Neil Young’s ‘Archives Vol. III’ will be available on September 6 and includes recordings that show the unheralded sweep of Young's efforts from the 1976-1987 period of his journey. It is one of the most extensive anthologies in his recorded history.

The set contains 17 CD’s in 11 soft-paks which showcase 198 total musical tracks including 121 previously unreleased versions of live, studio, mixes, or edits, and 15 previously unreleased songs, available here for the first time ever. 62 tracks have been available on various recordings. The box also includes a poster.

In addition, a double vinyl LP only set titled Takes, will also be available on September 6. Takes is a 16 track compilation featuring one track from 16 out of the 17 CD’s in the Archives Vol. III Box Set. This collection will include 3 unreleased songs and 12 previously unreleased versions and will be the only vinyl edition to feature these songs.

The Neil Young Archives series has been something like a living musical museum that can be visited in a personal way, curated by the person who actually created all of the music and films. It is ever-changing as it moves forward through the life of someone who does not stop, continually looking forward as he studies and shares a past that stays alive.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl:
Side A:
01 Hey Babe (previously Unreleased Version) (From: Snapshot In Time: Neil Young With Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt)
02 Drive Back (previously Unreleased Live Version) (From: Across The Water II: Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
03 Hitchhikin' Judy (From: Hitchhikin' Judy: Neil Young)
04 Let It Shine (previously Unreleased Live Version) (From: Across The Water I: Neil Young & Crazy Horse)

Side B:
01 Sail Away (previously Unreleased Original) (From: Windward Passage: The Ducks)
02 Comes A Time (previously Unreleased Version) (From: Oceanside Countryside: Neil Young)
03 Lady Wingshot (previously Unreleased Song) (From: Union Hall: Neil Young & Nicolette Larson)
04 Thrasher (previously Unreleased Live Version) (From: Boarding House I: Neil Young)

Side C:
01 Hey Hey, My My, (Into The Black) (From: Boarding House II: Neil Young)
02 Bright Sunny Day (previously Unreleased Song) (From: Sedan Delivery: Neil Young With Crazy Horse)
03 Winter Winds (previously Unreleased Song) (From: Coastline: Neil Young)
04 If You Got Love (previously Unreleased Version) (From: Trans/Johnny's Island: Neil Young)

Side D:
01 Razor Love (From: Evolution: Neil Young)
02 This Old House (previously Unreleased Original) (From: Grey Riders: Neil Young And The International Harvesters)
03 Barstool Blues (previously Unreleased Live Version) (From: Touch The Night: Neil Young With Crazy Horse)
04 Last Of His Kind (previously Unreleased Original) (From: Summer Songs: Neil Young)


CD Box Set:
Disc 1: Across The Water I (1976) Neil Young & Crazy Horse
1. Let It Shine (previously Unreleased Live Version)
2. Mellow My Mind (previously Unreleased Live Version)
3. Too Far Gone (previously Unreleased Live Version)
4. Only Love Can Break Your Heart (previously Unreleased Live Version)
5. A Man Needs A Maid (previously Unreleased Live Version)
6. No One Seems To Know (previously Unreleased Live Version)
7. Heart Of Gold (previously Unreleased Live Version)
8. Country Home (previously Unreleased Live Version)
9. Don't Cry No Tears (previously Unreleased Live Version)
10. Cowgirl In The Sand (previously Unreleased Mix)
11. Lotta Love (previously Unreleased Live Version)
12. The Losing End (When You’re On) (previously Unreleased Live Version)
13. Southern Man (previously Unreleased Live Version)
14. Cortez The Killer (previously Unreleased Live Version)

Disc 2: Across The Water II (1976): Neil Young & Crazy Horse
1. Human Highway (previously Unreleased Live Version)
2. The Needle And The Damage Done (previously Unreleased Live Version)
3. Stringman (previously Unreleased Mix)
4. Down By The River (previously Unreleased Live Version)
5. Like A Hurricane (previously Unreleased Live Version)
6. Drive Back (previously Unreleased Live Version)
7. Cortez The Killer (previously Unreleased Live Version)
8. Homegrown (previously Unreleased Live Version)

Disc 3: Hitchhikin’ Judy (1976-1977): Neil Young
1. Rap
2. Powderfinger (previously Released On Hitchhiker)
3. Captain Kennedy (previously Released On Hawks & Doves, Hitchhiker And Hawks & Doves)
4. Hitchhiker (previously Released On Hitchhiker)
5. Give Me Strength (previously Released On Hitchhiker)
6. The Old Country Waltz (previously Released On Hitchhiker)
7. Rap
8. Too Far Gone (previously Released On Songs For Judy)
9. White Line (previously Released On Songs For Judy)
10. Mr. Soul (previously Released On Songs For Judy)
11. A Man Needs A Maid (previously Released On Songs For Judy)
12. Journey Through The Past (previously Released On Songs For Judy)
13. Campaigner (previously Released On Songs For Judy)
14. The Old Laughing Lady (previously Released On Songs For Judy)
15. The Losing End (When You’re On) (previously Released On Songs For Judy)
16. Rap
17. Helpless (previously Released On The Last Waltz)
18. Four Strong Winds (previously Released On The Last Waltz (2002 Edition))
19. Rap
20. Will To Love (previously Released On American Stars ‘n Bars And Chrome Dreams)
21. Lost In Space (previously Unreleased Original)

Disc 4: Snapshot In Time (1977): Neil Young With Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt
1. Rap
2. Hold Back The Tears (previously Released On Chrome Dreams)
3. Rap
4. Long May You Run (previously Unreleased Version)
5. Hey Babe (previously Unreleased Version)
6. The Old Country Waltz (previously Unreleased Version)
7. Hold Back The Tears (previously Unreleased Version)
8. Peace Of Mind (previously Unreleased Version)
9. Sweet Lara Larue (previously Unreleased Version)
10. Bite The Bullet (previously Unreleased Version)
11. Saddle Up The Palomino (previously Unreleased Version)
12. Star Of Bethlehem (previously Unreleased Version)
13. Bad News Comes To Town (previously Unreleased Version)
14. Motorcycle Mama (previously Unreleased Version)
15. Rap
16. Hey Babe (previously Released On American Stars N Bars)
17. Rap
18. Barefoot Floors (previously Unreleased Version)

Disc 5: Windward Passage (1977) The Ducks
1. Rap
2. I Am A Dreamer (previously Released On High Flyin’)
3. Sail Away (previously Unreleased Original)
4. Wide Eyed And Willin' (previously Released On High Flyin’)
5. I’m Tore Down (previously Released On High Flyin’)
6. Little Wing (previously Released On High Flyin’)
7. Hey Now (previously Released On High Flyin’)
8. Windward Passage (previously Unreleased Edit)
9. Cryin' Eyes (previously Unreleased Original)

Disc 6: Oceanside Countryside (1977): Neil Young
1. Rap
2. Field Of Opportunity (previously Unreleased Mix)
3. It Might Have Been (previously Unreleased Version)
4. Dance Dance Dance (previously Unreleased Version)
5. Rap
6. Pocahontas (previously Unreleased Mix)
7. Peace Of Mind (previously Unreleased Mix)
8. Sail Away (previously Unreleased Mix)
9. Human Highway (previously Unreleased Mix)
10. Comes A Time (previously Unreleased Version)
11. Lost In Space (previously Released On Hawks & Doves)
12. Goin’ Back (previously Unreleased Mix)

Disc 7: Neil Young & Nicolette Larson Union Hall (1977):
1. Comes A Time (previously Released On Comes A Time)
2. Love/Art Blues (previously Unreleased Version)
3. Rap
4. Are You Ready For The Country? (previously Unreleased Version)
5. Dance Dance Dance/Love Is A Rose (previously Unreleased Version)
6. Old Man (previously Unreleased Version)
7. The Losing End (When You're On) (previously Unreleased Version)
8. Heart Of Gold (previously Unreleased Version)
9. Already One (previously Unreleased Version)
10. Lady Wingshot (previously Unreleased Song)
11. Four Strong Winds (previously Unreleased Version)
12. Down By The River (previously Unreleased Version)
13. Alabama (previously Unreleased Version)
14. Are You Ready For The Country? (reprise) (previously Unreleased Version)
15. Rap
16. We’re Having Some Fun Now (previously Unreleased Song)
17. Rap
18. Please Help Me, I'm Falling (previously Unreleased Version)
19. Motorcycle Mama (previously Released On Comes A Time)

Disc 8: Boarding House I (1978): Neil Young
1. Rap
2. Shots (previously Unreleased Live Version)
3. Thrasher (previously Unreleased Live Version)
4. The Ways Of Love (previously Unreleased Live Version)
5. Ride My Llama (previously Unreleased Live Version)
6. Sail Away (previously Unreleased Live Version)
7. Pocahontas (previously Unreleased Live Version)
8. Human Highway (previously Unreleased Live Version)
9. Already One (previously Unreleased Live Version)
10. Birds (previously Unreleased Live Version)
11. Cowgirl In The Sand (previously Unreleased Live Version)
12. Sugar Mountain (previously Unreleased Live Version)
13. Powderfinger (previously Unreleased Live Version)
14. Comes A Time (previously Unreleased Live Version)

Disc 9: Devo & Boarding House II (1978): Neil Young And Devo
1. Rap
2. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) (previously Unreleased Version)
3. Back To The Boarding House
4. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (previously Unreleased Live Version)
5. Homegrown (previously Unreleased Live Version)
6. Down By The River (previously Unreleased Live Version)
7. After The Gold Rush (previously Unreleased Live Version)
8. Out Of My Mind (previously Unreleased Live Version)
9. Dressing Room

