Neil Young will release Live At The Cellar Door, the latest in his
Archives Performance Series, on November 26th on Reprise Records. The
album collects recordings made during Young's intimate six-show solo
stand at The Cellar Door in Washington D.C. between November 30th and
December 2nd, 1970, a few months after Reprise released his classic
third solo album After The Gold Rush in August.
The album, which features Young performing on acoustic guitar and piano,
includes tracks that are interesting for several reasons, such as
stunning live versions of songs that appeared on After The Gold Rush
("Tell Me Why," "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," "Birds," "Don't Let It
Bring You Down" and the title track) and solo performances of the
Buffalo Springfield songs "Expecting To Fly" (from their 1967 second
album Buffalo Springfield Again), "I Am A Child" (from their third and
final album Last Time Around and Young's 1977 Decade compilation), and
"Flying On The Ground Is Wrong," from their 1966 self-titled debut.
In addition, Live At The Cellar Door features early, raw performances of
songs that wouldn't appear until subsequent Young albums, including the
rarity "Bad Fog Of Loneliness" (which appears on Live At Massey Hall
'71 - released in 2007-but was previously unreleased until the studio
band version was included on Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972), "Old Man"
(released two years later on 1972's Harvest album), a rare solo
performance of "Cinnamon Girl" on piano (the full band version appears
on Young's 1969 second solo album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere), and
"Down By The River," also from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
Live At The Cellar Door was recorded by Henry Lewy and produced by Young.
As with Young's previous releases in the Archives series, Live At The
Cellar Door will be released digitally, on CD, and on 180-gram vinyl
(mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and pressed at
Pallas in Germany).
The track-listing for Live At The Cellar Door is as follows:
Side One:
Tell Me Why
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
After The Gold Rush
Expecting To Fly
Bad Fog Of Loneliness
Old Man
Birds
Tell Me Why
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
After The Gold Rush
Expecting To Fly
Bad Fog Of Loneliness
Old Man
Birds
Side One:
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
See The Sky About To Rain
Cinnamon Girl
I Am A Child
Down By The River
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
See The Sky About To Rain
Cinnamon Girl
I Am A Child
Down By The River
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
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