Drummer reacts to "Southern Man" (Live) by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

[@seanjockel43]

When Steve and Neil go toe to toe all is right In the world.

[@bryanhale5254]

Lynyrd Skynyrd had a song ...Sweet Home Alabama ....I heard ol' Neil sang about Her I heard ol' Niell put her down I hope Niel Ypung will remember ..Southern Man don't need him around anyhow ..... funny though Van Zant wore a T shirt with Neil Young printed on the shirt on the street survivors album ...I think he was a fan of him even if he critisized him ....he was buried with that Neil Young shirt on the picture was from thr Tonight's the Night album

[@dbradx]

@@bryanhale5254 Van Zant and all the boys in Skynyrd were big Neil fans - hell, Neil even offered them 'Powderfinger' when he wrote it, but they thought it was a better song for Neil. 'Sweet Home' was absolutely a response to '"Southern Man' and 'Alabama' - they simply felt there was another side to the story to be told, but there was love between them for sure.

[@liblit]

The killer in this is listening to how Stills and Young play off each other. This is way more than just Neil. You'll listen to it again and it'll come through. Personnel for this track: Barbata drums, Samuels bass, Nash on organ, Crosby rhythm guitar, just off center; Stills lead left ear, Young lead right ear.

[@kdbadk]

This album is essential. Deja Vu was not the album of a band. THIS was a band.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Exactly too many top 40 wimps on top 40 garbage radio never heard 4 way street and only request the tired overplayed crap

[@BeeGee56]

Neil and Stephen’s guitar battles were legendary dating back to their Buffalo Springfield days

[@simonrangeley]

First heard this about 50 years ago . Still think it is one of the best pieces of music ever.

[@claudeproost1286]

Guitar interplay from heaven!

[@L33Reacts]

Yeah that was pure divine guitar energy here. Neil and stills are just nuts. And crosby of course 😀

[@heartoftherose]

"Have you heard me and Stephen play together?" said Neil to Graham when Graham was uncertain about Neil joining the lineup. Graham decided to include Neil.

[@tigerpinky]

I love these voices/musicians together!

[@jeffmartin1026]

One sunny afternoon back in college (1970), enjoying a tab of acid and listening to this LP, I looked over at the turntable and there they were, small versions of everyone in the band playing their hearts out just for me. What a memory.

[@lorieprieto-wells9734]

Lmao. I miss the 70s

[@seanjockel43]

Crosby was an excellent rhythm guitar player. He holds it all together while Steve and Neil do their thing

[@WildwoodSon]

Always good to hear Stills and Young playing against each other. Such different styles and tone yet very complimentary.

[@garyscharf9232]

It's nice to have someone in the reaction game that's not afraid to take on these EPIC and long live songs. Keep it up Lee!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Yup though usually it's the Sad Wimpy Requesters only listening to the acoustic garbage from top 40 garbage radio overplayed short trash that's "Safe" ....normally they go from Channel to Channel only requesting Wimpy Old Man like it was only song he did or Harvest Moon which was a very forgettable album

[@Fuphyter]

I was in a band with bassist Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels. He played with CSNY on this album and in Stephen Stills band "Manassas". One of the kindest people I've ever met. Of course David Crosby...polar opposite. We kept in touch through the years. He called me from a gig once. He told me he was playing with Alvin Lee, Mick Taylor and someone I can't recall. He wished I was there. SO did I!! Ever hear Return To Forever?

[@stevedotwood]

Never heard this version. Love the dueling guitars

[@NoviJimB]

Wow, I haven't heard this in years. I still remember so many of those lead parts from WAY back in the day. First heard this not too long after it came out, when I was 11. :) Listened to it a lot back then, then a bit more in my late teens and into my 20's. I appreciate it even more these days.

[@astonsfan]

Art........................rock on dude!!!!

[@mitzifrancis9843]

So glad you listened to this live performance.

[@paulrebori2395]

I remember back in the 70's. listening to 4 Way Street double album. Pulling out the bong with a 6 shot one hitter. I see it happining all over

[@gs8191]

Stills and Young were jamming together since their Buffalo Springfield days. Just don't give all the love to Neil, Stills is a great lead guitarist and is very adept at playing off of Neil and has played with greats like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Mike Bloomfield. A song of Neil's to try is Country Girl, a three song in one trilogy, from the Deja Vu album. Great lead vocal by Neil, the usual awe-inspiring harmonies and one of Stills' best piano solos. I wore these albums out in the day.

