SONG OF THE DAY

“Long May You Run (Live Acoustic)” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Live at VH1’s Storytellers, 2000). Written by Neil Young.

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

– The track originally appeared on the 1976 album Long May You Run by The Stills-Young Band, a collaboration between Stephen Stills and Neil Young. The album peaked at #26 on the Billboard 200, was certified gold in the U.S. by the RIAA and remains the sole studio release by The Stills-Young Band.

– The album stemmed from a desire by both Young and Stills to pick up where they left off with their Buffalo Springfield-era guitar explorations. After a while, David Crosby and Graham Nash became involved with the project, and Long May You Run briefly became a CSNY album. However, Crosby and Nash eventually departed the project to focus on the material for what would become the duo’s 1976 album, Whistling Down the Wire, and Young and Stills would remove Crosby and Nash’s vocal harmonies and other contributions from the master tapes.

– The title track, the album’s first single which peaked at #71 on the UK singles chart, was an elegy for Neil Young’s first car, a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse named “Mort” (a.k.a. “Mortimer Hearseburg”).

– “Long May You Run” was performed by Neil Young on the final episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on January 22, 2010, and during the closing ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics on February 28, 2010. Young performed with a harmonica and acoustic guitar.

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