3.
Neil Young, Harvest
I think we had the record when we were in college and the cover was so
cool, that off-white paper. As a kid I had a bit of a thing for
classic rock. The Beatles, The Doors – my dad had their self-titled
album and I listened to that all the time, I should have written that
one down too. Neil Young grew up in Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, which is
basically north of us, just over the border in Canada. So between him
and Bob Dylan, we live in the trench, the Arctic trench. There’s
something about it that’s hard to explain. His language and his tone
is that of middle America. If you grow up in the middle of the country
in the north, you can’t help it – at the end of the day, no matter
what weird music you think you’re listening to, that sound is like
this thing that you can’t get out of your blood.
