BYRDS
Cowgirl In The Sand

Byrds (1973)

The decision to cover a pair of Neil Young’s songs on the Byrds reunion album was made by Gene Clark who had long admired the Canadian artist. Clark’s harmonica playing lent the song a distinctive country flavor. On that occasion David Crosby said that Neil Young was the great songwriter of the Seventies, just Bob Dylan had been for the Sixties, and therefore it was entirely appropriate that the Byrds should be covering Young rather than Dylan.

You can also listen to See The Sky About To Rain (not yet recorded by Neil Young at that time)