By Anne Billson 10. The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) Looking as though she has strayed from another genre, Hannah plays Mickey Rourke’s girlfriend, a leggy aerobics instructor who keeps getting undressed. At least she’s more fun than Rourke and…

Amazon Amazon is set up so the listener will hear the version their device allows. So if they are listening on an Atmos enabled device such as the Echo Studio, they will be served up the Atmos version, NOT OUR HI RES…

Bernard Shakey This comes from ‘Psychedelic Pill,’ Crazy Horse’s second last studio album to date. I wrote this song after returning to Canada for my Dad’s funeral with my Canadian family. Canada gave me a great start in life and…

Bernard Shakey This song was recorded by Crazy Horse, live in Liverpool England 7-13-14, with more added parts about 6 weeks later. I know I have been on this subject for decades and I hope the world wakes up before…

Bernard Shakey When Crazy Horse got together for ‘Americana’, I just wanted to play. . . . rekindle the spirit of the horse. I had fun making the album and assorted videos from old stock film footage. . . .…

Bernard Shakey When I first heard ‘Circle Game’ by Joni Mitchell, she told me ‘Sugar Mountain’ had inspired it. Both songs were less than a year old at the time. Chick Roberts, of the DIRTY SHAMES, a Canadian group I…

Bernard Shakey ‘Carl the affection hound’ stars in this slick Shakey Pictures production, shot in my Jeep Grand Wagoneer- “La Bamba”. The headliner is going south and we are in the breeze. The song is from ‘Fork in the Road’,…

Bernard Shakey and Shakey Pictures’ first presentation Working with Audio - LA JOHNSON, and cinematography - DAVID MEYERS, we made our first film with director - Bernard Shakey in the early 70s. CSNY, The Stray Gators, Carrie Snodgress, (Zeke Young’s…

Directed by Bernard Shakey This is CRAZY HORSE on the tour that followed Ragged Glory, featuring the audience in a lot of songs. My manager Elliot Roberts did not like that idea. He thought people wanted to see me. With…

Directed by Bernard Shakey I recently updated this song for the 2020 election. I thought George Bush was bad! I didn’t know what was coming. We made it through that and we can still be better than ever! ny

Directed by L.A. Johnson ‘Computer Age’ originated from ‘Trans’ in 1982. Here we are in ‘A Rusted out Garage’ doing the song with Crazy Horse. ny

Bernard Shakey This is a great CRAZY HORSE take of Tonight’s the Night from the film ‘WELD’. It speaks for itself. The complete ‘WELD’ film will be coming soon to the The Hearse Theater. Smell the Horse. ny

Directed by L.A. Johnson Here we are in the auditorium of a little school in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii. Duck Dunn, Jimmy Keltner, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, Astrid Young, Pegi Young. practicing for the ‘Friends and Relatives’…

Around the Fire DARYL HANNAH Promise of the Real, Elliot Roberts, Willie Nelson and I filmed this before we headed to Ol’Chella - where we had a blast! That’s in the movie too! Seeds are the gold of the future.…

The Big Show DARYL HANNAH Promise of the Real, Elliot Roberts, Willie Nelson and I filmed this before we headed to Ol’Chella - where we had a blast! That’s in the movie too! Seeds are the gold of the future.…

I was fortunate enough to play with Steve Cropper, doing a tour with Duck Dunn and Booker T Jones. Steve was a classic, one of a kind player bringing his magic every time he played. My own time with Steve…

Gary Burden, always the most handsome man in the room, with sparkling blue eyes, has passed away at 84 years. My friend for life, Gary was my art director, creating album covers with me for almost 50 years, beginning with…

Stan Szelest played with us on Homegrown. An amazing keyboard player, Stan was introduced to me by Tim Drummond, who had met him with Lonnie Mack, the legendary guitarist. I will never forget playing with Stan! His great touch can…

Someday I would like to write a book, 'The Life and Times of David Briggs'. I could research everyone he touched and really get to the bottom of some things about my mercurial, mysterious brother. He was born Manning Philander…

Bernard Alfred (Jack) Nitzsche, musician, born April 22 1937; died August 25 2000 Producer and arranger who worked with Phil Spector, recorded with the Stones and Neil Young, and moved on to movie soundtracks By Richard Williams The name of…

Kenny played with me on Harvest, Harvest Moon, Tuscaloosa, plus songs ‘The Great Divide’ and ‘Buffalo Springfield Again’ from the album Silver & Gold. He can be seen playing drums in the Julien Temple directed video of ‘Harvest Moon’. He…

Bruce Palmer, bass player, born September 9 1946; died October 1 2004 Although Stephen Stills and Neil Young became the best-known artists to emerge from the California band Buffalo Springfield, the group's bass player Bruce Palmer was a focal point…

