Everybody's Rockin'

Infobox Album |
Name = Everybody's Rockin'
Type = Album
Artist = Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks


Released = 1983
Recorded =
Genre = Rock, Rockabilly
Length = 24:55
Label = Geffen
Producer = Neil Young & Elliot Mazer
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:79dkyl1jxpmb link]
*Robert Christgau (C+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=neil+young link]
Chronology = Neil Young
Last album = "Trans"
(1982)
This album = "Everybody's Rockin"'
(1983)
Next album = "Old Ways"
(1985)

"Everybody's Rockin is a 1983 album by Neil Young. The album was recorded with the Shocking Pinks (a band made up just for the occasion), and features a selection of rockabilly songs (both covers and original material). Running less than a half of an hour, the music is unlike anything else in Young's career. However, "Everybody's Rockin is typical of his 1980s period in that it bears little, or no resemblance to the album released before it ("Trans" (1982), a synth-heavy, electro-rock album), nor the one released after it ("Old Ways" (1985), which is pure country.)

"Everybody's Rockin"' is Neil Young's shortest album, clocking in at under 25 minutes. In a 1995 interview with "MOJO", Young said that the album was supposed to have included the songs "Get Gone" and "Don't Take Your Love Away From Me" (which later appeared on "Lucky Thirteen"), but that Geffen, his record company, cancelled the recording sessions. [http://www.thrasherswheat.org/tfa/mojointerview1295pt2.htm]

The following year, Geffen sued Young for making "uncharacteristic, uncommercial records", because of this record and its predecessor. In the Mojo interview Young says "R.E.M. were going to go with Geffen, then they heard I was being sued and everything, they just dropped all contact with Geffen and signed with Warner Bros. instead. Geffen actually lost R.E.M. simply for suing me over "Everybody's Rockin"'!" Ironically, Geffen was at the time distributed by WBR.

Young wrote the song "Wonderin'" long before the sessions for "Everybody's Rockin"'. It dates from at least the "After the Gold Rush" era, and was part of his setlist at solo acoustic shows in 1970. An electric performance, featuring Crazy Horse appears on "Live at the Fillmore East".

Everybody's Rockin' was ranked #49 in Q Magazine's 50 Worst Albums Ever. [ [http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#50%20Worst%20Albums Q lists - page3 ] ]

Track listing

ide one

#"Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes" (Bobby Freeman) – 3:02
#"Rainin' in My Heart" (Slim Harpo, Jerry West) – 2:11
#"Payola Blues" (Ben Keith, Neil Young) – 3:09
#"Wonderin'" (Young)– 2:59
#"Kinda Fonda Wanda" (Tim Drummond, Young) – 1:51

ide two

#"Jellyroll Man" (Young) – 2:00
#"Bright Lights, Big City" (Jimmy Reed)– 2:18
#"Cry, Cry, Cry" (Young) – 2:39
#"Mystery Train" (Junior Parker, Sam Phillips) – 2:47
#"Everybody's Rockin'" (Young) – 1:57

Personnel

*Neil Young: Vocals, piano, guitar, harmonica
*Shocking Pinks
*:Ben Keith: Alto sax, lead guitar
*:Tim Drummond: Upright bass
*:Karl Himmel: Snare
*:Larry Byrom: Piano, backing vocals
*:Rick Palombi: Backing vocals
*:Anthony Crawford: Backing vocals

References

External links

* [http://hyperrust.org/cgi-bin/ma.pl?28 Lyrics] at [http://hyperrust.org/ HyperRust.org]