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The Squires or Neil Young & The Squires were a Canadian band formed in 1963 in Winnipeg. It was one of the first bands of singer-songwriter Neil Young.

Recordings

Young formed the Squires in 1963, and the group played at community clubs, high school dances and proms in Winnipeg with Young on electric guitar.[1][2] They played a lot of songs by The Shadows, The Ventures, and The Fireballs.

Young began writing songs, which the band played regularly. On July 23, two of these were recorded by Harry Taylor of local radio station CKRC in a tiny two-track recording studio.[3] The recordings, "Aurora" and "The Sultan", were released later that year as a single released by V Records.[4] 300 records were pressed; in 2006 only around 10 were known to still exist.[5] As of 2024, Discogs lists 23 people as self-proclaimed owners of a copy.[6]

Don and Dewey's song "Farmer John" was a regular staple of their live set, and Young would eventually record it with Crazy Horse on his 1990 album Ragged Glory. The Squires recorded the song "I Wonder," three different times; it became the basis of Young's song "Don't Cry No Tears" on his 1975 album Zuma. "Aint It the Truth" was performed by the Squires, and later recorded by Neil Young & The Bluenotes on his 1988 album This Note's For You.

The band played engagements out of town in nearby rural southern Manitoba towns such as Selkirk, Portage la Prairie, Neepawa, Brandon, and Giroux (near Steinbach), and as far from Winnipeg as Churchill, Manitoba and Fort William, Ontario,[1] traveling in a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse, dubbed Mortimer Hearseburg, or Mort.[7] In April 1964, the group again entered CKRC studios to record with Harry Taylor, and, according to Young recorded "about twenty songs." According to drummer Ken Smyth, these were for a possible deal with London Records of Canada.

La canción de Young, " Sugar Mountain ", fue escrita durante una gira en Fort William con The Squires. En noviembre de ese año, el DJ de la radio CJLX de Fort William invitó a la banda al estudio de la estación, donde grabaron dos versiones de "I'll Love You Forever". [ 8 ] Para entonces, Young había abandonado la escuela secundaria para concentrarse en la banda y su música. [ 9 ] En 1965, con un nuevo baterista, Bob Clark, la banda se mudó a Fort William. [ 10 ] Fue allí donde Young conoció a Stephen Stills . A principios de 1966, The Squires se disolvió y Young se unió a la banda de Toronto, The Mynah Birds . Poco después, Young se mudó a California y se unió a Buffalo Springfield , donde el ex bajista de The Squires, Ken Koblun, también fue brevemente miembro de la banda.

Años después de la disolución del grupo, la colección de Young de 2009, The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972, comenzó con seis grabaciones de The Squires, incluido el sencillo de V Records, masterizado a partir de una copia en vinilo. [ 11 ]

Los Squires son mencionados en el sencillo de Randy Bachman de 1992, "Prairie Town". La canción también cuenta con la participación de Neil Young en la guitarra y los coros.

Discografía

Individual

Compilaciones

Referencias

Citas
  1. 1 2 "Neil Young en busca de un corazón de oro" . Exclaim!, Jason Schneider, 1 de agosto de 2003
  2. ↑ Brian Keizer; Dave Marsh (1996). Neil Young . Boulevard Books. pág.  12. ISBN 978-1-57297-123-3.
  3. ↑ "The Squires Sound", Neil Young: Don't Be Denied: The Canadian Years, de John Einarson, 1992
  4. ↑ "The Squires" .Biografía de Richie Unterberger en AllMusic.
  5. ↑ Noticias sobre Neil Young, trasherswheat.org .
  6. ↑ The Squires (2) – The Sultan Discogs, sitio web consultado el 1 de noviembre de 2024
  7. ↑ "Neil Young a los 70: Diez cosas que debes saber sobre este ícono de la música" . Peter Edwards. Toronto Star , 12 de noviembre de 2015.
  8. ↑ "Four Strong Winds", Neil Young: Don't Be Denied: The Canadian Years, de John Einarson, 1992
  9. ↑ Alfred William Cramer (2009). Músicos y compositores del siglo XX . Salem Press. pág. 1659. ISBN  978-1-58765-517-3.
  10. ↑ Jimmy McDonough (13 de mayo de 2003). Shakey: Biografía de Neil Young . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pág. 164. ISBN  978-1-4000-7544-7.
  11. ↑ "Neil Young, The Archives Vol. 1: 1963–1972" . Pitchfork , 17 de junio de 2009. Stuart Berman.
  • Noticias sobre Neil Young, trasherswheat.org .
  • Entrevista de archivo de Neil Young, entrevista sin cortes con el guitarrista de The Squires, Allan Bates .