• The Stray Gators was the name given by Neil Young to his supporting musicians from 1971 to 1973 and who backed him on the albums Harvest (1972) and Time...
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  • tour with his backing band The Stray Gators. Unlike the album Time Fades Away, which was compiled from later tour dates, the lineup features drummer Kenny...
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    Neil Young (category The Stray Gators members)
    at the last minute. Making a connection with them, he christened them The Stray Gators, and began playing with them. Befitting the immediacy of the project...
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  • recorded with the Stray Gators on the support tour following 1972's highly successful album Harvest. Due to Young's dissatisfaction with the tour, it was...
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    with The Stray Gators on Neil Young's live album Time Fades Away. While Barbata was drumming with CSNY, David Geffen tried to persuade him to join The Eagles...
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  • Neil Young and Henry Lewy. "Time Fades Away" (4:21) – Neil Young with The Stray Gators – previously unreleased version Neil Young – guitar, vocal; Ben Keith...
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  • County, Alabama Tuscaloosa (album), a 2019 live album by Neil Young and the Stray Gators Tuscaloosa (film), a 2019 American film starring Natalia Dyer USS Tuscaloosa...
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  • "Words (Between the Lines of Age)" (15:52) – Neil Young with The Stray Gators – from the original soundtrack album Journey Through the Past Neil Young...
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  • Young is backed on the song by the Stray Gators, with the addition of John Harris on piano. The piano plays a prominent role in the instrumentation. Sound...
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    from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2016-07-23. "Neil Young + Stray Gators – Tuscaloosa" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Archived from the original...
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  • The Stray Gators provide the backing music. Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald describes Ben Keith's playing on pedal steel to be a highlight of the song...
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  • would dub The Stray Gators to record his new songs. The resulting record was a massive hit, producing a US number one single in "Heart of Gold". The album's...
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  • Kenny Buttrey (category The Stray Gators members)
    touring band, the Stray Gators. In 1973, he left the Stray Gators during their tour, with some reports saying he was fired, while others said the fan attention...
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    of The Pinkettes, the backing vocalists on her husband's rockabilly Shocking Pinks tour. In 1994 she made her first nationwide TV appearance at the Academy...
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  • the band's two albums of 1972. In April of that year, after receiving a call from Young to play rhythm guitar as a member of The Stray Gators on the upcoming...
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    organist, he recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at FAME Studios as part of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on such hit R&B songs as Percy Sledge's "When...
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    Young convened the group of musicians that had backed him on the previous albums Harvest and Comes a Time. The group, dubbed the Stray Gators, includes pedal...
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    moving from baroque to folk and rock, Young hired Nitzsche for The Stray Gators, the session musicians behind Young on Harvest (1972) and Time Fades...
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    Brothers. In the fall of 1972, Young placed Whitten on retainer with a view toward including the guitarist in his new touring band, the Stray Gators. However...
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    Ben Keith (category The Stray Gators members)
    steel guitarist with Neil Young, Keith was a fixture of the Nashville country music community in the 1950s and 1960s before working with numerous successful...
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  • Crazy Horse and The Stray Gators. The album includes an early country rock track by Furay, "A Child's Claim to Fame." The track "Rock & Roll Woman" allegedly...
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  • The track features Young on piano backed by the studio band dubbed The Stray Gators, comprising Jack Nitzsche on slide guitar, Ben Keith on pedal steel...
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  • Stills, Nash & Young; rehearsal outtakes from the Harvest sessions with the Stray Gators; and recordings by the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation...
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  • 2020. Covering Young's work with The Stray Gators, Santa Monica Flyers, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crazy Horse, and The Stills-Young Band during this...
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  • Eleven of the first twelve tracks appear on Decade, and the disc spans his solo career from 1969 through 1992. On the rear cover of the album, Young...
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    Graham Nash (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    in 1997 and as a member of the Hollies in 2010. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours List...
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    Young's backing band, the Stray Gators, who played on his Harvest and Harvest Moon albums. Part of the album was recorded live at the Inner Change Cafe in...
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    credited as the sole writer of "I Want to Lay Down Beside You" on the 1972 album Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth. He often played as part of the session rhythm...
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    (David Bowie) The Steep Canyon Rangers (Steve Martin) The Stooges (Iggy Pop) The Strangers (Merle Haggard) The Stray Gators (Neil Young) The Sunshine Band...
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  • on Young's After the Gold Rush (1970) before joining the Whitten-led iteration of Crazy Horse from 1970 to 1971; and the Stray Gators holdover Ben Keith...
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