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Almost Cut My Hair
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"Almost Cut My Hair"
Song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
from the album Déjà Vu
Released
1970
Recorded
January 9, 1970 (1970-01-09)
Studio
Wally Heider Studio C
Label
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
David Crosby
"Almost Cut My Hair" is a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, originally released on the band's 1970 album Déjà Vu.[1] It was recorded at Wally Heider Studios on January 9, 1970.[2]
The song describes a real-life dilemma faced by many hippies: whether to cut one's hair to a more practical length, or leave it long as a symbol of rebellion.[3] It was written by David Crosby, and features solo vocals by Crosby, with the rest of the band joining in on instruments rather than (as in many of their other songs) on vocal harmony. Unlike most of the tracks on Déja Vu, the quartet and their studio musicians, Dallas Taylor (drums) and Greg Reeves (bass), all recorded it at the same place and time.[1] It was one of only two songs from the album that Neil Young joined in on despite not writing.[4]
Although the notion of long hair as a "freak flag" appeared earlier, notably in a 1967 Jimi Hendrix song "If 6 Was 9", Crosby's song has been credited with popularizing the idea of long hair as a deliberate and visible symbol of the wearer's affiliation with the counterculture, and opposition to establishment values. James Perone writes that, "more than any other song of the entire era", it "captures the extent to which the divisiveness in American society ... had boiled over into violence and terror".[1]
It became one of Crosby's "signature songs",[5] and "probably his most important political song".[6] Crosby himself stated "It was the most juvenile set of lyrics I've ever written ... but it has a certain emotional impact, there's no question about that."[5]
Personnel[edit]
David Crosby – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Stephen Stills – guitars
Graham Nash – organ
Neil Young – guitars
Additional musicians
Dallas Taylor – drums, percussion
Greg Reeves – bass
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Perone, James E. (2012), The Album: A Guide to Pop Music's Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations, Volume 1, The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection, ABC-CLIO, p. 21, ISBN 9780313379062 .
Jump up ^ Planer, Lindsay. "Almost Cut My Hair - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
Jump up ^ Bingham, Clara (2016), Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul, Random House Publishing Group, p. 108, ISBN 9780679644743 .
Jump up ^ Downing, David (1994), A Dreamer of Pictures: Neil Young, the Man and His Music, Da Capo Press, p. 64, ISBN 9780306806117 .
^ Jump up to: a b Hoye, Jacob (2003), 100 Greatest Albums, Simon and Schuster, p. 138, ISBN 9780743448765 .
Jump up ^ v.d. Luft, Eric (2009), Die at the Right Time!: A Subjective Cultural History of the American Sixties, Gegensatz Press, p. 424, ISBN 9781933237398 .
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