Certain Songs #1251: Neil Young – “Borrowed Tune”
Posted by Jim Connelly in Certain Songs on Jun 27, 2018
Album: Tonight’s The Night
Year: 1975
Recorded at the Broken Arrow Ranch on December 5, 1973
One of the most storied albums in Neil Young’s entire career, Tonight’s the Night famously sported an almost two-year gap between the time the bulk of it was recorded in late August and early September and the time it was released on June 20, 1975.
Fueled by equal parts of guilt, grief and tequila, the songs on Tonight’s The Night were frank and fucked-up on multiple levels as Neil — with the help of Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot, Ben Keith & Nils Lofgren — confronted the overdose deaths of roadie Bruce Berry and guitarist Danny Whitten.