Dewey Martin (Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff), drummer, born 30 September 1940; died 31 January 2009 Canadian drummer and co-founding member of Buffalo Springfield The band that planted the seeds of the Americana genre, Buffalo Springfield, included only two US natives,…

L.A. Johnson, a man who invented a new language with his movies about music and changed the way we saw rock & roll, died suddenly Thursday in Northern California. Over the course of over 40 years and countless collaborations with…

Grant Boatright and Neil with photo of Ben Keith. photo: Zeke Young Ben has been around. He used to play with Hawkshaw Hawkins. Patsy Cline had Ben Keith on her big hit ‘Crazy’. Ben played on numerous recordings by other…

I loved Rick the bass player. He was one of the funniest guys I ever knew up there with Elliot and Tim Drummond. A great bass player, silky smooth and slippery, he gave all he had every night and every…

I met Tim Drummond, the great bass player, when i started recording Harvest in Nashville back on February 6 of 1971. The first song we played was ‘Bad Fog of Lonliness’. Through the years, Tim played bass on many of…

The greatest manager of all time. Elliot speaking at our wedding party last year My friend for over 50 years, Elliot Roberts, has passed away. We are all heartbroken, but want to share what a great human being Elliot has…

Elliot and I first met in Nashville - January 1971, while I was doing the Johnny Cash TV show. At that time, seeing how many new unrecorded songs I had, Elliot immediately got a studio and a group of musicians…

One of our old friends, a record maker for the ages, is no longer with us. His masterful music lives on. The great Al Schmitt has passed away. Al was a good friend to Niko Bolas and I for many…

My old friend Mo Ostin has passed away. I am so sad that he is gone from this earth, but so happy for our life-long friendship. Mo was a hero. Supporting artists and their work all the way through his…

The artist Mazzeo, my old friend of 52 years, passed away Tuesday morning August 2nd. He was my life friend. A great artist, Mazzeo defined what it is to be dedicated to your work. We had so many wonderful times…

David is gone, but his music lives on. The soul of CSNY, David’s voice and energy were at the heart of our band. His great songs stood for what we believed in and it was always fun and exciting when…

The last time I saw Danny Whitten, it was late 1972 and he had come to play in the Stray Gators with Jack Nitzsche, Kenny Buttrey, Tim Drummond, Ben Keith, and me at the ranch. We were rehearsing for the…

photo: Antoine Sanfuentes Niko and I first met during the ‘Landing on Water’ sessions in the mid eighties when he was engineering and Danny Kortchmar was producing. We have been working regularly together since those days. In 1990 we did…

Crazy Horse drummer, Ralph Molina (Ralphie) is a unique and great musician. I have never heard anyone play like him. He plays by feel. Numbers? No. He rises, he falls, he echoes, he stalls. Holding onto the beat like it…

I first met Stephen in Fort William Ontario in 1965, Steve was playing with ‘The Company’, a folk rock group from the village in NYC. That group was an offshoot of the Au Go Go singers, a group of nine…

Daniel Lanois, a great Canadian artist and the producer of ‘Le Noise’, is an unlimited creative powerhouse. His wild sonic nature is beautifully represented in Le Noise, an album I kind of named after him. He has made many great…

The original lead singer in Buffalo Springfield, Richie is now a pastor in Colorado and he continues his music to this day. Richie is a wonderful singer and it was my great pleasure to be in the band with him,…

We first met Nils when Crazy Horse played the Cellar Door in Washington DC. Nils was about 17 then when he came to the club to hear us. He had a lot of energy and was super-interested in music and…

Niko and I first met during the ‘Landing on Water’ sessions in the mid eighties when he was engineering and Danny Kortchmar was producing. We have been working regularly together since those days. In 1990 we did ‘Freedom’ with ‘Rockin’…

Poncho’s guitar held our songs together for 40 years in Crazy Horse. Co-writer of Rockin in the Free World, it was Poncho who came up with the expression. We were on the bus having left Seattle, talking about something that…

Larry is my guitar and amp technician and has been for decades. No longer going with me on tour, he is now a working musician and fine instrument repair man in Northern California. I take my old guitars to Larry…

Tim worked with me for more than a quarter century as Stage Manager, Production Manager and Tour Manager. My earliest memory of this great road-man is Tonight’s the Night - England in November 1973. Tim, a good friend of Nils…

Tim Mulligan is a musical / technical audio genius who has been recording - mixing my shows and records for almost 50 years. His recordings of my shows are so well done that seldom do we ever have to adjust…

Tim Mulligan is a musical / technical audio genius who has been recording - mixing my shows and records for almost 50 years. His recordings of my shows are so well done that seldom do we ever have to adjust…

Billy ‘Boom Boom’ Talbot is Crazy Horse’s bass player and singer and one of the greatest rockers of all time. Billy always had the feeling, laying it down down simple and basic, always with the original boom. Mostly Billy was…