Broken Arrow (Buffalo Springfield song)

"Broken Arrow"
Song by Buffalo Springfield
from the album Buffalo Springfield Again
Released	November 18, 1967
Recorded	August 25 & September 5–18, 1967
Studio	Columbia Recording Studio Sunset Sound, Hollywood
Genre	Psychedelic rock art rock proto-prog jazz fusion
Length	6:13
Label	Atco
Songwriter(s)	Neil Young
Producer(s)	Richie Furay Jack Nitzsche Stephen Stills Neil Young

"Broken Arrow" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young and recorded by Buffalo Springfield on their 1967 album Buffalo Springfield Again. It was recorded in August and September 1967 at Columbia Recording Studios and Sunset Sound Recorders. It incorporates musical ideas from "Down Down Down," a demo Young recorded with Buffalo Springfield (later released on their eponymous box set).^[1]^[2]

"Broken Arrow" was confessional folk rock. It consists of three parts in three different time signatures interspersed with snippets of sounds, featuring organ, a jazz combo with piano, bass, drums, and a clarinet. The song begins with audience applause (taken not from a Buffalo Springfield show, as some expect, but rather from a concert by the Beatles) and the opening of "Mr. Soul" (which opens the album) recorded in the studio. The second verse begins with the sound of an audience booing, while the Calliope plays a version of the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", before sound effects bring on the verse. There is also the sound of a military snare drum that plays drum rolls, first quietly, and getting louder and louder, until the fifth time, an unusual sound effect brings the song to the third verse. The Jazz combo plays an improvisation, first taken up by the clarinet, and followed by the piano, until it fades out. The beating of a heart is then heard until it fades out as well.^[3]

Each of the three verses uses surreal imagery to deal with emotions (emptiness of fame, teenage angst, hopelessness), and contains self-references to Buffalo Springfield and Young. They all end with the same lines:

Did you see them, did you see them?
Did you see them in the river?
They were there to wave to you.
Could you tell that the empty-quivered
Brown-skinned Indian on the banks
That were crowded and narrow,
Held a broken arrow?^[2]

An acoustic solo version of the song appears on the Neil Young live album Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 which was released on Reprise Records in 2008.^[4]

Of the members of the band, only Young was present at the recording. Background vocals from Richie Furay were added on later.^[2]

Historical references

The Creek Indians held a ceremony after the Civil War that included a breaking of an arrow to symbolize the war's end.^[5]

References

^ "Down Down Down". Neil Young Archives. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Broken Arrow (stereo)". Neil Young Archives. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
^ ""Broken Arrow": The unusual song Neil Young wrote after quitting Buffalo Springfield". Far Out. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
^ "Sugar Mountain Live at Canterbury House 1968". Neil Young Archives. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
^ Davenport, Linda. "History of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma". Retrieved 12 May 2017.

External links

Allmusic Review

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Richie Furay Dewey Martin Jim Messina Stephen Stills Neil Young Bruce Palmer
Studio albums	Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again Last Time Around
Compilations and box sets	Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield (compilation album) Buffalo Springfield (box set) What's That Sound? Complete Albums Collection
Songs	"Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" "For What It's Worth" "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" "Bluebird" "Mr. Soul" "Broken Arrow" "Expecting to Fly"
Related artists	The Au Go Go Singers The Mynah Birds Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young The Stills-Young Band Poco Manassas Crazy Horse Loggins and Messina

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Archives series

Box sets	The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972 Neil Young Archives Volume II: 1972–1976 Neil Young Archives Volume III: 1976–1987
Performance series	Live at the Fillmore East Live at Massey Hall 1971 Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968 Live at the Riverboat 1969 Dreamin' Man Live '92 A Treasure Live at the Cellar Door Bluenote Café Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live Songs for Judy Tuscaloosa Return to Greendale Way Down in the Rust Bucket Young Shakespeare Noise & Flowers
Special release series	Hitchhiker Paradox Homegrown Toast Chrome Dreams Odeon Budokan Dume Early Daze
Official bootleg series	Carnegie Hall 1970 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 Royce Hall 1971 Citizen Kane Jr. Blues Somewhere Under the Rainbow High Flyin'

Songs

1960s	"Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" "Mr. Soul" "Broken Arrow" "Expecting to Fly" "Sugar Mountain" "The Loner" "I've Been Waiting for You" "The Old Laughing Lady" "Cinnamon Girl" "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" "Down by the River" "Cowgirl in the Sand" "Dance, Dance, Dance"
1970s	"Helpless" "Country Girl" "Ohio" "Tell Me Why" "After the Gold Rush" "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" "Southern Man" "Don't Let It Bring You Down" "When You Dance I Can Really Love" "I Believe in You" "Bad Fog of Loneliness" "Out on the Weekend" "Harvest" "A Man Needs a Maid" "Heart of Gold" "Are You Ready for the Country?" "Old Man" "The Needle and the Damage Done" "War Song" "L.A." "Tonight's the Night" "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown" "Tired Eyes" "New Mama" "Danger Bird" "Cortez the Killer" "Will to Love" "Like a Hurricane" "Love Is a Rose" "Lotta Love" "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" "Pocahontas" "Powderfinger" "Sedan Delivery"
1980s and later	"Rainin' in My Heart" "Grey Riders" "Rockin' in the Free World" "Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)" "No More" "Wrecking Ball" "Harvest Moon" "Unknown Legend" "From Hank to Hendrix" "Downtown" "Let's Impeach the President" "Angry World" "A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop"

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