Watch Neil Young Perform With Crazy Horse on This Day in 1994
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In August of 1994, Neil Young released his 20th studio album, Sleeps with Angels, the follow-up to Harvest Moon and his seventh record with go-to collaborators Crazy Horse. Though most of the LP was recorded early in that year, Young coined the title track in honor of Kurt Cobain, who quoted Young’s lyrics in his suicide note in April 1994. Sleeps with Angels, which also features updated versions of songs from 1975’s Tonight’s the Night, is darker, moodier and more somber than much of Young’s music from that era. Young was even influenced by the punk music of the day, by way of the fuzzy screamer “Piece of Crap” on the record.