A Haunting Take on "For What It's Worth" | Our Neck of the Woods

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:01][applause] [music] [music] >> There's something happening [singing] here.

[00:00:13]What it is ain't exactly clear. [music] There's a man with a gun over [singing] there.

[00:00:21]Telling me I got to beware.

[00:00:25]Think it's time we stop, [music] children. What's that sound? Everybody look what's going [singing] down.

[00:00:31]>> [music] >> Battle lines [singing] being [music] drawn.

[00:00:37]Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.

[00:00:41][singing] Well, young [music] people speaking their minds.

[00:00:45]Facing so [singing] much resistance [music] from behind. So, stop, children.

[00:00:51]What's that sound? Everybody [singing] look what's going [music] down.

[00:00:56]>> [singing] >> Water filled they found [music] the heat.

[00:01:02]Thousand people in the street.

[00:01:05]Singing songs [singing] and carrying [music] signs.

[00:01:09]Mostly saying, "Hooray for our side."

[00:01:13]Think it's time we stop, children.

[00:01:14][singing] What's that sound? Everybody look what's going down.

[00:01:21]Stop, children. What's that sound?

[00:01:24]Everybody [singing] look what's going [music] down.

[00:01:40]>> [applause] [applause] >> Welcome to our neck of the woods. My name is Kate Davidson and today I'm in the Taylor Guitar Factory with Stella Prince. Thank you so much for being here today, Stella.

[00:02:01]>> thank you for having me. This is truly the biggest honor ever. I feel like I was just born with this love for music, and I've known my entire life that this is exactly what I was meant to do. And what was the soundtrack of your upbringing? What was behind the scenes playing on the radio, on the turntable when you were growing up?

[00:02:20]>> I mean, I would listen to everything.

[00:02:22]From early 1970s music to 1940s big band music that was playing all the time to folk music to I mean, I love Broadway. I still love Broadway. Like all the show tunes and like The Sound of Music soundtrack and Oklahoma like that was probably my earliest memory of falling in love with music.

[00:02:40]>> And as you were learning to play the guitar, were there particular guitar players that stood out to you that inspired you? It's funny. I first learned to strum when I was 9 years old.

[00:02:51]I started guitar lessons at 9, and I hated it. I hated strumming. I hated playing the guitar period because it hurt my fingers. Like my fingers were just too small. And then when I picked it up again when I was 13, I tried finger picking, and I fell madly in love with finger picking, and I still really only finger pick entirely. So all like the folk folk icons really I think are my biggest influences on guitar. Like Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan because they're just finger picking, and it's it's really amazing. It's like an art. I've never seen anything like it the way they do it. What drew you to this particular guitar you're holding today? This is a one of the Ben Harper label guitars, and my eyes immediately were drawn to this. I didn't even play it, and I kind of knew. I was like, this is just the one that I want. It's so beautiful. There's something really special about it, and I put it in my hands, and I was like, okay, this is the one. Like it took me like 0.2 seconds to know that it just felt so right. You played Buffalo Springfield earlier for what it's worth. What does that song mean to you?

[00:03:55]That song to me it is as relevant if not more relevant in 2026 as it was in 1966 when it was written.

[00:04:04]And there's something was so powerful about it. Um really just in every way of what's happening in the world right now. The world is so insane. Mhm. Um I mean the lines of the songs are so I mean so perfect for this year. It's really Mhm.

[00:04:19]I don't think there's any more of a timely song really this year. This is like the song for this insane this insane year. It's just there's so much happening. Mhm. So.

[00:04:31]Yeah, it stood out to me when you said the line young people speaking their minds. That's you here with your guitar.

[00:04:38]So So amazing.

[00:04:39]>> I mean people are out in the streets.

[00:04:40]It's really is like the 60s again.

[00:04:42]There's so so many similarities. So um yeah, I think that song resonates with me, but it resonates with Gen Z. And it resonates with my generation I think almost more than anyone. Well, thank you so much for being in the Taylor Guitar Factory with us today. This has been Our Neck of the Woods with Stella Prince.

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