Disc 10: Sedan Delivery (1978): Neil Young With Crazy Horse
1. Bright Sunny Day (previously Unreleased Song)
2. The Loner (previously Released On Live Rust)
3. Welfare Mothers (previously Released On Rust Never Sleeps)
4. Lotta Love (previously Released On Live Rust)
5. Sedan Delivery (previously Released On Rust Never Sleeps)
6. Cortez The Killer (previously Released On Live Rust)
7. Tonight's The Night (previously Released On Live Rust)
8. Powderfinger (previously Released On Rust Never Sleeps)
9. When You Dance, I Can Really Love (previously Released On Live Rust)
10. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) (previously Released On Rust Never Sleeps)

Disc 11: Coastline (1980-1981): Neil Young
1. Coastline (previously Released On Hawks & Doves)
2. Stayin’ Power (previously Released On Hawks & Doves)
3. Hawks And Doves (previously Released On Hawks & Doves)
4. Comin' Apart At Every Nail (previously Released On Hawks & Doves)
5. Union Man (previously Released On Hawks & Doves)
6. Winter Winds (previously Unreleased Song)
7. Southern Pacific (previously Released On RE-AC-TOR.)
8. Opera Star (previously Released On RE-AC-TOR.)
9. Rapid Transit (previously Released On RE-AC-TOR.)
10. Sunny Inside (previously Unreleased Original)
11. Surfer Joe And Moe The Sleaze (previously Released On RE-AC-TOR.)
12. Get Up (previously Unreleased Song)

Disc 12: Trans (1981) & Johnny’s Island (1982): Neil Young
1. Rap
2. Sample And Hold (previously Released On Trans)
3. Mr. Soul (previously Released On Trans)
4. Computer Cowboy (previously Released On Trans)
5. We R In Control (previously Released On Trans)
6. Computer Age (previously Released On Trans)
7. Transformer Man (previously Released On Trans)
8. Rap
9. Johnny (previously Unreleased Song)
10. Island In The Sun (previously Unreleased Song)
11. Rap
12. Silver & Gold (previously Unreleased Version)
13. If You Got Love (previously Unreleased Version)
14. Raining In Paradise (previously Unreleased Song)
15. Big Pearl (previously Unreleased Song)
16. Hold On To Your Love (previously Released On Trans)
17. Soul Of A Woman (previously Unreleased Original)
18. Rap
19. Love Hotel (previously Unreleased Song)

Disc 13: Evolution (1983-1984): Neil Young
1. California Sunset (previously Unreleased Original)
2. My Boy (previously Unreleased Original)
3. Old Ways (previously Unreleased Version)
4. Depression Blues (previously Released On Lucky 13)
5. Cry, Cry, Cry (previously Released On Everybody’s Rockin’)
6. Mystery Train (previously Released On Everybody’s Rockin’)
7. Payola Blues (previously Released On Everybody’s Rockin’)
8. Betty Lou's Got A New Pair Of Shoes (previously Released On Everybody’s Rockin’)
9. Bright Lights, Big City (previously Released On Everybody’s Rockin’)
10. Rainin' In My Heart (previously Released On Everybody’s Rockin’)
11. Get Gone (previously Unreleased Original)
12. I Got A Problem (previously Unreleased Original)
13. Hard Luck Stories (previously Unreleased Original)
14. Your Love (previously Unreleased Version)
15. If You Got Love (previously Unreleased Version)
16. Razor Love (previously Unreleased Original)

Disc 14: Grey Riders (1984-1986): Neil Young With The International Harvesters
1. Amber Jean (previously Unreleased Original)
2. Get Back To The Country (previously Unreleased Original)
3. Are You Ready For The Country? (previously Released On A Treasure)
4. It Might Have Been (previously Released On A Treasure)
5. Bound For Glory (previously Released On A Treasure)
6. Let Your Fingers Do The Walking (previously Released On A Treasure)
7. Soul Of A Woman (previously Released On A Treasure)
8. Misfits (Dakota) (previously Unreleased Live Version)
9. Nothing Is Perfect (previously Unreleased Version)
10. Time Off For Good Behavior (previously Unreleased Song)
11. This Old House (previously Unreleased Original)
12. Southern Pacific (previously Released On A Treasure)
13. Interstate (previously Unreleased Live Version)
14. Grey Riders (previously Released On A Treasure)

Disc 15: Touch The Night (1984): Neil Young With Crazy Horse
1. Rock (previously Unreleased Song)
2. So Tired (previously Unreleased Song)
3. Violent Side (previously Unreleased Live Version)
4. I Got A Problem (previously Unreleased Live Version)
5. Your Love (previously Unreleased Song)
6. Barstool Blues (previously Unreleased Live Version)
7. Welfare Mothers (previously Unreleased Live Version)
8. Touch The Night (previously Unreleased Live Version)

Disc 16: Road Of Plenty (1984-1986): Neil Young
1. Drifter (previously Released On Landing On Water)
2. Hippie Dream (previously Released On Landing On Water)
3. Bad News Beat (previously Released On Landing On Water)
4. People On The Street (previously Released On Landing On Water)
5. Weight Of The World (previously Released On Landing On Water)
6. Pressure (previously Released On Landing On Water)
7. Road Of Plenty (previously Unreleased Song)
8. We Never Danced (previously Unreleased Original)
9. When Your Lonely Heart Breaks (previously Unreleased Original)

Disc 17: Summer Songs (1987): Neil Young
1. Rap
2. American Dream (previously Unreleased Original)
3. Someday (previously Unreleased Original)
4. For The Love Of Man (previously Unreleased Original)
5. One Of These Days (previously Unreleased Original)
6. Wrecking Ball (previously Unreleased Original)
7. Hangin On A Limb (previously Unreleased Original)
8. Name Of Love (previously Unreleased Original)
9. Last Of His Kind (previously Unreleased Original)
10. Rap

"There is something so historic about the earliest recordings of Neil Young with Crazy Horse that even the most devoted fans of Young and that pivotal band cannot contain their excitement when new releases are scheduled – continuing with the release of ‘Early Daze’ on June 28th.

Representing the first time that the music the band performs has been collected on one album like this set, ‘Early Daze’ includes some of the most iconic originals by Neil Young, and several with contributions by band guitarist Danny Whitten. It is Young’s first band after the breakup of Buffalo Springfield, and set one of the high marks of rock ‘n’ roll at the end of the 1960s when all these songs were written.

This new collection of Neil Young with Crazy Horses’ earliest recordings includes several original versions that have not been released before, along with the 7-inch mono mix of ‘Cinnamon Girl’ that was released in 1970 that includes a guitar outro not on the original LP version."

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: He's done a bit of music hasn't he, our Neil? Well, this one sees Neil and the Crazy Horse band's early days after the fusion of Young and L.A. Band the Rockets. Many tunes ensued, this is the first few INCLUDING a new version of 'Helpless'.

TRACK LISTING

Dance Dance Dance (included On Neil Young - Archives Vol. I.)
Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown (unreleased Version)
Winterlong (unreleased Version)
Everybody’s Alone (different Mix Included On Archives Vol. I)
Wonderin’ (unreleased Version)
Cinnamon Girl (original 7” Mono Mix. Released April 20, 1970. Includes Guitar Outro Not On Lp Version.)
Look At All The Things (unreleased Version)
Helpless (unreleased Version)
Birds (unreleased Stereo Mix). Mono Mix Was Released As B-side To “only Love Can Break Your Heart”)
Down By The River (unreleased Version With Alternate Vocals)

A live performance of the "Ragged Glory" album, recorded at a club in Toronto in 2023

“Why do these old songs live so vividly now? They do to me.”

Neil Young with Crazy Horse in all their “Ragged Glory”.

Neil & The Horse have played together for over 50 years and the performances of these songs is a true highlight of that long relationship.

9 songs over 2LPs with the original song titles replaced with selected lyrics. (“Farmer John”, being a cover, retains its original title.)

The album was recorded in 2023, with this line-up:

Billy Talbot – Bass, vocal
Ralph Molina – Drums, vocal
Micah Nelson – Guitar, vocal, piano
Nils Lofgren – Guitar, vocal, piano
Neil Young – Guitar, vocal, harmonica

Neil: “In the spirit it’s offered…made this for the Horse lovers. I can’t stop it. The horse is runnin’. What a ride we have. I don’t want to mess with the vibe. I am so happy to have this to share.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Another live document from one of the most storied and legendary figures in the music business. Fu##kin Up shows Young and the band in fine form, with captivating performances (obviously) and a stylistic fluidity that such a well-heeled collaboration fosters.

TRACK LISTING

1. City Life
2. Feels Like A Railroad (River Of Pride)
3. Heart Of Steel
4. Broken Circle
5. Valley Of Hearts
6. Farmer John
7. Walkin' In My Place (Road Of Tears)
8. To Follow One's Own Dream
9. Chance On Love

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 20TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.

This is a live performance of the "Ragged Glory" album, recorded at a club in Toronto in 2023

When Neil Young assembles a special edition of his songs, the delight is in the details. ‘Dume’ is a new limited-edition all analogue vinyl pressing of 16 songs that were originally collected for Neil Young’s ‘Archives Vol. II’, released in autumn 2020. Set to be released on February 23rd.

The album features recordings, some of which were part of the historic ‘Zuma’ album sessions by Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and others previously unreleased, are a detailed look at one of the most exciting periods in Neil’s rock & roll life. ‘Dume’ captures the live-wire spark of Young's music during those years, and this full-bore attack is somewhat of a turning point for Young and the band.

