The album examines Earths precarious state with pathos, hope, sadness and frustration.
How do you explain your enduring chemistry and compatibility with Crazy Horse?
Its really a natural thing.
After 50 years of making records together, we still have that groove, whatever that is.
How did this album evolve?
The record was a gift.
It came from nowhere.
Daryl and I were in Colorado, and I was going for a walk.
I was whistling some kind of march song.
Then I realized,This is a new melody.
The next day I started whistling another melody.
I recorded it into my phone.
That happened over and over for days and days.
I wrote all the words to the whole record in two days.
I never stopped writing and never corrected a word.
Its sonically fascinating: full of incidental sounds and unexpected instruments and its uncharacteristically not guitar driven.
I only did three songs on guitar.
I played chords on a couple of songs as a cloudburst effect.
On others, I played pump organ or piano, instruments I dont ordinarily play.
When Nils [Lofgren of Crazy Horse] played guitar, we used the incidental sounds between his playing.
Sometimes it sounds like you hear people singing or talking, but its not there.
We went with it.
The song Love Earth is a plea to take care of the planet.
So many people believe its too late.
Its never too late to love.
If you love something, you take care of it.
If everyone realized thats what we need to do, it would be so unifying.
