2017 - September 10 - Powderfinger

There is something about Powderfinger that really breaks my heart. And it's more than the fact that the narrator dies at the end. It's the way he does - and the way Neil Young's voice really conveys the loss of innocence just before he dies. The version I have listened to the most is the loud electric version he did with Crazy Horse on Weld, but Friday his latest album hit the stores, and this acoustic version from the 70s showed up. Here is the Hitchhiker version of Powderfinger...