Neil Young, Crazy Horse, and producer David Briggs were living in the Point Dume area of Malibu and recording at their own direction. The songs Young was writing on the ‘Dume’ collection came at a steady stream, and after the twisty turns of ‘Tonight’s The Night’, the group felt open and free. ‘Zuma’, named after the beach they lived near, came together in wide-open sessions that had the air of freedom itself. In assembling ‘Dume’ – initially released as Disc 8 of the ‘Archives Vol. II’ box set - Young's unfolding plan was to weave songs from the album with unreleased tracks and mixes from that period. ‘Dume’ is somewhat of a Mad Hatter's take, using the ‘Zuma’ album as a starting point and expanding that scope into a brand-new entity. Now it is available with the superior sound it was recorded in, via analogue master tapes and vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
01. Ride My Llama
02. Cortez The Killer*
03. Don’t Cry No Tears*
04. Born To Run
Side B:
01. Barstool Blues*
02. Danger Bird*
03. Stupid Girl*
04. Kansas
Side C:
01. Powderfinger
02. Hawaii
03. Drive Back*
Side D:
01. Lookin’ For A Love*
02. Pardon My Heart*
03. Too Far Gone
04. Pocahontas
05. No One Seems To Know

N.B. Asterisked Songs Appear On Zuma.
All Other Songs Are Non-album Tracks/outtakes.

On Before And After, Neil Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone on a solo acoustic journey.

Each of the songs blend into each other and morph with mesmerizing clarity into a continuous flow of music creating a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience.

The 13-track album spans Neil’s career, from his early Buffalo Springfield contribution, "Burned" (1966) to the recent "Don't Forget Love"(2021) and includes the previously unreleased song “If You Got Love”.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A beautiful collection of minimally rendered pieces from Neil Young here, playing some of his lesser known compositions (including 'On The Way Home' written by Young but released by Buffalo Springfield in 1968) on acoustic guitar, harmonica and vocals. It's an intimate, thoughtful collection and is a legendary document from one of the most beloved musicians of our time.

TRACK LISTING

01 I’m The Ocean
02 Homefires
03 Burned
04 On The Way Home
05 If You Got Love
06 A Dream That Can Last
07 Birds
08 My Heart
09 When I Hold You In My Arms
10 Mother Earth
11 Mr Soul
12 Comes A Time
13 Don’t Forget Love

The start of a musician's career is not only an intriguing collection of what happened, but maybe even more important is a gaze into what their future might hold. With musical artist Neil Young, Archives Vol. I: 1963-1972 offers the sounds of his first decade, but just as importantly holds a light on the future of what's to come. Young's world of sound and spirit remains a never-ending adventure. It starts here.

Neil Young Archives Vol. I: 1963-1972 is the first in a series of archival box sets encompassing Young’s entire career. Vol. I was originally released on June 2, 2009, in three formats: A 10-disc deluxe edition in either Blu-ray or DVD and an 8-disc CD box.

Out of print for over a decade, the 8-CD box set is now being re-issued in its original format – housed in the “Garypak”, a unique package designed by Young’s long-time art director, the late Gary Burden. Each CD has its own custom sleeve.

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 EARLY YEARS (1963-1968):
1 Aurora The Squires
2 The Sultan The Squires
3 I Wonder The Squires
4 Mustang The Squires
5 Iʼll Love You Forever The Squires
6 (Iʼm A Man And) I Can’t Cry The Squires
7 Hello Lonely Woman Neil Young & Comrie Smith
8 Casting Me Away From You Neil Young & Comrie Smith
9 There Goes My Babe Neil Young & Comrie Smith
10 Sugar Mountain Neil Young
11 Nowadays Clancy Canʼt Even Sing Neil Young
12 Runaround Babe Neil Young
13 The Ballad Of Peggy Grover Neil Young
14 The Rent Is Always Due Neil Young
15 Extra, Extra Neil Young
16 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong Neil Young
17 Burned Buffalo Springfield
18 Out Of My Mind Buffalo Springfield
19 Down, Down, Down Neil Young
20 Kahuna Sunset Buffalo Springfield
21 Mr. Soul Buffalo Springfield
22 Sell Out Buffalo Springfield
23 Down To The Wire Neil Young
24 Expecting To Fly Buffalo Springfield
25 Slowly Burning Neil Young
26 One More Sign Neil Young
27 Broken Arrow Buffalo Springfield
28 I Am A Child Buffalo Springfield

DISC 2 TOPANGA 1 (1968-1969):
1 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young
2 The Loner Neil Young
3 Birds Neil Young
4 What Did You Do To My Life? Neil Young
5 The Last Trip To Tulsa Neil Young
6 Here We Are In The Years Neil Young
7 Iʼve Been Waiting For You Neil Young
8 The Old Laughing Lady Neil Young
9 Iʼve Loved Her So Long Neil Young
10 Sugar Mountain Neil Young
11 Nowadays Clancy Canʼt Even Sing Neil Young
12 Down By The River Neil Young With Crazy Horse
13 Cowgirl In The Sand Neil Young With Crazy Horse
14 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young With Crazy Horse

DISC 3 LIVE AT THE RIVERBOAT (TORONTO 1969):
1 Sugar Mountain Neil Young
2 The Old Laughing Lady Neil Young
3 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong Neil Young
4 On The Way Home Neil Young
5 Iʼve Loved Her So Long Neil Young
6 I Am A Child Neil Young
7 1956 Bubblegum Disaster Neil Young
8 The Last Trip To Tulsa Neil Young
9 Broken Arrow Neil Young
10 Whiskey Boot Hill Neil Young
11 Expecting To Fly Neil Young

DISC 4 TOPANGA 2 (1969-1970)”
1 Cinnamon Girl Neil Young With Crazy Horse
2 Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets) Neil Young With Crazy Horse
3 Round And Round (It Wonʼt Be Long) Neil Young With Crazy Horse
4 Oh Lonesome Me Neil Young With Crazy Horse
5 Birds Neil Young With Crazy Horse
6 Everybodyʼs Alone Neil Young With Crazy Horse
7 I Believe In You Neil Young With Crazy Horse
8 Sea Of Madness Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
9 Dance Dance Dance Neil Young With Crazy Horse
10 Country Girl Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
11 Helpless Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
12 It Might Have Been Neil Young With Crazy Horse

DISC 5 NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE–LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST (NEW YORK 1970):
1 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
2 Winterlong
3 Down By The River
4 Wonderinʼ
5 Come On Baby Letʼs Go Downtown
6 Cowgirl In The Sand

DISC 6 TOPANGA 3 (1970):
1 Tell Me Why Neil Young
2 After The Gold Rush Neil Young
3 Only Love Can Break Your Heart Neil Young
4 Wonderinʼ Neil Young
5 Donʼt Let It Bring You Down Neil Young
6 Cripple Creek Ferry Neil Young
7 Southern Man Neil Young
8 Till The Morning Comes Neil Young
9 When You Dance, I Can Really Love Neil Young With Crazy Horse
10 Ohio Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
11 Only Love Can Break Your Heart Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
12 Tell Me Why Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
13 Music Is Love David Crosby, Graham Nash & Neil Young
14 See The Sky About To Rain Neil Young

DISC 7 LIVE AT MASSEY HALL (TORONTO 1971):
1 On The Way Home
2 Tell Me Why
3 Old Man
4 Journey Through The Past
5 Helpless
6 Love In Mind
7 A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold (Suite)
8 Cowgirl In The Sand
9 Donʼt Let It Bring You Down
10 Thereʼs A World
11 Bad Fog Of Loneliness
12 The Needle And The Damage Done
13 Ohio
14 See The Sky About To Rain
15 Down By The River
16 Dance Dance Dance
17 I Am A Child

DISC 8 NORTH COUNTRY (1971-1972):
1 Heart Of Gold Neil Young
2 The Needle And The Damage Done Neil Young
3 Bad Fog Of Loneliness Neil Young With The Stray Gators
4 Old Man Neil Young With The Stray Gators
5 Heart Of Gold Neil Young With The Stray Gators
6 Dance Dance Dance Neil Young
7 A Man Needs A Maid Neil Young With The London Symphony Orch.
8 Harvest Neil Young With The Stray Gators
9 Journey Through The Past Neil Young With The Stray Gators
10 Are You Ready For The Country? Neil Young With The Stray Gators
11 Alabama Neil Young With The Stray Gators
12 Words (Between The Lines Of Age) Neil Young With The Stray Gators
13 Soldier Neil Young
14 War Song Neil Young & Graham Nash With The Stray Gators

It is impossible to pinpoint when a new album will become a classic. And while sometimes there are signals, often such a designation comes as a complete surprise. When Neil Young's 1973 live album release Time Fades Away arrived, it was obviously a left-field surprise. It was recorded with the Stray Gators, and featured previously unreleased songs. At a time when the Young's popularity was surging following his highly successful studio album Harvest, the new live album raised questions marks and even Young responded at the time, "Time Fades Away was the worst record I ever made, but as a door of what was happening to me it was a great record." In so many ways, this music is the perfect window on the unpredictable trajectory of one of rock & roll's true pioneers. Time Fades Away 50 will be released on limited edition clear vinyl only this November 3, via Reprise Records. This definitive 9 song iteration of the album contains a bonus track of “Last Trip To Tulsa,” which originally appeared on Archives Vol.1 Box set but here now on vinyl only for the first time.