[@stevedotwood]

absolutely "Country Girl" - you don't hear it often on reactors channels (never actually) - I can't understand why

[@gs8191]

@@stevedotwood I agree - a forgotten gem to be sure. Love the part when it is just Stills and Young softly on vocals, then Crosby and Nash come in beautifully and powerfully with the harmonies. And how the organ and vocals build to a crescendo into the final Country Girl part. I'm going to listen to it now, been a while.

[@barbaramiller2279]

I get great enjoyment out of watching you enjoy these guys like you do. They are the soundtrack of my teen and college years. I enjoy them as much today as I did back then. Kansas as well. This music also has really helped me through some dark times. Better than medicine. I have a teen at home here now, and the other four above her that have embraced my music with gusto. Watching their faces the first time they are hearing something that meant everything to me in the past and that I can still remember how it felt the first time.... more precious than gold. I see that in you. I've called my 16 year old into the room when I know a good spot is coming up and say "just watch his face...." That's as good as the music. Smile my dear. You doing awesome. Take your medicine daily. 💜

[@user-fc8lz1cg4x]

❤😊

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

And this live!!! Just shows how talented they were

[@bryanschuler7158]

You’re going to love “ four-way Street” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Unimaginable guitar energy 😍

[@joannerichards1750]

Still's great solo single from this period is "Love the One You're With" (November 1970), with background vocals by Crosby, Nash, Rita Coolidge, Priscilla Jones, and John Sebastian. This song rocks. It is a staple on classic rock radio.

[@jonathanwyman9402]

L33 your friends here are steering you right. Stills and Young loved playing together (they still do) and fought like brothers. They broke up two huge bands.

[@UFOS4]

Not always a fan of live albums, but this one, holy cow! Exceptional!! Dang!

[@Jonni1027]

I saw them on this tour in 1970 in Oakland CA. It was extremely wonderful, exhilarating and exciting as I recall. I was a girl just 12 years old, introduced to each of them all from my late oldest sister’s love of everything music. I’ve seen Neil Young perform about 30 times over the years and am finally taking my only child, my daughter 29 years old, to see Neil this month in San Diego. After that she says she’ll then scratch that off of her Bucket List. We’re super excited!❤

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Excellent song written by Neil Young ❤❤❤ He speaks the truth.

[@johnthegreek5836]

One of the best live albums from the 70’s, you should cover every song from this album; Neil is just speaking the truth on how he sees Racism and the KKK in the South and Lynyrd Skynard sang a song blasting Neil Young but eventually they both moved on! What’s great about this album is all 4 of them brought the songs they each written and performed them on this masterpiece

[@KevinRCarr]

Dude. You seriously need to just react to each and every song on this album. This is primo CSNY, each individually and all together. Carry On from this album will blow you away.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Yes

[@YESFan1971]

Love it...good reaction.

[@hongfang2348]

I have this album in my vinyl collection. It's a fantastic start to finish

[@Relayer6a]

I got 4 way street back in 73-74??? That album made them my favorite band for a long time.

[@mattleppard1964]

Just saw this. What a searing song. What raw and spitting lyrics and imagery ❤❤ In turn, we got Lynrd Synrd’s Sweet Home Alabama as a riposte, mentioning Neil by name. That’s an excellent song to me too. Right, eye drop time🙃

[@roberthubal6278]

Thanks. Hadn't heard that version before.

[@rockinronist]

Sometime in the mid '70s Neil stopped performing "Southern Man". He was performing it live during a US concert and a fight broke out in the audience. Neil stopped the show and walked off. With the violent content of the song's lyrics and the fight, Neil decided not to do the song live anymore. I do have a cassette tape copy of the incident. It's an audience recording. I don't recall off hand exactly when and where it happened.

[@timothymyers3368]

I saw Neil at carnige hall about 15 years ago and he played Southern Man. He said it was the first time he had played it live in 26 years

[@smithpm81]

brilliant song one of my faves of his

[@rk41gator]

CSN&Y were fearless and jumped into controversial subjects. This subject was too strong for Alabama and set off a bit of a feud amongst friends. Neil was not shy and took no prisoners.

