Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse is the 1971 debut album by Crazy Horse, released by Reprise Records. It peaked at number 84 on the Billboard album chart. Members of this band had already released an album in 1968 as The Rockets, and had appeared on record twice with Neil Young as Crazy Horse. The core trio from the Rockets, Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina, provided instrumental backing for Young's 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and performed on some songs from Young's 1970 album After the Gold Rush. During sessions for the latter, they met teenage guitar prodigy Nils Lofgren, and producer/keyboardist Jack Nitzsche, who had worked with Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew and The Rolling Stones. They meshed, and Crazy Horse expanded into...