The 50th anniversary release of Time Fades Away is a true celebration of an era in time that marked music forever. In 1973 Young was writing songs that have lasted to this day, and taking bold changes with the way he presented them in-person. It's a trademark of his that still continues. And with the Stray Gators performing with him -- Jack Nitzsche (keyboards); Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar); Kenny Buttrey (drums), to be replaced by Johnny Barbata; and bassist Tim Drummond. David Crosby and Graham Nash also joined on harmony vocals and acoustic guitar. The real magic of this recording has always been how it was such an adventurous risk to take at a time when so much of the contemporary music then was driven by perfection. Recorded directly from the soundboard to 16-track tape and mixed simultaneously to LP cutting, in some ways Young and the band were traveling new sonic roads. Time Fades Away was recorded directly after the mega-success of Young's album Harvest, and it feels like the blueprint of the twists and turns of a career where the blaster rockets are kicking. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 Time Fades Away
02 Journey Through The Past
03 Yonder Stands The Sinner
04 L.A.
05 Love In Mind
Side B:
01 Don’t Be Denied
02 The Bridge
03 Last Dance
04 The Last Trip To Tulsa (50th Anniversary Bonus Track)

There are certain albums in the extensive Neil Young Archives that take on a unique life of their own. Maybe it's their rarity, or a galvanizing reputation that sets them apart. One of the most anticipated releases in this ongoing musical march is the live collection ODEON BUDOKAN, recorded with Crazy Horse, scheduled for September 1st, release via Reprise Records, Neil Young's home label for over 50 years.

Originally recorded in 1976 almost a world apart at two overseas venues: Hammersmith Odeon in London and Nippon Budokan Hall In Tokyo. The ten-track album includes an electrifying range of songs, from well-known classics to true surprises. Tracks on Side 1 were recorded in London March 31, 1976, and feature Neil Young's solo set on guitar and piano from the first half of the concert. Side 2 tracks were recorded two weeks earlier on March 11, 1976, with Young and Crazy Horse at an early electric apex.

This is the first official vinyl release of the previously unissued ODEON BUDOKAN. It has only been available on Compact Disc as part of Neil Young's ARCHIVES VOLUME II box set.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 The Old Laughing Lady
02 After The Gold Rush
03 Too Far Gone
04 Old Man
05 Stringman
Side B
01 Don't Cry No Tears
02 Cowgirl In The Sand
03 Lotta Love
04 Drive Back
05 Cortez The Killer 

‘Chrome Dreams’, one of Neil Young's most individual and powerful albums, was scheduled to be released in 1977, but as is often the case with Young, things change. And then change again.

With ‘Chrome Dreams’, it has been a long time coming to get to this final version of an album that includes some of rock's most unforgettable songs - and now it is set to be released on August 11 as Neil Young envisioned it. It’s time for ‘Chrome Dreams’ to find its way into the world.

The music included on ‘Chrome Dreams’ is the debut release of the legendary lost 1977 album that features 12 classic Neil Young songs, including four originals. The 1974-1976 studio recordings include two previously unreleased versions, four tracks never before released on vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 Pocahontas
02 Will To Love
03 Star Of Bethlehem
Side B
04 Like A Hurricane
05 Too Far Gone
06 Hold Back The Tears
07 Homegrown
Side C
08 Captain Kennedy
09 Stringman
10 Sedan Delivery
11 Powderfinger
12 Look Out For My Love
Side D
Etching

Neil Young's OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 5 is a stunning collection of four albums that begins with the exciting renaissance that came with the release of FREEDOM in 1989, and continues on the unequalled exploration of collections RAGGED GLORY (1990), WELD (1991) and ARC (1991). In many ways, it is a musical travelogue of how Young saw the future and opened up creative worlds for the use of sound and originality which had not been used before.

The OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 5 is available as a vinyl box set of the original four albums on 9 vinyl LPs and the CD version is now issued on 6 CDs. Like all the reissues in this series, the albums are remastered from the best source available--original analog tape in most cases. For the four albums in the series, this is the first time they have been remastered.

In addition on RAGGED GLORY, the 10-song original album is expanded for this re-issue with 4 rare tracks. “Interstate” and “Don’t Spook The Horse” were both B-sides to singles. “Box Car” and the 12 minute “Born To Run” are both previously unreleased versions

TRACK LISTING

VINYL (9LP SET)
FREEDOM
01 Rockin’ In The Free World (Live Acoustic)
02 Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero Part 1)
03 Don’t Cry
04 Hangin’ On A Limb
05 Eldorado
06 The Ways Of Love
07 Someday
08 On Broadway
09 Wrecking Ball
10 No More
11 Too Far Gone
12 Rockin’ In The Free World (Electric)

RAGGED GLORY – Smell The Horse
01 Country Home
02 White Line
03 Fuckin’ Up
04 Over And Over
05 Love To Burn
06 Farmer John
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Days That Used To Be
09 Love And Only Love
10 Mother Earth (National Anthem)
11 Interstate
12 Don’t Spook The Horse
13 Box Car
14 Born To Run

WELD
01 Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
02 Crime In The City
03 Blowin’ In The Wind
04 Welfare Mothers
05 Love To Burn
06 Cinnamon Girl
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Fuckin’ Up
09 Cortez The Killer
10 Powderfinger
11 Love And Only Love
12 Rockin’ In The Free World
13 Like A Hurricane
14 Farmer John
15 Tonight’s The Night
16 Roll Another Number

ARC
Arc (A Compilation Composition)

CD (6CD SET)
FREEDOM
01 Rockin’ In The Free World (Live Acoustic)
02 Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero Part 1)
03 Don’t Cry
04 Hangin’ On A Limb
05 Eldorado
06 The Ways Of Love
07 Someday
08 On Broadway
09 Wrecking Ball
10 No More
11 Too Far Gone
12 Rockin’ In The Free World (Electric)

RAGGED GLORY – Smell The Horse
01 Country Home
02 White Line
03 Fuckin’ Up
04 Over And Over
05 Love To Burn
06 Farmer John
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Days That Used To Be
09 Love And Only Love
10 Mother Earth (National Anthem)
11 Interstate
12 Don’t Spook The Horse
13 Box Car
14 Born To Run

WELD
01 Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
02 Crime In The City
03 Blowin’ In The Wind
04 Welfare Mothers
05 Love To Burn
06 Cinnamon Girl
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Fuckin’ Up
09 Cortez The Killer
10 Powderfinger
11 Love And Only Love
12 Rockin’ In The Free World
13 Like A Hurricane
14 Farmer John
15 Tonight’s The Night
16 Roll Another Number

ARC
Arc (A Compilation Composition)

High Flyin' is a totally unique double-live album from the summer of 1977 recorded by a storied Northern California aggregation called The Ducks.

It was a band that often made unannounced appearances in their own backyards at clubs like the Back Room, The Crossroads Club, The Catalyst and others, featuring Neil Young (guitar, harmonica and vocals), Bob Mosley (bass and vocals), Jeff Blackburn (guitar and vocals) and Johnny Craviotto (drums & vocals).

In the magical time The Ducks existed, the rumors of their shows took on a word-of-mouth excitement that made those in the small audiences feel like the chosen few and allowed bragging rights for all who were lucky enough to be there. The quartet’s set lists included songs from a wide range of the band members' backgrounds and were often decided on the night of the shows.

This new collection of those nights, as well as two evenings at the nearby Magical Devices studio have been bootlegged for decades, and High Flyin’ is now an official release many fans never thought would happen. It continues the freewheeling spirit of The Ducks themselves and shows how rock & roll surprises remain limitless.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
01. I Am A Dreamer
02. Younger Days
03. Gypsy Wedding
04. Are You Ready For The Country?
05. Hold On Boys
Side 2
01. My My My (Poor Man)
02. I’m Tore Down
03. Hey Now
04. Wide Eyed And Willing
05. Truckin’ Man
Side 3
01. Sail Away
02. Gone Dead Train
03. Silver Wings
Side 4
01. Human Highway
02. Your Love
03. I’m Ready
04. Little Wing
05. Car Tune
Side 5
01. Windward Passage
02. Leaving Us Now
03. Mr. Soul
Side 6
01. Two Riders
02. Honky Tonk Man
03. Sailor Man
04. Silver Wings

Somewhere Under The Rainbow features Neil Young with the Santa Monica Flyers, recorded live at the Rainbow Theatre in London on Nov 5th 1973.

It is a long-cherished show that has been celebrated for its completely spontaneous and high-revved performance featuring Neil Young (vocals, guitar) with the stellar band featuring Nils Lofgren (lead and rhythm guitar, piano, accordion, vocals), Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar, vocals), Billy Talbot (bass, vocals) and Ralph Molina (drums, vocals).

In a night of high-wire performances and semi-unhinged sonics, the concert has taken on a mythic legend in the past 50 years. All the musicians were in a free-form state of mind and swung for the fences on every track. The double-disc album captures a sound and soul that still resonates loudly for its daring, and among Neil Young fans is an achievement that is as unconventional as it is unforgettable. Recording engineer Pete Long's liner notes dive right into the thick of the controversial concert, and help listeners relive a place and time that won't be repeated.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
01 Tonight’s The Night
02 Mellow My Mind
03 World On A String
04 Speakin’ Out
05 Albuquerque
Side 2
01 New Mama
02 Roll Another Number (For The Road)
03 Tired Eyes
04 Tonight’s The Night - Part II
Side 3
01 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
02 Human Highway
03 Helpless
Side 4
01 Don’t Be Denied
02 Cowgirl In The Sand

Neil Young announces the release of a 50th Anniversary Edition of his 1972 album ‘Harvest’. His fourth solo album remains one of the most beloved in his catalogue and is full of with songs which have become all-time classics.

The 50th Anniversary Edition will be released on triple-vinyl and triple-CD, both of which features the original album; a disc of three studio outtakes from the original ‘Harvest’ sessions (‘Bad Loneliness’, ‘Journey Through The Past’ and ‘Dance Dance Dance’); and an unreleased live BBC solo performance.