[@thescrewfly]

The duo guitaring wanders around quite a bit but it gets suitably intense in the end. Worthwhile.

[@spooley]

The Stills-Young Band album is permanently glued to my turntable. Every song is great, not a bad note in the entirety. Fontainebleau is like an early grunge song.

[@ronn.6876]

4 way Street is my favorite album from CSNY. The whole album is just pure CSNY.

[@kristinemckee9279]

The music with a message

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Jamming at its finest !!!!!

[@alphajava761]

One of the best live albums ever recorded. This song is about the murder of Lillie Belle Allen in 1969 during the race riots, Lillie Belle's father was a preacher and he is the Southern man in this song. Young takes poetic license by calling her Lily Belle in the song.

[@edwardhubschman3610]

Lee, your "edge" comment has always been the point of the ending "Y". It was always pretty much agreed by me and most of those I knew. As great as they were without him, Neil provided something they lacked, though we didn't see it as lacking, without him.

[@edzontar660]

Never thought so before, but thanks to L33, I now think the guitar workouts of Carry On & Southern Man in 4 Way Street out does the Outlaws, Freebird, Guns 'n Roses - Paradise City & many others ... Add Cream - Spoonful - Wheels of Fire & Jeff Plane - Fat Angel - Bless LP to my "new past" = Yep, I miss & missed the rockin' psychedelic sixties!

[@MrBadgas]

Fortunate to still have vinyl on this one. ❤

[@user-gu1zb6cw6t]

The answer to most questions in this respect is Neil Young. Still true in 2024.

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

The bass makes this track.

[@phoebeandtilly]

The best of times…musically!!!

[@neiltheblaze]

Stills/Young guitar duels were pretty legendary during their time in Buffalo Springfield too - but there aren't any live tapes that I know of.

[@jeffjohnson9911]

Stills & Young doin' their old Buffalo Springfield guitar cross talk.

[@rk41gator]

And this was just a few years after the civil rights movement and all the horrible results of the reaction against allowing blacks to be people and actually vote. Nerves were still raw. And like today, there were plenty of those who were arrogantly ignorant and offended at being called hypocrites by Neil, a Yankee, of all people. What great music. Raw, emotional, and in your face.....just as it needed to be. Definitely CSN&Y is one of my top groups (along with Genesis and Pink Floyd). How can they be so rockin' groovy?

[@stevebinning977]

Isn't Neil Young Canadian?

[@rk41gator]

@@stevebinning977 Yes. But are not Canadians Yankees?

[@stevebinning977]

@@rk41gator Are they? Would a Canadian person confirm this?

[@rk41gator]

@@stevebinning977 Actually that is irrelevant. It would be Southern Man who would call them (or him) a Yankee. Better to ask Alabama (the state and/or the band).

[@kathybwell]

Appreciate how CSN&Y are willing to use their platform and write songs with a political message. 🙌

[@off-stagemic3337]

Greendale is a Neil Young & Crazy Horse album you definitely need to listen to. It's his 25th studio album released in 2003. It's a 10 song musical novel about a tragic fraction of life for a small town family. In my opinion a very highly underrated album. To me it feels like a Stephen King novel and I love Stephen king. I also get the same vibes from his song Powderfinger

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Top man Joel !!!!

[@L33Reacts]

He knows what's up! 😎

[@sandraevans3932]

Very cool show

[@barbaramiller2279]

If you are familiar with Sweet Home Alabama by Skynard, you'll notice the reference to Neil, "a Southern man don't need him 'round any how..." Neil's solo Alabama is a good one too.

[@mattleppard1964]

I love Sweet Home Alabama too.

[@curtadams7406]

That was a time when you could have political differences and not automatically hate someone with different views. I have read that Ronnie Van Zant and Neil Young actually became friends. Whatever allowed that to happen...we need today. In college, Four Way Street always gave my speakers a workout, especially after 3:00 am.

