Domestic Terrorists". And their is systematic racism... smh
@@ridemfast7625 **there is
@@Johonnac Stop making claims and prove it. Is Canada racist? They sure seem to be. Maybe old Neil should write a song about it.
@@Johonnac **There is...??? "there is" what? ie There is fascist Neil trying to shut down Joe Rogan on Spotify. There is hypocrite Neil wanting his music removed from Spotify because of Joe Rogan but Neil does not remove himself from youtube. There is fascist hypocrite Neil on youtube with Joe Rogan despite wanting to be removed from Spotify if Joe Rogan remains on Spotify. There is loser Neil.
@@ridemfast7625 Don't you dare tell me what I "probably think".
Over and out.
Oh no, that song was cut to shit. Like ruined. I really think you guys need to just replace this with the real version, bc this wasn’t it at all. Look for one that’s at least a full minute longer, maybe more.
More like 4 or 5 minutes longer
@@michaelszczepanik700 yeah I was thinking it was much more but didn’t want to overshoot lol. Why anyone would take the entire essence out of this song is beyond me.
Sweet home Alabama was a response, if you will, to Neil Young. They were friends actually and Ronnie Van Zant wore a Neil Young t-shirt. Neil Young wrote a song and asked LS if they would do it.
Revisited this a year later and I think you guys really need to hear the live version off of the "Four Way Street" LP. IIRC Brad finally got it that lead guitar is like another vocal style and in that particulat live version there is a spur of the moment trading session between 3 guitars that is one of the best captured moments of guitar players on fire in a deep conversation. It's potent.
This was Neil's response to the systemic racism that existed then and still exists today. He's saying the South never paid for its sins. Ronnie Van Zant tried to twist it into southern pride and completely missed the point but he and Neil came to a reconciliation before Ronnie's tragic death.
Every other country in the 20-30 years before the Civil War had peaceful resolutions to slavery, with them being compensated for giving up their property and the like. Canada in 1833, a bit before the Civil War started, abolished slavery. Eventually, the entire world abolished slavery with the last country abolishing it in 1981 in Africa. Makes you wonder why America couldn't come to similar resolution to slavery? Maybe there is more to it than what meets first glance.
I specifically mention Canada, because Neil is from there. So his country is above reproach?
Watch documentary on Muscle Shoals aka the home f the Swampers non descript white guys who brought their rythym section and keyboards to many great r and b records including Franklin. The point was the South was an integrated society in the hippie era@bit more than southern Ontario in Canada
@@stanleymyrick4068 Yes Canada and likely any other country isn't above reproach, but at least Canadians didn't slaughter one another to keep it. Sadly it is still legal in the USA, where people in prison are enslaved, as put into the 13th amendment, that was supposed to end slavery, that's a big part of why the USA has the highest per capita incareration rate in the world.
@@traog that is quite the stretch. Slavery as is commonly understood by the word does NOT exist in the US, not anymore. It does still exist however in the Arab world (Dubai, Qatar to name a few). If you want to blast the prison system that's fine, and I'd probably agree with you for the most part, but it is not even close to being equivocal with actual slavery / indentured servitude. Words matter.
Neil Young is a Canadian. This song is a critique of the south. There aren't two sides to this. Lynyrd Skynyrd's song lauded segregationist governor George Wallace and proclaimed that Nixon's (the author of the infamous "southern strategy" of peddling racism) crimes in Watergate didn't bother them. The lyrics to Sweet Home Alabama are indefensible and despicable.
And Sweet Home Alabama is still a better and more popular song.
Cry harder and all that stuff.
Joe Rogan says hi.
listen to Sweet Home Alabama again, it in no way supports Wallace (boo boo boo), it is instead saying if you're gonna blame all southerners for the actions of people like George Wallace, then do you (non-southerners) deserve criticism for actions of people like Richard Nixon
@@BockwinkleB , I'm not crying, I'm disgusted. Some things are more important than whether a song sounds good or is popular. If you support any of that, you're pathetic.
Your self-righteousness is blinding you. Read DanL's comment herein and realize that the song is about you and the mote in your own eye.
@@danl3602 , In fact the whole lyric obviously supports Wallace and also Nixon for that matter: "In Birmingham they love the governor " and "Watergate does not bother me." It speaks for itself loud and clear. In fact, here is what Ed King, the song's cowriter posted:
'I can understand where the "boo boo boo" would be misunderstood. It's not US going "boo" ... it's what the Southern man hears the Northern man say every time the Southern man'd say "In Birmingham we love the gov'nor". Get it? "We all did what WE could do!" to get Wallace elected. It's not a popular opinion but Wallace stood for the average white guy in the South. "Watergate doesn't bother me" because that stuff happens in politics...but someone's conscience ought to bother them for what happened to Wallace. Arthur Bremer may or may not have been a yankee but he sure destroyed whatever chance Wallace had to be president. And hardly anyone in America noticed. I still like the plaque that hangs here in my office that says I'm an honorary member of the Alabama State Militia...signed personally by George C. Sure, the man had his flaws. But he spoke for the common man of the South. And, whoa, I'm gonna get in trouble over this whole dang post!"
This is from 1970. Auto tune was first used commercially in 1998. Jimmy Fallon does a good Neil Young impersonation, and had Young come on the Tonight Show to sing with him.
Y'all are on a roll with the Musicians you've covered today
Decades later, we see Southern Man hasn't really changed except for the name, now it's MAGA Man.
Hes a Democrat fave
And, anarchist fave. 🏴
Auto tune didn't exist when Neil did this. It is 100% his natural voice.
I've seen Neil Young live twice, sounds exactly the same live!