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After Neil Young left the California folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield in 1968, he slowly established himself as one of the most influential and idiosyncratic singer/songwriters of his generation.

Young's body of work ranks second only to Bob Dylan in terms of depth, and he has sustained his critical reputation, as well as record sales, for a longer period of time than Dylan, partially because of his willfully perverse work ethic.