The box sets are completed by two DVDs which provide a new glimpse into ‘Harvest’: The first is ‘Harvest Time’, an unreleased two-hour film shot during the making of ‘Harvest’, with footage from Young’s ‘Harvest Barn’ sessions in Northern California, recording sessions in Nashville and London. The second is a film of the unreleased solo BBC Concert recorded on February 23rd, 1971.

Also included in the package is a hardbound book which includes never-before-seen photos along with extensive liner notes by photographer Joel Bernstein and a fold-out poster. The vinyl box sets also feature a lithograph print.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Box Set:
2LP/7” Single/2DVD Set

LP1: Harvest
01 Out On The Weekend
02 Harvest
03 A Man Needs A Maid
04 Heart Of Gold
05 Are You Ready For The Country?
06 Old Man
07 There's A World
08 Alabama
09 The Needle And The Damage Done
10 Words (Between The Lines Of Age)

LP2: Neil Young Live In Concert At The BBC, February 1971
01 Out On The Weekend
02 Old Man
03 Journey Through The Past
04 Heart Of Gold
05 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
06 A Man Needs A Maid
07 Love In Mind
08 Dance Dance Dance

7” Single: Harvest Outtakes
01 Bad Fog Of Loneliness
02 Journey Through The Past
03 Dance Dance Dance

DVD1:
Harvest Time (2-Hour Film)
DVD2:
Neil Young Live In Concert At The BBC

CD Box Set:
3CD/2DVD Set

CD1: Harvest
01 Out On The Weekend
02 Harvest
03 A Man Needs A Maid
04 Heart Of Gold
05 Are You Ready For The Country?
06 Old Man
07 There’s A World
08 Alabama
09 The Needle And The Damage Done
10 Words (Between The Lines Of Age)

CD2: Neil Young Live In Concert At The BBC, February 1971
01 Out On The Weekend
02 Old Man
03 Journey Through The Past
04 Heart Of Gold
05 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
06 A Man Needs A Maid
07 Love In Mind
08 Dance Dance Dance

CD3: Harvest Outtakes
01 Bad Fog Of Loneliness
02 Journey Through The Past
03 Dance Dance Dance

DVD1:
Harvest Time (2-Hour Film)
DVD2:
Neil Young Live In Concert At The BBC

18th November sees the release of a brand new album from Neil Young with Crazy Horse entitled ‘World Record’. It is the follow-up to last year’s acclaimed ‘Barn’ record.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: It's impossible to overstate the importance Neil Young has had on the world of music, and here he returns with possibly his most famed collaborator, Crazy Horse for another impeccably put-together selection of well written melodies and skilful musicianship.

TRACK LISTING

1. Love Earth
2. Overhead
3. I Walk With You (Earth Ringtone)
4. This Old Planet (Changing Days)
5. The World (Is In Trouble Now)
6. Break The Chain
7. The Long Day Before
8. Walkin’ On The Road (To The Future)
9. The Wonder Won’t Wait
10. Chevrolet
11. This Old Planet (Reprise)

Standalone release of Neil Young & The Restless EP ‘Eldorado’. Originally only released in Australia and Japan, the EP contained three different mixes of ‘Don’t Cry’, ‘On Broadway’ and ‘Eldorado’ from those that appeared later on Young’s ‘Freedom’ album. It also featured ‘Cocaine Eyes’ and ‘Heavy Love’ which were unreleased recordings.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 Cocaine Eyes
02 Don’t Cry
03 Heavy Love
Side B
01 On Broadway
02 Eldorado

‘Noise & Flowers’ documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young’s lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at the age of 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young approached each show as a celebratory memorial service to honour his late friend. It’s a trek the legendary singer/songwriter describes as “wondrous.”

In the album’s liner notes, Young says, “Playing in his memory [made it] one of the most special tours ever. We hit the road and took his great spirit with us into every song. This music belongs to no one. It’s in the air. Every note was played for music’s great friend, Elliot.”

In paying tribute to the manager who guided Young’s career for over a half-century, ‘Noise & Flowers’ explores all corners of his vast discography. It balances all-timer anthems (‘Mr. Soul’, ‘Helpless’, ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’) with rarely aired ‘70s deep cuts (‘Field of Opportunity’, ‘On the Beach’) and ’90s gems (‘From Hank to Hendrix’, ‘Throw Your Hatred Down’). His frequent backing band since 2015, Promise of the Real effectively bridges the extremes in Young’s sound, infusing his raging rockers and country serenades with their casual brilliance and telepathic intuition.

The companion film (directed by Bernard Shakey and dhlovelife) emphasizes both the intimacy and ecstasy of these performances.

‘Noise & Flowers’ is entry No. PS 21 in the Neil Young Archives Performance Series of live releases – a special addition to a robust, and still-growing catalogue.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 Mr. Soul
02 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
03 Helpless
04 Field Of Opportunity
05 Alabama
Side B
01 Throw Your Hatred Down
02 Rockin’ In The Free World
Side C
01 Comes A Time
02 From Hank To Hendrix
03 On The Beach
04 Are You Ready For The Country
Side D
01 I’ve Been Waiting For You
02 Winterlong
03 Fuckin’ Up

Neil Young announces the release of his near-mythical 2001 studio album, Toast. Recorded at Toast Studios in San Francisco around the turn of the millennium, Toast features Young’s legendary musical collaborators Crazy Horse at a ragged and thundering apex.

For the past two decades, Toast has been whispered about in collectors’ circles in hushed tones, as Young has dropped pieces of information about it here and there, especially as it contains three never-before-released songs.

Last year, in his virtual daily newspaper, The Times Contrarian, Young wrote about the album in-depth. “The music of Toast is about a relationship,” he said. “There is a time in many relationships that go bad, a time long before the breakup, where it dawns on one of the people, maybe both, that it's over. This was that time.”

Aptly, Toast is heavy and distressed, brimming with electrifying tension. Even its sweet-sounding opening track, “Quit,” features the refrain, “Don’t say you love me.” “Standing In The Light of Love” and “Goin’ Home” let the Horse off the tether in fields of overdriven guitar; an out-of-work logger grapples with his faith on the breakneck “Timberline;” and on “Gateway of Love,” Young dreams of a less painful future over a hypnotizing 10 minutes, leading into the somber, brokedown “How Ya Doin’?” The songwriter sums up the album best during its shadowy finale “Boom Boom Boom”: “All I got is a broken heart, and I don’t try to hide it when I play my guitar.”

TRACK LISTING

01 Quit
02 Standing In The Light Of Love
03 Goin’ Home
04 Timberline
05 Gateway Of Love
06 How Ya Doin’?
07 Boom Boom Boom

Neil Young is set to deliver more rare live recordings from his extensive archives with the Neil Young Official Bootleg Series (OBS) which began last autumn with the release of Carnegie Hall 1970 (OBS1).

On May 6th Young will release the next three installments in the bootleg series as follows: Royce Hall, 1971 was recorded January 30 on the UCLA campus, a solo acoustic gig. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1971 – also solo acoustic -- is the last US show of Young’s 1971 solo tour. Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (Live at The Bottom Line), from New York City 1974 is a surprise set. Where analog tape exists in Young’s archive, these concerts have been mixed properly, providing much higher quality recordings than have previously existed – Royce Hall 1971 and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 are from the original analog masters. If no tape exists, the original bootleg has been restored and remastered to bring listeners the best audio experience possible - Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (Live at The Bottom Line), from New York City 1974.

The original bootleg artwork has also been replicated wherever possible, lending each release that treasured collector’s vibe and conjuring the era they were first created in. 

TRACK LISTING

01 Pushed It Over The End
02 Long May You Run
03 Greensleeves
04 Ambulance Blues
05 Helpless
06 Revolution Blues
07 On The Beach
08 Roll Another Number (For The Road)
09 Motion Pictures
10 Pardon My Heart
11 Dance Dance Dance

Neil Young is set to deliver more rare live recordings from his extensive archives with the Neil Young Official Bootleg Series (OBS) which began last autumn with the release of Carnegie Hall 1970 (OBS1).

On May 6th Young will release the next three installments in the bootleg series as follows: Royce Hall, 1971 was recorded January 30 on the UCLA campus, a solo acoustic gig. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1971 – also solo acoustic -- is the last US show of Young’s 1971 solo tour. Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (Live at The Bottom Line), from New York City 1974 is a surprise set. Where analog tape exists in Young’s archive, these concerts have been mixed properly, providing much higher quality recordings than have previously existed – Royce Hall 1971 and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 are from the original analog masters. If no tape exists, the original bootleg has been restored and remastered to bring listeners the best audio experience possible - Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (Live at The Bottom Line), from New York City 1974.

The original bootleg artwork has also been replicated wherever possible, lending each release that treasured collector’s vibe and conjuring the era they were first created in. The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1971 album cover, for example, features the worn and faded ring of an LP.

TRACK LISTING

01 On The Way Home
02 Tell Me Why
03 Old Man
04 Journey Through The Past
05 Cowgirl In The Sand
06 Heart Of Gold
07 A Man Needs A Maid
08 Sugar Mountain
09 Don't Let It Bring You Down
10 Love In Mind
11 The Needle And The Damage Done
12 Ohio
13 See The Sky About To Rain
14 I Am A Child
15 Dance Dance Dance

Neil Young is set to deliver more rare live recordings from his extensive archives with the Neil Young Official Bootleg Series (OBS) which began last autumn with the release of Carnegie Hall 1970 (OBS1).

