Song You Need To Know: Neil Young's 'Alabama (Live)'
‘s “Alabama,” Young’s alternately questioning, pleading and raging missive to a problematic state that, at the time, was still being run by Governor, whose racist ’72 presidential campaign had been gaining strength when an assassin’s bullets took him out of the race, if not out of office. “Oh Alabama — can I see you and shake your hand?,” Young beckons, in what seems a sincere gesture, wanting to “make friends in Alabama.
” Unlike his early indictment “Southern Man,” the mood here — with Young’s electric guitar glinting alongside Jack Nietzche’s hammering piano chords and Ben Keith’s snaky pedal-steel coils — is less about division than forging progressive coalition, even as Young targets a legacy that includes the Klan . “What are you doin, Alabama?/ You’ve got the rest of the union to help you along. What’s going wrong?,” he asks. Sometimes it takes a Canadian to zero in on American truth.
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