[@mattleppard1964]

@@curtadams7406 Sadly, that time has long passed. I’m not ashamed of the music I love, as with other things, but society is a tinderbox. I even hesitated to post that I liked it 😢

[@barbaramiller2279]

@@curtadams7406 I can totally remember the first time I heard Southern Man and was like DAMN... then several years later, Sweet Home Alabama, and it made me chuckle and think everyone is entitled to their own point of view, isn't that awesome.. not today. Nothing is just what it is anymore. It has to be us against them and totally black or white, no meeting of the minds. I think eventually our world will right itself again, for awhile, until the next time that it gets shook up like it is now. I just do my thing, keep my head down and live my life.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Stop

[@shemanic1]

Great tune, band & reaction. I was 19 when this was released, still have & play the vinyl.

[@user-ts6xn5mq8q]

I received this album as a birthday present back in the day. No surprise that I played the HECK out of it. I also got to see them live at "The Day on the Green" at the Oakland - Alameda County Coliseum... what a great day!

[@JB-Deadskins]

This song is the reason Neil is cited in Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern Man don't need him around, anyhow

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope stop

[@thescrewfly]

Lynyrd who? Their high school teacher pales into insignificance.

[@Richard2003]

It was fun to hear their reply to Neil.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Also need to do Carry On from This

[@L33Reacts]

I definitely will. Carry on is still my favorite song of theirs

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

@@L33Reacts well here is long with solos from Neil and Stills

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

For your own benefit , search youtube for Down By The River done Live by Crosby Stills Nash and Young from the David Steinberg show ...kinda short but the lead solos by Stills and Young worth it

[@bendbadgersteve]

That opening run was Stephen Stills. You've got Stills in one channel, Young is in the other. Crosby is playing electric rhythm and Graham Nash is on the organ.

[@kweile4339]

Thanks for another CSNY! Have a great day!

[@moonrich3492]

"That Neil?" No, it was Stephen Stills. Stills is a well rounded guitarist mastering many different genres, especially the blues. Recall that Stills did the lead electric guitar work on the first CSN album (Wooden Ships, Long Time Gone).

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

Great live album. You probably know now that you heard the extended live version of Southern Man, which is actually a Neil Young solo song from his amazing studio album "After the Goldrush". In addition to the studio version of "Southern Man", you should listen to the track "Tell Me Why", or any of the other tracks to be honest. 🙂

[@user-fc8lz1cg4x]

Still relevant. Thanks for another great reaction! ❤😊

[@joelliebler5690]

This is one of the most important songs of that era. Lee you need to react to the original to get the full impact.

[@patrickcadge-moore6916]

Makes me want to start building a vinyl collection again, if I could afford it

[@scottpfadenhauer6685]

Listening to reactions after work. Went from 15 lps to 100. Thanks L33,lol

[@MrWishud]

Next has to be "Carry On" from the same album. An even better jam maybe.

[@johnimhof6568]

I still have this album, though it's badly worn.

[@L33Reacts]

I see why! I'd play this every day lol just for this song. And I bet each song on this record is special.

[@michaelescareno7048]

Really enjoyed your reaction to this!! If you check out " Carry On" from this 4 Way Street album, it's also a long jam.

[@jpirard]

Steve on the left, Neil on the right. Channels)

[@henkcristall1510]

yes!

[@donholl]

While on the so-named CSN&Y album, "Carry On" doesn't include Neil: other than his two songs, he only performs on "Almost...", "Woodstock", and "Everybody...".

[@bradjenkins1475]

My greatest groups of all time are simply The Beatles, Crosby still's Nash and young, and Led Zeppelin. Now, before anyone freaks out and has their own list, which is totally different. That's what music is all about and I get it. And in reality, the difference between the greatest and the next step down is miniscule. The true list of the greatest groups from the late 60s and early 70s would amount to a number closer to 25, but these in my opinion are the 3 greatest, and yet all 3 different. No 1 stops 3 groups of all time is wrong. And I have no idea who would be on those lists. But that's what's great about music. The fact that nobody's wrong.