On May 6th Young will release the next three installments in the bootleg series as follows: Royce Hall, 1971 was recorded January 30 on the UCLA campus, a solo acoustic gig. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1971 – also solo acoustic -- is the last US show of Young’s 1971 solo tour. Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (Live at The Bottom Line), from New York City 1974 is a surprise set. Where analog tape exists in Young’s archive, these concerts have been mixed properly, providing much higher quality recordings than have previously existed – Royce Hall 1971 and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 are from the original analog masters. If no tape exists, the original bootleg has been restored and remastered to bring listeners the best audio experience possible - Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (Live at The Bottom Line), from New York City 1974.

The original bootleg artwork has also been replicated wherever possible, lending each release that treasured collector’s vibe and conjuring the era they were first created in. 

Neil Young announces the release of the fourth installment in his Official Release Series (ORS): a box set that includes his classic ‘80s records Hawks & Doves, Re•ac•tor, and This Note’s for You, as well as his Eldorado EP, previously released only in Japan and Australia. Both vinyl and CD box sets will be available for pre-order today and out on April 29th.

The ORS Vol 4 collects an eclectic set of decade-spanning sounds. Hawks & Doves (1980) revisits his folk roots and explores some of his most country-leaning offerings; the blistering Re•ac•tor (1981) showcases a stomping set of heavy, overdriven rock with Crazy Horse; and This Note’s for You (1988) casts Young as a big band leader, belting out intricately arranged blues. The Eldorado EP (1989) is full of feral distortion and earthy crunch featuring Young backed by The Restless (Chad Cromwell and Rick Rosas). It includes two thundering tracks — “Cocaine Eyes” and “Heavy Love”— not available on any other album.

ORS Vol 4 collects a large swath of his diverse and compelling ‘80s work, testifying to the legendary songwriter’s gift for sonic shape-shifting.

TRACK LISTING

LP1
Hawks & Doves:
01 Little Wing
02 The Old Homestead
03 Lost In Space
04 Captain Kennedy
05 Stayin’ Power
06 Coastline
07 Union Man
08 Comin’ Apart At Every Nail
09 Hawks & Doves

LP2
Re•ac•tor
01 Opera Star
02 Surfer Joe And Moe The Sleaze
03 T-Bone
04 Get Back On It
05 Southern Pacific
06 Motor City
07 Rapid Transit
08 Shots

LP3
This Note’s For You
01 Ten Men Workin’
02 This Note’s For You
03 Coupe De Ville
04 Life In The City
05 Twilight
06 Married Man
07 Sunny Inside
08 Can’t Believe Your Lyin’
09 Hey Hey
10 One Thing

LP4
Eldorado
01 Cocaine Eyes
02 Don’t Cry
03 Heavy Love
04 On Broadway
05 Eldorado

Neil Young’s 41st album and his 7th project since lockdown began. It was recorded with his longtime backing band Crazy Horse in ‘a restored off-grd 19th-century barn high up in the Rockies’.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are few more legendary pairings in the musical world than Neil Young & Crazy Horse (not *that* Krazy Horse of Manchester open mic fame), and their latest has all of the appeal of Young's legendarily vast discography, showing that there really is no end to his musical talents. Another wonderfully written LP from Young & co.

TRACK LISTING

01 Song Of The Seasons
02 Heading West
03 Change Ain’t Never Gonna Come
04 Canerican
05 Shape Of You
06 They Might Be Lost
07 Today’s People
08 Tumblin’ Through The Years
09 Welcome Back
10 Don’t Forget Love

Young has selected this concert he played at New York’s Carnegie Hall on December 4th, 1970 as the inaugural release from his Official Bootleg series.

The show rounded off a seminal year for Young who had released the ‘After The Gold Rush’ record just 3 months earlier in September which followed on from the ‘Déjà Vu’ album he recorded as part of Crosby, Still, Nash & Young in March of the same year.

This show is a never before heard recording with Young playing solo on vocals, acoustic guitar, piano and harmonica. Young played two solo acoustic shows at Carnegie Hall that week. “Listening to existing bootlegs, it seems that all the bootleggers got the second Carnegie Hall show,” Young writes on the Neil Young Archives. “There was one at 8:00 pm and one at midnight [about 27 hours later]. No one got that first one — the first time I walked onstage at Carnegie Hall, blowing my own 25-year-old mind.”

Change happens fast. At Carnegie Hall, I hear myself doing a new song, one about my ranch I had just moved to – ‘Old Man.’ Time flies.

TRACK LISTING

2LP
Side A
01 Down By The River
02 Cinnamon Girl
03 I Am A Child
04 Expecting To Fly
05 The Loner
06 Wonderin’

Side B
01 Helpless
02 Southern Man
03 Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
04 Sugar Mountain

Side C
01 On The Way Home
02 Tell Me Why
03 Only Love Can Break Your Heart
04 Old Man
05 After The Gold Rush
06 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong

Side D
01 Cowgirl In The Sand
02 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
03 Birds
04 Bad Fog Of Loneliness
05 Ohio
06 See The Sky About To Rain
07 Dance Dance Dance

2CD
Disc 1
01 Down By The River
02 Cinnamon Girl
03 I Am A Child
04 Expecting To Fly
05 The Loner
06 Wonderin’
07 Helpless
08 Southern Man
09 Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
10 Sugar Mountain

Disc 2
11 On The Way Home
12 Tell Me Why
13 Only Love Can Break Your Heart
14 Old Man
15 After The Gold Rush
16 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
17 Cowgirl In The Sand
18 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
19 Birds
20 Bad Fog Of Loneliness
21 Ohio
22 See The Sky About To Rain
23 Dance Dance Dance

Just two months after the release of his seminal album After The Gold Rush, Neil Young played a solo show at The Shakespeare Theater, Stratford, CT on January 22 1971. The show was filmed and recorded, and the concert shown on German TV later in 1971.

In 2020, while Neil and his team were reviewing his Archive for future projects, Neil re-visited the 16mm film and audio recording of this show that had been preserved in the Archive for almost 50 years. Piecing together the tapes and footage, Neil realized that he had the full concert – the film of which is the earliest live footage of Neil performing that is known to exist.

Neil has written on NYA that this show is “superior to our beloved “Massey Hall”. A more calm performance, without the celebratory atmosphere of Massey Hall, captured live on 16mm. “Young Shakespeare” is a very special event. To my fans, I say this is the best ever.”

As an insight into Neil’s prolific song writing at the time, the concert features two songs from the recently released After The Gold Rush but four songs from the classic Harvest album that was still over a year away from being released. The wonderful set list also includes acoustic renditions of favorites such as “Ohio”, “Cowgirl In the Sand”, “Helpless”, “Down By The River” and “Sugar Mountain”.

The ancient analog tapes have been lovingly restored – resulting in (as Neil says on NYA) “one of the most pure sounding acoustic performances we have in the Archive”.

Young Shakespeare is being released almost exactly 50 years after the original performance.

Originally released in 1970 and still seen as one of Neil Young’s greatest albums, After The Gold Rush celebrates 50 years since its release with this special edition.

Featuring timeless classic Neil Young songs such as Southern Man and Only Love Can Break Your Heart, this new edition also includes a version of the track Wonderin’, originally written around the time of After The Gold Rush, which only previously appears on the Archives boxset plus a previously unreleased outtake from the recording sessions for that track.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Box Set Tracklisting:
180g Vinyl LP
Side A
01 Tell Me Why
02 After The Gold Rush
03 Only Love Can Break Your Heart
04 Southern Man
05 Till The Morning Comes
Side B
01 Oh Lonesome Me
02 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
03 Birds
04 When You Dance, I Can Really Love
05 I Believe In You
06 Cripple Creek Ferry

7” Single
Side A
01 Wonderin’
Side B
02 Wonderin’ (Outtakes)

CD Tracklisting:
01 Tell Me Why
02 After The Gold Rush
03 Only Love Can Break Your Heart
04 Southern Man
05 Till The Morning Comes
06 Oh Lonesome Me
07 Don’t Let It Bring You Down
08 Birds
09 When You Dance, I Can Really Love
10 I Believe In You
11 Cripple Creek Ferry
12. Wonderin’
13. Wonderin’ (Outtakes)

Recorded on November 13th 1990 in Santa Cruz, CA, where the band were rehearsing for their upcoming Weld tour, Neil Young and Crazy Horse played a club show at The Catalyst which is now released here for the first time.

The show comprised three different sets along with a 12 minute encore of Cortez The Killer and all 3 sets including that encore are brought together here in over 2 hours of music.

Said to be one of the great live shows that Neil Young and Crazy Horse performed, the album includes live versions of songs from their Ragged Glory album, released just prior, along with classics from across their catalogue.

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Deluxe Box Set
4LP/2CD/DVD IN FOIL NUMBERED BOX
4LP:
Side A:
01 Country Home
02 Surfer Joe And Moe The Sleaze
Side B:
01 Love To Burn
02 Days That Used To Be
03 Bite The Bullet
Side C:
01 Cinnamon Girl
02 Farmer John
03 Over And Over
Side D:
01 Danger Bird
02 Don’t Cry No Tears
03 Sedan Delivery
Side E:
01 Roll Another Number For The Road
02 Fuckin’ Up
03 T-Bone
Side F:
01 Homegrown
02 Mansion On The Hill
Side G:
01 Like A Hurricane
02 Love And Only Love
Side H:
01 Cortez The Killer

2CD:
Tracklist As Vinyl Across Two CDs
CD1 Tracks 1 – 11
CD2 Tracks 12 - 19

DVD:
DVD Of The Concert

Return to Greendale is the next installment in Neil Young’s Performance Series and features a concert (audio & on film) from the historic and unique 2003 tour supporting the release of the Neil Young with Crazy Horse album Greendale.

