Hear Steve Gunn's cover of Neil Young’s 'Motion Pictures (For Carrie)'
has only performed “Motion Pictures ” once — at New York’s Bottom Line in 1974 — but that hasn’t stopped artists from covering the gut-wrenchingreleased a rendition of the song via Amazon Music, a day before the album’s 45th anniversary.
Gunn’s cover gives the track a funereal touch. His stark, husky voice looms over the lyrics: “Well, all those people, they think they got it made/ But I wouldn’t buy, sell, borrow or trade/Anything I have/ to be like one of them/I’d rather start all over again.” Young probably hasn’t performed “Motion Pictures ” in 45 years because of its intense subject matter — the song is about his disintegrating relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress. He wrote the track in a hotel room at L.A.’s Sunset Marquis, where Young was recording. “Me and Ben [Keith] and Neil were sittin’ in Ben’s room,” guitarist Rusty Kershaw recalled in Jimmy McDonough’s Young biography. “Neil started hummin’ somethin’, and I started palyin’ along with the melody on the steel.
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