[@Fuphyter]

Love your list. I was 13 in 1970. Music is language everyone understands. I was very into The Stones in highschool. Their earlier albums. Stopped listening after "Some Girls". I love such diverse music and have since I was a teen. The Beatles and Led Zeppelin never released a bad album. Joni Mitchell, Chris Cornell, The Who, Steely Dan, Return To Forever, Johnny Winter, Vivaldi etc. Whatever gives you goosebumps and raises your soul.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

This album with Carry on beats Deja Vu Carry on...and this version is longer...also Long Time Gone is insane with Crosby

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Studio can t compete

[@alpetrocelli4465]

Neil & Stephen trading licks is about as good as it gets. ✌️❤️🎶

[@funincatalonia]

Please review muffin man live by frank zappa

[@jmcc199]

Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote Sweet Home Alabama as a response to this song - they weren't pleased with Neil's depiction

[@donholl]

As live rock albums go, 4WS shows how much more (IMO) artists had freedom to explore their music in a concert setting, back then. Pretty much every cut is performed in a distinctive manner from the studio rendition: longer; acoustic, instead of electric; solo, instead of band. If many YT comments I've seen are indicative, lots of "fans" of acts want their songs performed as almost rote renditions of the studio cuts - yawn.

[@marktizzard47]

Perfection

[@genegarrett3372]

Thanks, haven't listened to any 4 way street in years. My copy stolen. Hope they enjoyed it.

[@unclejohn1053]

First album I bought with money I earnd.

[@jaybo2023]

Please check out "Mr. Soul" by The Ducks...It's Neil with a bunch of guys kicked out of their original groups. Back to your picking up Neil vs to Steven...Neil is a fuzzy...Steven is crisp. Both are wonderful and playing against each other they are out of this world....live video Celebration at Big Sur not a bad song... and lead up to 4 and 20 Steven almost gets in a fight with a fan

[@seanjockel43]

If you liked Johnnys drumming checkout The Live Album by the Jefferson Airplane 30 Seconds over Winterland especially Feel So Good Johnny was briefly part of the JAs final lineup.

[@jeffmartin1026]

He was with The Turtles, Zappa, Airplane and Starship along with a ton of other folk.

[@seanjockel43]

@@jeffmartin1026 which zappa?

[@jeffmartin1026]

@@seanjockel43 Early 70s, he joined with Flo & Eddie and is in 200 Motels.

[@robertthole695]

this is how it should be done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JB-Deadskins]

Now that you've gotten to 4 Way Street, you should definitely do Don't Let it Bring You Down.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope Carry On or LONG Time Gone stop the wimp

[@kathybwell]

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN I'm wimpering for Don't Let It Bring You Down

[@jamessomers8808]

I need to find some footage of this album, I mean, like pay some money or something. For real.❤ if someone asked me what I want for Christmas or my birthday I’m gonna say some live footage video footage please of four-way street.

[@KurtSauers-mi5ev]

I always thought Carry On has better guitar. But it’s been a long time since I listened to it

[@ednuijen3243]

On deja vu, check out helpless, that's a Neil Young as well.

[@stpnwlf9]

This is a scorcher of a live rendition. The only thing that I think was better about the studio version was Nils Lofgren's piano riff . If you hadn't heard the original, you'd never miss it, but I kept thinking the piano should be there.

[@stillstanding8286]

I believe with Young and Stills going toe to toe so often and getting most of the attention that David Crosby is sometimes criminally under appreciated as a rhythm guitar. I’ve seen them live many times (CSN&Y and CSN) and Crosby was always playing his ass off in the background making room for the lead guitar(s)to really explore the grooves. The album “CSNY 1974” (released in 2014) is worth exploring for more live stuff. It covers their summer of ‘74 reunion stadium tour.

[@andrewmcbride8925]

Another great reaction, Drummer. To catch CSNY live, and especially Stills and Young jamming, try them doing Neil's 'Down by the river' here kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5rGo4qQo9GSZ9k and also them doing Crosby's 'Almost cut my hair' in 1974 here kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5fNgZ2Hq72Xmck BTW Young doesn't play on the studio version of 'Carry On' the lead guitar is all Stills.

[@yankeeboyno7]

Check out his catalog as he has reacted to those songs already.

[@irmaoksanen6830]

Did the guitar solos take over the message of the song?

[@mimig3904]

This is an original Neil Young song from After the Goldrush with Crazy Horse. I like that one better.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

And Stepen Stills does for what its worth by himself on piano

[@genegarrett3372]

OHIO was on this album as well

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

We know soooo what

[@genegarrett3372]

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN your reply comment was soooooooo lame

[@sooty951]

Think it's Nash on keys on this track