Just as Neil Young has inspired innumerable younger rockers, he himself had similar experiences with music from before his time. One of these is very memorably documented in Heart of Gold, the 2006 concert film directed by Jonathan Demme, when Young tells the story of being away from home for a long stretch for the first time during his teenage years, and spending all of his money listening to Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds" on a restaurant jukebox. I'm not sure but I think this must be the version that he's referring to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfTDPhMdTk. It's interesting to compare his studio version (from 1978's Comes a Time) to the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZes9fFmXc&feature=related, and also to note that both have a wistful, difficult-to-describe quality that can also be found throughout the amazing body of work that Young has written in the forty years (and change) of his career. Obviously that jukebox money was well spent.