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Young's gorgeous, absorbing After The Gold Rush followed soon after, becoming his bestselling solo album to date. "Southern Man" was the record's lightning rod: Along with its sister track, "Alabama" (from Harvest), its sneering condemnation of good-ol'-boy bigotry spit in the face of the emerging Southern-rock trend—although the feud sparked after Lynyrd Skynyrd retaliated with "Sweet Home Alabama" was mostly exaggerated. "Southern Man" ... cemented Young's perspective as both an insider and an outsider; like his friends in The Band, he was a Canadian expatriate whose heart pumped pure, gritty Americana.
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Everybody's Rockin' (1983) is Young's stab at an oldies album. With a band billed as "The Shocking Pinks," it includes proto-rock songs like Jimmy Reed's "Bright Lights, Big City" and the seminal "Mystery Train," as well as Young's own comments and homages like "Payola Blues" and "Jellyroll Man."
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