#new mama

[coreen0]

Mrs. Haru Sakurano, owner of the Sakurano family farm and loving mother of two!

[callmemrscarter]

Hey mama…

Just take the nap.

[rastronomicals]

7:39 AM EST December 31, 2024:

Neil Young - "New Mama" From the album Tonight's the Night (June 20, 1975)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Liquid Albums

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[oceanherbalist]

Now that my baby is crawling and trying to use everything to stand up, no has become prevalent in my vocabulary. I hate it, but she's gotta learn what no means. She's gotta learn that we don't pull pieces off the plant leaves and that wires are dangerous. So I will tell her no, cause she's needs to know.

All this is to say this is a picture of me in mid-no 😆

[sincerelysatanherself]

Excited about this warmer weather and sunshine.

…trying to forget about all the bugs that come with

[meadow-dusk]

hey @elicash & @hotdustyroads...can I come play in your sandbox?

I offer you this: another Stills cover of a Young original (seems like a pattern, and I'm kinda liking it). Neil's version is one of the most peaceful, almost dreamlike moments on all of Tonight's the Night, uncharacteristically quiet and sparse for the album, even ending with multi-part a cappella harmony.

While Neil had this song out on the road for almost two years before that album ever got released, the early versions weren't so stripped down. Stephen took that shape of the song and kept it as is, with its harder rock instrumentation, straightforward harmonies, and that absolutely bizarre and kinda uncomfortable time change in its last movement, put it on Stills, and released it three days after Tonight's the Night, because apparently in those days it was like, customary to just drop an album on a Monday (why not?).

The best part of this, in my opinion, is that the song is pretty clearly a reference to Neil's girlfriend at the time becoming a mother to their child in 1972. By the time Stephen covered it for his 1975 album Stills, he was a new dad too and had every reason to want to share in a similar expression of joy in his own wife's "new mama" status.

[dannydankko]

Feeling good about yourself is so hard postpartum... why did no one tell me this 😅

[gardenofmymiind]