On the 2003 tour, Neil Young and Crazy Horse were joined on stage by a large cast of singers and actors to perform the story Neil Young wrote about the small town of Greendale and how a dramatic event affects the people living there. The ten songs from the powerful original album are performed in sequence, with the cast speaking the sung words - adding to the intensity of the performance.

The live album Return to Greendale is released on November 6 in several formats: Double vinyl, a 2 CD set, and a limited-edition deluxe box set that includes a Blu-ray of the full concert, a DVD of Inside Greendale (the making of the album documentary), 2 LPs and 2 CDs.

The film of the ambitious live show captures the vibrancy of Neil Young and Crazy Horse on stage in a unique multi-media experience. It seamlessly blends together the live performance, the actors portraying each song, with the story occasionally enhanced by scenes from the Greendale - The Movie.

Both the live concert film and the Inside Greendale documentary are directed by Bernard Shakey and produced by L. A. Johnson

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 Falling From Above (Live)
02 Double E (Live)
03 Devil’s Sidewalk (Live)

Side B
04 Leave The Driving (Live)
05 Carmichael (Live)
06 Bandit (Live)

Side C
07 Grandpa’s Interview (Live)
08 Bringin’ Down Dinner (Live)

Side D
09 Sun Green (Live)
10 Be The Rain (Live)

'The Times' is a moving and topical solo acoustic performance, a unique collection of songs, recorded by Neil Young at home during lockdown as part of the raw and personal, 'FIRESIDE SESSIONS' series.

The songs include his updated 'Lookin' For A Leader - 2020,' ‘Alabama’ from the seminal ‘Harvest’ album, the Young penned CSN&Y classic ‘Ohio’, the brilliant ‘Southern Man’ from the ‘After The Gold Rush’ album, and Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changin' closing with 'Little Wing' from the latest Reprise release, 'Homegrown'.

TRACK LISTING

Alabama
Campaigner
Ohio
The Times They Are A-changin’
Lookin’ For A Leader
Southern Man
Little Wing

Neil Young has said this album is “the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time”, which perfectly describes the warm, semi-acoustic feel of these twelve songs. Originally intended to be released in 1975, the album has remained unreleased since then, and has a legendary status among Neil’s fans.

Seven of the songs are previously unreleased on any album, and different versions of the other five songs would appear on later Neil Young albums. Neil plays guitar, piano and harmonica on the album, and is accompanied by a stellar group of musicians including Levon Helm, Ben Keith, Karl T Himmel, Tim Drummond, Emmylou Harris and Robbie Robertson.

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Side A:
Separate Ways 3:33
Try 2:49
Mexico 1:40
Love Is A Rose 2:16
Homegrown 2:47
Florida 2:58
Kansas 2:13

Side B:
We Don’t Smoke It 4:50
White Line 3:14
Vacancy 3:59
Little Wing 2:08
Star Of Bethlehem 2:45

"Colorado" is the first new Neil Young with Crazy Horse album since 2012's "Psychedelic Pill". The album will be released on October 25th and features 10 new Neil Young compositions. It includes several songs that Neil has been playing live in the past few months (eg: "Rainbow of Colors", "Green Is Blue" and "Milky Way"), and the epic 13+ minute track "She Showed Me Love".

The vinyl version of the album comes with a bonus 7" single, featuring an album outtake "Truth Kills". The 7” also includes a live, solo version of "Rainbow of Colors" from Portland, OR, on May 17, 2019 - the first time Neil ever performed this song live.

This incarnation of Crazy Horse is Neil Young on vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica and vibes, Billy Talbot on bass, Ralph Molina on drums and features the return of Nils Lofgren on guitar and piano, almost 50 years since he last appeared on a Crazy Horse album (1971). The album is produced by Neil Young and John Hanlon and was recorded in Colorado in April & May 2019.

TRACK LISTING

01 Think Of Me - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
02 She Showed Me Love - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
03 Olden Days - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
04 Help Me Lose My Mind - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
05 Green Is Blue - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
06 Shut It Down - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse 07 Milky Way - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
08 Eternity - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
09 Rainbow Of Colors - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
10 I Do - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse

Neil Young releases TUSCALOOSA, from his ongoing live archival series. The previously unreleased, 11-track recording features Neil Young with The Stray Gators recorded live at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa on February 5th,1973. 

During 1971 – 1973, between solo shows and dates with Crazy Horse, Young would switch up his sound to suit the material he would focus on when touring with The Stray Gators. Comprised of Tim Drummond (bass), Kenny Buttrey (drums), Jack Nitzsche (piano) and Ben Keith (steel guitar) this lineup, most notably, would go onto record Harvest and Times Fades Away. Tuscaloosa features live versions of songs from Young’s self-titled 1969 debut (“Here We Are In The Years”) plus classic songs from his two most commercially successful album of his early career, After The Goldrush (1970) and Harvest (1972).

The album also contains a stunning version of the title track from the live album Time Fades Away that would not surface until later in 1973, as well as songs from the seminal classic Tonight’s The Night that would eventually be released in 1975.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Yet another officially licensed and legendary set from one of the greatest musicians of the 20th (and 21st) century here. As an ongoing archival of Young's legendary live show, Tuscaloosa displays a man at the peak of his powers, wowing an appreciative audience. What's not to love?

Neil Young announced his plan to release Songs for Judy, a live album drawn from his November 1976 U.S. tour. The 22-song LP includes solo acoustic performances of all-time classics like “Heart of Gold,” “After the Gold Rush” and “The Needle and the Damage Done,” along with a number of rarer selections, including one song, “No One Seems to Know,” that has not appeared on any previous official release.

Young spent the majority of 1976 on the road with Crazy Horse or on the ill-fated Stills-Young Band tour, which he famously dropped out of midway through that summer. He also found time to make Hitchhiker, the lost solo acoustic studio album that he recorded in August 1976 — three months before the shows documented on Songs for Judy — but kept in the vault until last fall. At the November 1976 shows featured on Songs for Judy, Young performed a solo acoustic opening set before returning to the stage for a harder-rocking performance with Crazy Horse. These shows have been widely praised and discussed by Young fans for years, but this is their first official release.

TRACK LISTING

“Songs For Judy Intro” – Atlanta, GA – Nov 24 (late Show)
“Too Far Gone” – Boulder, Colorado – Nov 06
“No One Seems To Know” – Boulder, Colorado – Nov 07
“Heart Of Gold” – Fort Worth, Texas – Nov 10
“White Line” – Fort Worth, Texas – Nov 10
“Love Is A Rose” – Houston – Nov 11
“After The Gold Rush” – Houston – Nov 11
“Human Highway” – Madison, Wisconsin – Nov 14
“Tell Me Why” – Chicago – Nov 15 (late Show)
“Mr. Soul” – New York – Nov 20 (early Show)
“Mellow My Mind” – New York – Nov 20 (early Show)
“Give Me Strength” – New York – Nov 20 (late Show)
“A Man Needs A Maid” – New York – Nov 20 (late Show)
“Roll Another Number” – Boston – Nov 22 (late Show)
“Journey Through The Past” – Boston – Nov 22 (late Show)
“Harvest” – Boston – Nov 22 (late Show)
“Campaigner” – Boston – Nov 22 (late Show)
“Old Laughing Lady” – Atlanta – Nov 24 (early Show)
“The Losing End” – Atlanta – Nov 24 (late Show)
“Here We Are In The Years” – Atlanta – Nov 24 (late Show)
“The Needle And The Damage Done” – Atlanta – Nov 24 (early Show)
“Pocahontas” – Atlanta – Nov 24 (late Show)
“Sugar Mountain” – Atlanta – Nov 24 (late Show)

When Neil Young entered Shangri La Studio with the band Promise Of The Real a few months ago, there were a lot of images and feelings careening around his soul. The country was heading in a direction Young had never seen, even though up until then he thought he'd seen it all. But something different was happening, and it had gotten inside his music. "I'm a Canadian by the way and I love the USA," he sings on the first song "Already Great." The ethos of The Visitor can be summed up in the refrain of “Already Great” where Young insists, “Already great, you’re already great. You’re the promise land, the helping hand. No wall. No hate. No fascist USA. WHOSE STREET? OUR STREET.” From those words, Neil Young was ready to take a musical journey on his new album The Visitor like he had never taken before. It was one where he'd even surprise himself, always the mark of a creative leap. By the end of the recording sessions, he knew he'd made his most diverse album going all the way back to Harvest in 1972, when America was also in the throes of becoming unhinged. Neil Young didn't blink then, and he is not blinking now.

Neil Young will open his archive and release Hitchhiker, an unreleased new studio album. The 10-track acoustic solo album was recorded in Malibu, CA at Indigo Studio in 1976. The original session was produced by Young’s long-time studio collaborator David Briggs.

Recorded between Zuma and American Stars and Bars as a solo album in a single session, the resultant performances are truly breathtaking and passionate. The simplicity of a single voice and guitar captured here is as pure and powerful as it gets, with only Young, Briggs and actor Dean Stockwell in the room at the time of recording. A few of the songs would not appear on vinyl until years later. Some have never been heard, included in the original sessions for Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Dume, another unreleased record of original sessions that yielded the classic album, Zuma. When the Hitchhiker album was recorded, none of the included songs had ever been released and many of the performances of the songs were the first ever. This is truly an album of original performances

"Rust Never Sleeps, its aphoristic title drawn from an intended advertising slogan, was an album of new songs, some of them recorded on Neil Young's 1978 concert tour. His strongest collection since Tonight's the Night, its obvious antecedent was Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, and, as Dylan did, Young divided his record into acoustic and electric sides while filling his songs with wildly imaginative imagery. The leadoff track, "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (repeated in an electric version at album's end as "Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black]" with slightly altered lyrics), is the most concise and knowing description of the entertainment industry ever written; it was followed by "Thrasher," which describes Young's parallel artistic quest in an extended metaphor that also reflected the album's overall theme -- the inevitability of deterioration and the challenge of overcoming it. Young then spent the rest of the album demonstrating that his chief weapons against rusting were his imagination and his daring, creating an archetypal album that encapsulated his many styles on a single disc with great songs -- in particular the remarkable "Powderfinger" -- unlike any he had written before." All Music.

