Overall it was a wonderful set by The Pat Nevins Trio, where they paid their respects to one of the greatest guitarists and songwriting poets in rock n’ roll history, Neil Young. The version of “Cinnamon Girl” sounded much different from the original, also as it was slowed down and had none of the heavy Crazy Horse guitar playing.
One of the last songs Nevins played was another signature Neil Young classic, “Cinnamon Girl,” from Young’s early 70s heyday and his second album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Nevins band also played a spectacular version of “Don’t Cry No Tears,” the lone song they covered off of Neil Young’s Zuma album. A woman in the front row danced back and forth while spinning a white scarf in the air and looking like a flower child of the sixties generation. The crowd at The Starry Plough really started getting into Nevins when he played a killer version of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon.” The dreaminess of the acoustic song and Nevins’s lovely voice brought the crowd into a sort of trance. “The first time I heard Four Way Street I was sixteen years old and it totally got me into Neil Young, because it had the best acoustic versions of “On The Way Home,” “Cowgirl In The Sand,” and “Don’t Let It Bring You Down,” said Nevins. After the show, I talked to Pat and he said that was his intention to play it more like Crosby Stills, Nash, & Young. The way Nevins played “On The Way Home,” sounded more like the version on Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young’s Four Way Street album. Nevins’s version of Buffalo Springfield’s “On The Way Home” was a wonderful touch to the set, especially since it was a song written by Young before he went solo. One thing sounded the same, which was Nevins’s wonderful voice, which was totally on key with Neil’s voice, and you could have guessed Neil himself was in the house.
Instead, this version of “Like A Hurricane” had a mandolin solo and no drums. The Nevins Trio really nailed down a solid version of the Neil Young and Crazy Horse song “Like A Hurricane” it sounded completely different as an acoustic version with none of Young’s crazy guitar soloing, which is featured on his album American Stars N’ Bars. Pat Nevins would continue to cover his muse Neil Young throughout his opening set, while occasionally complaining to the crowd about the sound of his guitar. Nevins continued to master Young’s third solo album with a slow acoustic strumming “I Believe In You.” You could really feel Nevins lyrics as he sang exactly in the high-pitch wail of Neil Young, “Now that you’ve made yourself love me, do you think that I can change it in a day? How can I place you above me? Am I lying to you when I say I believe in you?” The Pat Nevins Trio opened with a stellar acoustic version of Neil Young’s “Oh Lonesome Me,” from Young’s classic After The Goldrush album. The band consisted of vocalist/acoustic guitarist Pat Nevins, mandolinist Mike McKinley, and bassist P.C. The Pat Nevins Trio was the opening band of the night and their set began at 9:30 pm. I arrived a bit early and saw Dead Heads standing outside the bar smoking joints and cigarettes, making me think I was walking down the mythical “Shakedown Street.”
The Starry Plough bar, on the corner of Shattuck and Ashby in Berkeley, stands out on the block as there is not much else around.
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