Mentioned in Dec 2021 Apple Music Barn interview

TP: I love Chevrolet. It's a 15 minute Crazy Horse jam tune NY: I love that one too. It's all electric guitars and jamming and everything. Oddly enough I wrote it on the piano up in Canada at a cottage. Sitting there for months and just walking by the piano every day, messing around. It's got a very complex structure to it - much more complex than any of my other songs that are long songs like Cowgirl or Down By The River or Love And Only Love. All those kind of songs that I've done with The Horse over the years. This is a little more than that. It's evolved to another place. NY: But the song itself about the car, and not just about the car, but all the cars that have been there. They've taken me from place to place through things in my life - that came to me while writing that song. Monumental parts of my life. NY: And now as much as I love that, I need to be thinking about the world. So I can't drive those cars anymore. I haven't driven them in years. I've stopped. No fossil fuel. I won't go if it's fossil fuel. So I'm re-designing and rebuilding some of my old forties cars so they can run on E100 now.' Neil Young CBC - q with Tom Power November 16, 2022

It's so different in my head - songs - I don't know where they came from [talking about the World Record whistling songs]. I don't have the usual grounded out...nothing started that way. Only one song, which is called Chevrolet, which has nothing to do with the rest of the record. It's about - with all the shit happening, thinking about COVID, thinking about war, thinking about all the shit that's happening in the world today and then there's this one song about this guy who's got..."almost bought an old Chevrolet". And he's talking about what it looks like and the gleaming paint and the steering wheel's ivory. It's so great. Rolling the window down. Doing all this shit in the car. And then he keeps talking about the car. He just keeps on going about the fucking car, really for a long time. The only thing about it is that he can't wait to go for a drive, but how's it going to feel burning all that fuel again. The whole car thing is great. He's in traffic - it's the roads, the freeways, the off ramps - all this shit about driving a car and other people driving their cars and people on the street. There's only one just this one little mention of how will it feel burning all that fuel. He just mentions that, but the whole rest of it is like a celebration of great roads and cars and freedom and everything. Neil Young World Record, The Making of November 22, 2022

Although it was written on a piano, the recorded version of Chevrolet is a guitar odyssey, a long wandering voyage marked by changes of fortune. Neil Young NYA Times-Contrarian January 23, 2023

After I finished recording Barn, about a year and a half later, I went up to a place that I really like where I used to live in Canada. We went up there and hung out there. And there's a piano there. So I was walking by the piano every day in this old fishing lodge that we had from the turn of the century, the 1900s, that was built by some wild people. It's great, on the water, and the piano's there. So I started writing this song and every day I'd come walking back and forth walking by this and write a song - a very complicated song and a long song. Each verse was like two minutes plus with no repetition. And it was a piano song. So I had written that song - I just had it in my head. Neil Young Zack Sang Show November 18, 2022