This tuning is used in several of his most famous songs, such as ' The Loner', 'The Old Laughing Lady', ' When You Dance I Can Really Love', ' Ohio', and ' Cortez the Killer'. The song was written in double drop D tuning (DADGBD). The NME named 'Cinnamon Girl' an example of 'proto-grunge from 1969'. (The 45 rpm single mix of the song, in addition to being in mono and cutting off the guitar outro, features Whitten's vocal more prominently than the album version.) Young performed the song on his then-recently acquired Gibson Les Paul, ' Old Black'. The vocals are a duet, with Whitten singing the high harmony against Young's low harmony. This song displays the very prominent role played by Danny Whitten in the sound of Young's early recordings. Like two other songs from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, ' Cowgirl in the Sand' and ' Down by the River', Young wrote 'Cinnamon Girl' while he was suffering from the flu with a high fever at his home in Topanga, California.

It debuted on the 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, which was also Young's first album with backing band Crazy Horse. ' Cinnamon Girl' is a song by Neil Young. 'Cinnamon Girl' (2009 Remaster) on YouTube Neil Young and Crazy Horse singles chronology

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