"Cowgirl in the Sand" is a song written by Neil Young and first released on his 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere . Young also includes a live version of the song on several albums and on the album Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 4 Way Street . It has also been covered by The Byrds on their self-titled album. Like two other songs from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere , "Cinnamon Girl" and "Down by the River", Young writes "Cowgirl in the Sand" when he has a cold with high fever at his home in Topanga, California.
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Lyrics and music
The lyrics are about dating women, or maybe three different women if each verse describes a different woman. Author Nigel Williamson describes the lyrics as "vague and dreamlike, addressed to some idealized woman." Music critic Johnny Rogan describes the lyrics as "oblique", describing the woman as "idealist" and "idealized" by the singer, referring mainly to the line "When so much love you, is it the same?" Writer David Downing points out that this line reflects ambiguity, whether the increase in sexual freedom is a blessing or whether it is a curse. Downing, however, feels that the next line, "it's the woman inside you that makes you want to play this game", is outdated when the song was released in the late 1960s. At the time of the song's initial release, Rolling Stone described the lyrics as "quietly accusative". Young himself has claimed that "Cowgirl in the Sand" is about his impression of "beach in Spain", despite the fact that when he wrote songs he had never been to Spain.
Writer Ken Bielen suggested the interpretation of the lyrics, in which Young sang about himself. Sand in the title can be a reference for young people coming to California, which has many beaches. The woman in the first paragraph could be a disguised reference to Young, since Young moved from Canada to California. Lines like "Long enough now to change your name" and "Have your band started to rust" could be a reference for Young's departure from the Buffalo Springfield band. Sentence "When so much love you, is it the same?" could be a reflection of Young's own ambivalence of fame, and in Bielen's interpretation, the disturbing line Downing, "that woman inside you that makes you want to play this game", could be a reference to Young believing that his own feminine side causes him to seek fame though the famous harassment is interesting.
"Cowgirl in the Sand" music, such as "Down by the River", is based on the chorus of the minor chord to the major chord. Also like "Down by the River", this song features some guitar solos featuring criticism described by Toby Creswell as "distortion and chaos". Young plays a distorted guitar part after each of the three choruses. Williamson claimed that the song included "some of the most powerful and never played guitar lead guitar ever recorded". Music critic Matthew Greenwald describes Young's guitar playing as "his most prickly guitar journey". Rogan noted, that it "has been acknowledged as a prime example of Young's distinctive guitar work, musing." However, when the song was first released, Rolling Stone , while noting that "lead guitar, or soaring, piercing and driving, keeps the song going", thinks Young's guitar works on this song "inferior" To it's on the previous song. Rolling Stone considers Young's vocal appearance as "a real key to the success of this song", especially praising the "depth" of his voice.
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Reception
Music critic Matthew Greenwald described "Cowgirl in the Sand" as "one of the most enduring compositions of Neil Young" and "true classics". Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield called it and "Down by the River" the "key tracks" in Everybody Knows This is Nowhere , called them "long, violent guitars, trivial -tel above the nine-minute mark with no trace of expertise at all, just a staccato guitar boom that sounds like Young's parachuting into the midst of Hatfield-McCoy's feud. "
Other appearances
After the initial appearance on Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, "Cowgirl in the Sand" has been included in several compilation albums of Neil Young, including the Decade , The Biggest Hits and The Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972 . The live version has been included in The Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972, Stayed at Massey Hall 1971 and Stayed at Fillmore East .
The Byrds covered "Cowgirl in the Sand" on their 1973 album Byrds . The song has also been covered by The Magic Numbers, City and Color and Josie Cotton, among others.
References
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