Everybody's Rockin' Songwriting Credits by Neil Young

Everybody's Rockin' is Neil Young's deliberately short rockabilly pastiche, cut with a pickup band billed as the Shocking Pinks during his combative early years on Geffen Records. Roughly half the record is 1950s covers, including Bobby Freeman's "Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes," Slim Harpo's "Rainin' in My Heart," Jimmy Reed's "Bright Lights, Big City," and Junior Parker's "Mystery Train," while the originals are Young's own, among them "Wonderin'," "Jellyroll Man," the title track, and the topical "Payola Blues" co-written with Ben Keith. At under twenty-five minutes it is the briefest album in his catalog, and Geffen famously sued Young for delivering work it called uncommercial and uncharacteristic, a charge he answered with a countersuit. The slim, throwback record has long been read as Young needling a label that wanted hits.