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For those of us not blessed with musical ability, watching a musician compose, finesse, or simply rehearse a song is like watching a magic trick from the magician\u2019s sleeve. Seeing where the signatures or stamps are put into place can feel like being given access to the very creation of light and dark itself, sitting next to a cosmic deity as the world unfurls around you. What makes it more impressive is when artists like Neil Young<\/a> do it so flippantly.<\/p>\n Most songwriters will speak to some kind of higher power taking over their songwriting skills when they sit down to get a few tunes laid down on tape. They are simply the conduits to the creation, allowing the words and notes to flow through them as they become a canal receiving the barge of hopeful pop music. Even people in the studio, like engineers and producers, who have watched countless artists perform the same miracle, can be left astounded.<\/p>\n When Young sat down for the \u2018Indigo Sessions\u2019 in 1976, he completed this very trick, leaving his dutiful producer David Briggs agog as Young delivered a ream of incredible tracks with no warm-up or practice, and seemingly without having ever written the tunes down. \u201cHe\u2019d turn to me and go, \u2018Guess I\u2019ll turn on the tap,’\u201d Briggs said of the Indigo sessions.<\/p>\n For most people, this might be a few lines or the odd track, but for Young it was a procession of some of his most beloved songs, as Briggs continues: \u201cAnd then out came \u2018Powderfinger\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Pocahontas\u2019, \u2018Out Of The Blue\u2019, \u2018Ride My Llama\u2019. I\u2019m not talking about sitting down with a pen and paper. I\u2019m talking about picking up a guitar, sitting there and looking me in the face and in 20 minutes: \u2018Pocahontas\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n There is good cause for Briggs\u2019 statement\u2019s truly astounded tone. Not to mention the other songs, for which we can\u2019t be exactly sure how long their composition took, but \u2018Pocahontas\u2019 is one of Young\u2019s most mercurial efforts. <\/p>\n