# Down by the River guitar solo > The guitar solo on Down by the River by Neil Young & Crazy Horse (1969) starts at about 2:08. From the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Canonical URL: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, 1969, from *Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere*. Solo by *Neil Young*. The famous one-note-heavy jam shows Young building tension through repetition, distortion and sheer conviction rather than scales. Down by the River by Neil Young & Crazy Horse is ranked #346 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Neil Young and the song was released in 1969. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #46 (uDiscover Music). ## In our lists - [The Best Neil Young Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/neil-young-guitar-solos/) — #2 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1969](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1969/) — #15 - [The Greatest Canadian Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/canadian-guitar-solos/) — #8 ## Sources - [uDiscover Music: The Best Guitar Solos Of All Time: 108 Amazing Moments](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-guitar-solos-ever/) — #46 ### Who played the guitar solo on Down by the River? Neil Young played the solo on Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Down by the River (1969). ### What guitar was used on the Down by the River solo? A gibson les paul (old black) through a Fender Deluxe amp, according to widely reported accounts. ### Where does Down by the River rank among the greatest guitar solos? #346 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)