Neil Young Announces 'Live At The Cellar Door' Album
Friday, 25 October 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
Neil Young will release ‘Live At The Cellar Door’, the latest in his Archives Performance Series, on December 9 on Reprise Records.
The album collects recordings made during Young’s intimate six show solo stand at The Cellar Door in Washington DC between November 30 and December 2, 1970, a few months after Reprise released his classic third solo album ‘After The Gold Rush’. Of the many unique gems found on ‘Live At The Cellar Door’ is a rare version of Cinnamon Girl performed on piano rather than guitar.
The album includes tracks that are interesting for several reasons, such as 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’) and Old Man (released two years later on 1972’s 'Harvest' album). Down By The River, also from ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’, rounds out the set.
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 BernieGrundman Mastering and pressed at Pallas in Germany).
'Live At The Cellar Door' tracklisting is as follows:
1. Tell Me Why 2. Only Love Can Break Your Heart 3. After The Gold Rush 4. Expecting To Fly 5. Bad Fog Of Loneliness
6. Old Man 7. Birds 8. Don’t Let It Bring You Down 9. See The Sky About To Rain 10. Cinnamon Girl 11. I Am A Child 12. Down By The River 13. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
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