"In retrospect, Live Rust, comes off as an excellent Neil Young live album and career summary, starting with the early song "Sugar Mountain" and running through then-new songs like "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" and "Powderfinger." Young is effective in both his acoustic folksinger and hard-rocking Crazy Horse bandleader modes. The various distractions of the concert itself and the film, such as the pretentious props and cowled roadies, are absent, and what's left is a terrific Neil Young concert recording." All Music.

Neil Young + Promise of the Real have joined forces and will release a new studio album, entitled The Monsanto Years, via Reprise Records. For this guitar-centric, full steam-ahead and highly-charged ecologically / environmentally-focused rock album, Young is joined by Promise of the Real, an LA-based rock band fronted by Lukas Nelson (vocals/guitar), along with Micah Nelson (guitar, vocals), Anthony Logerfo (drums), Corey McCormick (bass) and Tato Melgar (percussion). They have performed with their father, Willie Nelson and Young on previous occasions. For the first time, they have recorded and will now tour together under the banner of the Rebel Content Tour.

TRACK LISTING

1. A New Day For Love
2. Wolf Moon
3. People Want To Hear About Love
4. Big Box
5. A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop
6. Workin' Man
7. Rules Of Change
8. Monsanto Years
9. If I Don't Know

‘Who’s Gonna Stand Up?’ was originally performed at Crazy Horse shows in the UK this summer and more recently, as part of Young’s solo acoustic set at Farm Aid. The track makes a resounding plea to end dependence of fossil fuels in hopes of protecting the Earth’s fragile eco-systems for future generations.

Neil Young took a different approach with this record, first recording the songs on his own in a solo-setting, then creating compelling versions of the songs in a new light with an orchestra and big band, resulting in a deeply-personal emotional listening experience throughout the new record.

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Side A: Who’s Gonna Stand Up - Solo Version + Orchestra Version
Side B: Who’s Gonna Stand Up - Live Version (feat. Crazy Horse) + Children’s Version

"Having apparently exorcised his demons by releasing the cathartic Tonight's the Night, Neil Young returned to his commercial strengths with Zuma (named after Zuma Beach in Los Angeles, where he now owned a house). Seven of the album's nine songs were recorded with the reunited Crazy Horse, in which rhythm guitarist Frank Sampedro had replaced the late Danny Whitten, but there were also nods to other popular Young styles in "Pardon My Heart," an acoustic song that would have fit on Harvest, his most popular album, and "Through My Sails," retrieved from one of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's abortive recording sessions. Young had abandoned the ragged, first-take approach of his previous three albums, but Crazy Horse would never be a polished act, and the music had a lively sound well-suited to the songs, which were some of the most melodic, pop-oriented tunes Young had crafted in years, though they were played with an electric-guitar-drenched rock intensity. The overall theme concerned romantic conflict, with lyrics that lamented lost love and sometimes longed for a return ("Pardon My Heart" even found Young singing, "I don't believe this song"), though the overall conclusion, notably in such catchy songs as "Don't Cry No Tears" and "Lookin' for a Love," was to move on to the next relationship. But the album's standout track (apparently the only holdover from an early intention to present songs with historical subjects) was the seven-and-a-half-minute epic "Cortez the Killer," a commentary on the Spanish conqueror of Latin America that served as a platform for Young's most extensive guitar soloing since his work on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere." - AllMusic.

Recognised as one of Young's (and hence one of rock & roll's) finest albums, "Harvest" put the singer on the mainstream map with the mega-hit "Heart of Gold", which defined a soft folk-rock style frequently revisited by lesser artists throughout the 1970s. It also features some of his darker compositions, like the entropy-obsessed "Old Man" and the junkie eulogy, "The Needle and the Damage Done", one of Young's most haunting and compelling songs. Deceptively laid-back-sounding country-rock plaints like "Out On The Weekend" and the title cut caress the ear unassumingly, pulling you into the more ominous subtext that is present even in the rollicking "Are You Ready For The Country". As always, Young has an ear for contrasts, laying down heavy rock ("Alabama") beside his balladry, and even employing the London Symphony Orchestra on the excellent confessional "A Man Needs A Maid". Due to back troubles, Young recorded much of this material while wearing a brace, a fact that seems audible in the tension and unease that underlies the friendly, acoustic surface of this superb release.

TRACK LISTING

1. Out On The Weekend
2. Harvest
3. A Man Needs A Maid
4. Heart Of Gold
5. Are You Ready For The Country?
6. Old Man
7. There's A World
8. Alabama
9. The Needle And The Damage Done
10. Words (Between The Lines Of Age)

Neil Young's second album yielded several of his most enduring hits (including the title tune, "Cowgirl In The Sand," "Cinnamon Girl," and "Down By The River") and firmly established him as a solo artist of the first rank. Though it's impossible to narrow the catalogue of Young and Crazy Horse down to one representative document, this is about as close as you're likely to get. This was Young's first collaboration with the Horse, and it's still one of that group's defining recorded moments. As in much of Young's subsequent work, the feeling of despair moves unabated through the album, which runs the emotional gamut from laconically desperate to psychotically desperate. Despite the gloom, the heavy electric riffing on "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl In the Sand" -two surrealistic odes to an idealized muse - is cathartic and invigorating, easily as riveting as the guitar onslaught of anyone from the Stooges to the Velvet Underground. Young's rootsy, acoustic side comes to the fore on "Round & Round" and "Running Dry". The homespun quality of these songs doesn't leaven the consuming sense of dread that permeates this album, though. Strangely, this expression of angst and emotional disorder became one of Young's most lastingly popular albums, and "Down By The River", "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl In The Sand" quickly turned into FM staples.

Tracklisting
1. Cinnamon Girl
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3. Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
4. Down By The River
5. The Losing End (When You're On)
6. Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
7. Cowgirl In The Sand

"Fork In The Road" is the raw, unpolished studio follow-up to Neil Young's eclectic 2007 release "Chrome Dreams II". Here the Canadian folk-rock pioneer returns to the production values of 2006's "Living With War" - this time presenting a batch of car themed songs that often allude to the state of the economy. While much of the material here is delivered at a relentless pace, the pedal-steel fuelled ballad "Light A Candle" is one of the album's finer moments.

Recorded over two nights in November 1968 at The Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the "Sugar Mountain" album documents the launch of Neil Young's career as a solo artist following his departure from Buffalo Springfield just six months earlier. Captured on a TEAC two track tape recorder, the album offers a glimpse into the development of a legendary artist. The album includes songs that were written during his Buffalo Springfield tenure as well as newly written material that would appear on future solo albums. Included in the performance are several moments of witty, engaging banter that are highlighted in this album release. The Canterbury House shows were considered an experiment to see how Neil Young's solo performances would be received by an audience who knew him as part of the Buffalo Springfield band dynamic. The experience erased all doubts and set the stage from which his solo career was launched.

The 1971 Concert is the second album in the performance series. On January 19, 1971, Neil Young performed at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada. In many ways, this was a major homecoming event. He had left Canada in 1966, soon becoming a member of Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles, then recording his self-titled debut solo album in 1968. That was followed by "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" with Crazy Horse, then Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Déjà vu" in 1970 and his best-selling album "After The Gold Rush." By the time Young came back to Canada for the Massey Hall concert, he had become one of the most exciting and successful singer-songwriters in rock. Neil Young was performing solo that evening in Toronto, playing many of his well-known songs like "Down by the River," "Ohio" and "I Am a Child." But he also included several new originals that would be featured on his next new album, "Harvest," which had not been released yet, like "Old Man," "The Needle And The Damage Done" and "Heart of Gold". 'This is the album that should have come out between "After The Gold Rush" and "Harvest",' Young says now. 'David Briggs, my producer, was adamant that this should be the record, but I was very excited about the takes we got on "Harvest" and wanted "Harvest" out. David disagreed. As I listen to this today, I can see why'.

The first release from Neil Young's long awaited Archive Performance series is here with "Live At The Fillmore East". In 2006, Neil Young delivered another hit album, "Living With War", and toured with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Thirty-six years earlier, in 1970, Young toured with CSN&Y and released his platinum album "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere", after which he performed a series of shows at New York City's then-new Fillmore East with his band Crazy Horse. That concert finally makes its official debut in the annals of rock history with "Live At The Fillmore East", and the circle is unbroken for one of rock's greatest singer-songwriters.

Already hailed as on a par with legendary albums such as "Harvest" and "Harvest Moon", "Prairie Wind" features contributions from keyboardist Spooner Oldham, pedal-steel guitarist Ben Keith, drummer Chad Cromwell, percussionist Karl Himmel, bassist Rick Rosas and vocalist Emmylou Harris, along with the Fisk University Jubilee Singers and other guests.

Young's mighty guitar on two epic compositions, "She's A Healer" and "Goin' Home" are the main highlights on this new set of eleven songs from this living legend.

Starting this live set is an immense 18 minute version of "Cowgirl in the Sand" and it concludes with an 8 minute vesion of "All Along the Watchtower". This is Young at his best, huge guitar lines and impassioned vocals from a unique talent.