A Fever on the Freeway

Guest writer Terry Barr takes a look at Neil Young's debut album.

At fourteen, I longed for the “pretty…country girl,” whoever she might be.

Neil Young Self-Titled Debut Album (image subject to copyright)

Though maybe I had heard his name somewhere before, it was CSNY’s 1970 LP Deja Vu that first brought Neil Young to my attention. I was only fourteen then, and part of me questions, “What did I really know about music?”…