First time I ever smoked pot was in a Frostburg State College dorm room listening to Neil Young’s “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” album. (And no, I did not pick up on the irony of that particular music by that title playing at that particular time.)
Album’s Side two was playing when we first fired up and I remember after a couple hits sitting there saying “I don’t feel anything.” And then the song “Cowgirl in the Sand” began and I started to feel a little funny as Neil sang “Is this place at your command?” A couple more hits off the pipe being passed around and the album was turned over back to side one where Cinnamon Girl’s opening chords kicked in and I was “there” i.e. higher than a kite. To this day, whenever I hear those opening chords to Cinnamon Girl I get a little rush and have to smile a bit. “A dreamer of pictures” you might say.
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| From CNN |
So when I saw that Neil and his wife Pegi of 36 years were splitting (click here) it got me wondering if perhaps she was a factor in either of these songs from my getting high days. Neil’s album Everybody Knows This is Nowhere was actually recorded before he met and married Peg but I found this account on Songfacts where someone related that Cinnamon Girl was indeed about her.
Turns out that she may have been the Cinnamon Girl after all.
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| From http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1267 |