Edit 2 for headphones, December 2021. The source of this edit is the one on cd 4 of the 2009 release of "Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972)" - an eight hdcd box set of remastered songs. Cd 4 is entitled "Topanga 2 (1969-1970)"…
Edit 2 for headphones, December 2021. The source of this edit is the one on cd 4 of the 2009 release of "Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972)" - an eight hdcd box set of remastered songs. Cd 4 is entitled "Topanga 2 (1969-1970)". (Topanga, California, is the place where Neil Young lived from autumn 1969 to 1970.) ("Oh Lonesome Me" is mono on the 1970 Neil Young album "After The Gold Rush", also mono on the 2009 remaster and on the 2014 Pono remaster of "After The Goldrush".) Stephen Stills sings backing vocals on the bridge and at the end of verse three.
"Oh Lonesome Me" is a song written and recorded in December 1957 by Don Gibson ("The Jordanairs" were the backing vocals). In 1958 the song topped the country chart for eight non-consecutive weeks in addition to reaching no. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"After The Goldrush" album personnel was:
Neil Young: guitar, piano, harmonica, vibes, lead vocals.
Danny Whitten: guitar, vocals (died in 1972, drugs & alcohol overdose).
Nils Lofgren: guitar, piano, vocals.
Jack Nitzsche: piano.
Billy Talbot: bass.
Greg Reeves: bass.
Ralph Molina: drums, vocals.
Stephen Stills: vocals.
Bill Peterson: flugelhorn.
OH LONESOME ME
(Don Gibson)
everybody's going out and having fun
I'm a fool for staying home and having none
I can't get over how she set me free
oh lonesome me
there must be some way that I can lose these lonesome blues
forget about my past and find someone new
I've thought of everything from a to z
oh lonesome me
I'll bet she's not like me
she's out and fancy free
flirting with the boys with all her charms
but I still love her so
and brother don't you know
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms
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