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| - %22Mr. Soul%22 is a song written by Canadian rock musician Neil Young, and first recorded by folk rock band Buffalo Springfield and released on their second album, Buffalo Springfield Again. It was originally recorded on January 9, 1967 at Atlantic Studios, New York with an additional recording on April 4, 1967.Young wrote the song after being treated for a seizure disorder. Composed on an acoustic twelve-string guitar, the dark, moody folk tune is in double-drop D tuning, which Young used in a number of other songs, such as %22Ohio%22 and %22Cinnamon Girl%22.The common album version and the mono single have completely different guitar solos (the mono single mix has never been reissued).On track 3 of the album Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968, Young said, %22A lot of songs take a long time to write. Generally they take an hour and a half, two hours to write. But this one took only five minutes.%22Young subsequently recorded several other versions of the song, often with marked stylistic changes. Of all of Young's songs, %22Mr. Soul%22 has been released the most times.
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