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Everyone from Roger Daltrey and Lucinda Williams to Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Dave Matthews, and Billy Strings have played the 1989 Neil Young classic in just the last couple of weeks<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tNeil Young and the Restless, which included Crazy Horse guitarist Frank \u201cPoncho\u201d Sampedro, were touring America in early 1989 when a proposed cultural exchange with the Soviet Union \u2014 which would have sent the rock band into the repressive communist nation and the Russian ballet into America \u2014 fell apart.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cNeil was like, \u2018Damn, I really wanted to go,’\u201d Sampedro recalled to Rolling Stone <\/em>in 2013.<\/a> \u201cI said, \u2018Me too. I guess we\u2019ll have to keep on rockin\u2019 in the free world.\u2019 He was like, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s a cool line.\u2019 Then I said it again later and he said, \u2018That\u2019s a really good phrase. I wanna use it.’\u201d<\/p>\n \n