Zuma (album)

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Zuma
Neil Young-Zuma.jpg
Studio album by
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
ReleasedNovember 10, 1975
RecordedJune 16, 1974 – August 29, 1975
StudioBroken Arrow Ranch, Redwood City, CA and Pt. Dume, CA
GenreHard rock, folk rock, country rock, roots rock[1]
Length36:34
LabelReprise
ProducerNeil Young, David Briggs
Neil Young, Tim Mulligan "Pardon My Heart," "Lookin' for a Love," and "Through My Sails"
Neil Young chronology
Tonight's the Night
(1975) 		Zuma
(1975) 		Long May You Run
(1976)
Crazy Horse chronology
At Crooked Lake
(1972) 		Zuma
(1975) 		Crazy Moon
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars [1]
Christgau's Record GuideA–[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 stars[4]
The Great Rock Discography8/10[5]
MusicHound Rock4/5[6]
Pitchfork8.7/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide4.5/5 stars[7]
Spin Alternative Record Guide9/10[8]
Tom HullB+[9]

Zuma, the seventh studio album by Canadian/American musician Neil Young, was released on Reprise Records in November 1975. Co-credited to Crazy Horse, it includes "Cortez the Killer," one of Young's best-known songs.

Upon release, it peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200. In 1997, the album received a RIAA gold certification.[10] In 2000, it was voted number 410 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[11]

Background[]

The death of former Crazy Horse guitarist and bandmate Danny Whitten from an alcohol/diazepam overdose in 1972 affected Neil Young greatly and contributed to a hiatus of Crazy Horse.

Late in 1973, Young went on tour with the Crazy Horse rhythm section of bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina; the multi-instrumentalist Nils Lofgren, who had played on Young's After the Gold Rush (1970) before joining the Whitten-led iteration of Crazy Horse from 1970 to 1971; and the Stray Gators holdover Ben Keith. This group, initially billed as Crazy Horse at its first engagements, became known as the Santa Monica Flyers. They recorded most of the tracks on Tonight's the Night (1975).

After the 1974 stadium tour with Crosby, Stills & Nash and another abandoned attempt at a second CSNY studio album, Young formed a new version of Crazy Horse in 1975 with rhythm guitarist Frank Sampedro alongside of Talbot and Molina. Aside from a brief period in the late 1980s, this line-up would remain stable until 2018, when Sampedro retired and was replaced by Lofgren.[12]

Content[]

Zuma was the first album released after the so-called Ditch Trilogy, of the albums Time Fades Away, On the Beach, and Tonight's the Night.

The melody and lyrics of "Don't Cry No Tears" are partially derived from "I Wonder", a song Young wrote in high school which appeared in his Archives (2009). During a show in 1996, Young claimed that he'd also written "Cortez the Killer" in high school while suffering from "Montezuma's Revenge".[13] The song ends with a fade out because a power surge caused the original cut to stop abruptly, and an additional final verse was not recorded. Young's reaction to hearing of this was that he "never liked that verse anyway" and it has never been performed live.[14]

In "Danger Bird" Young interpolates sections of an unreleased song called "L.A. Girls and Ocean Boys" that had related to Young's breakup with Carrie Snodgress, specifically the line "'Cause you've been with another man / there you are and here I am."[15]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Neil Young.

Side one
  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
Side two
  1. "Stupid Girl" – 3:13
  2. "Drive Back" – 3:32
  3. "Cortez the Killer" – 7:29
  4. "Through My Sails" – 2:41

Personnel[]


Crazy Horse

  • Frank Sampedro – rhythm guitar (all tracks except "Pardon My Heart" and "Through My Sails")
  • Billy Talbot – bass (all tracks except "Pardon My Heart" and "Through My Sails"), backing vocals (all tracks except "Through My Sails")
  • Ralph Molina – drums (all tracks except "Pardon My Heart" and "Through My Sails"), backing vocals (all tracks except "Through My Sails")


Additional musicians

Charts[]

Chart performance for Zuma
Chart (1975) Peak

position

Australia (Kent Music Report)[16] 44
US Billboard Top LPs & Tape[17] 25
UK Album Charts[18] 44
Canadian RPM 100 Albums[19] 69
Finnish Album Charts[20] 27
French Album Charts[21] 13
Japanese Album Charts[22] 84
Spain Album Charts[23] 13
New Zealand Album Charts[24] 35
Dutch MegaCharts Albums[24] 4
US Cash Box Top 100 Albums[25] 25
US Record World Album Chart[26] 30

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[27] Silver 60,000^
United States (RIAA)[28] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Ruhlman, William. Neil Young: Zuma > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 November 2005.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: Y". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ "Neil Young / Crazy Horse: Time Fades Away/Zuma Album Review - Pitchfork". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  5. ^ Martin C. Strong (1998). The Great Rock Discography (1st ed.). Canongate Books. ISBN 978-0-86241-827-4.
  6. ^ Gary Graff, ed. (1996). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). London: Visible Ink Press. ISBN 978-0-7876-1037-1.
  7. ^ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Neil Young". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). London: Fireside Books. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  8. ^ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). "Neil Young". Spin Alternative Record Guide (1st ed.). New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  9. ^ Tom Hull. "Grade List: Neil Young". Tom Hull - on the web. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
  10. ^ "Gold & Platinum - RIAA". Riaa.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  11. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 153. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
  12. ^ https://ultimateclassicrock.com/nils-lofgren-frank-poncho-sampedro-crazy-horse-2018/
  13. ^ Stone, Rolling (23 February 2011). "RS Fact-Checks Famous Rock Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  14. ^ "Cortez the Killer by Neil Young Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  15. ^ Jimmy McDonough. Shakey: Neil Young's Biography. New York: Random House, 2002, pp. 488-506. ISBN 0-679-42772-4
  16. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 295. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  17. ^ "Stephen Stills". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  18. ^ "STEPHEN STILLS | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  19. ^ Canada, Library and Archives (2013-04-16). "The RPM story". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  20. ^ Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1961.
  21. ^ "InfoDisc : Les Albums (Interprètes, Classements, Ventes, Certifications, Les Tops, Les N° 1...)". www.infodisc.fr. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  22. ^ "クロスビー,スティルス,ナッシュ&ヤングの売上ランキング". ORICON NEWS. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  23. ^ Salaverri, Fernando (2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002. Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  24. ^ Jump up to: a b Hung, Steffen. "The Stills-Young Band - Long May You Run". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  25. ^ "CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Music and coin machine magazine 1942 to 1996". worldradiohistory.com. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  26. ^ "RECORD WORLD MAGAZINE: 1942 to 1982". worldradiohistory.com. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  27. ^ "British album certifications – Neil Young – Zuma". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 17 November 2019.Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Zuma in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  28. ^ "American album certifications – Neil Young – Zuma". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 17 November 2019.

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