NEIL YOUNG To Release 'Live At The Cellar Door'

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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. Of the many unique gems found on Live At The Cellar Door, a rare solo version of "Cinnamon Girl" performed on piano rather than guitar is a particular treasure for Neil fans (the full band version appears on Young's 1969 second solo album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere).

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) 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 spectacular set.

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

Side Two:
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

 

Excellent. I like these APS releases.

Thanks for posting.

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Hell yeah, this sounds great!

 

Any word on whether it will be available to download for those who bought the Blu Ray Archives?

 

Yummy!

 

I'm in!

 

This is all that was in the Press Release that I just got this am.

 

I'm glad we can always count on metal-rules.com to bring us news of our favorite Viking black metal artists, such as Neil Young.

 

So no CD+DVD version?

 

I think it will also be available on the Pono service in the year 2023

 

Why does Neil continue to ignore anything post-Harvest. C'mon already, you know what we want!

 

I shouldn't complain.... but..... this era is already well documented. why not something from the 70s?

/complaining.

edit: hahaha. disc 2.5. does that mean that this is essentially the second half of the abandoned 1971 live album? was there a tentative track list for that?

 

That's a nice set list with the lone exception of Cinnamon Girl which I've heard enough of for the next 20 years.

 

We have few musical boundaries. Hahaaa

 

Bring it on!

 

Since it's pre-1972, we can count on it not being on the next Archives volume...right?

 

Funny you should say that, Cinnamon Girl performed on piano is the only reason other than being a sad fanboy for me picking this up. Riverboat and Massey Hall have this era well covered for solo performances.

They really do need to move on to the 73-80 period before we all croak it.
Still let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, good to see the Archives project is still ongoing.

 

Isn't there a recording of Neil Young and Graham Nash acoustic concert in some small club in New York in 1970 around CSNY series of appereances at Fillmore East?

 

This show should have been included in Vol. 1, right? I guess Neil could throw it in Vol. 2 as a bonus. Well, at least it's being released.

 

I'm in as always. If it's NY I will buy. That said I do wish it was a full band live set we have a lot of live acoustic shows already. Either way I will enjoy it I am sure.

 

I'm in as well - Neil Young is one of a short list of artists that equals automatic purchase for me. Fall/Winter is the perfect time for a warm, acoustic Neil Young performance.

 

Exactly what I was thinking, but it's a... helpless thought to keep having after all these years waiting...

 

I gotta say, I'm done with this era of acoustic solo shows. It's not like the Grateful Dead, where you can delve into widely varying performances of the same songs and find all kinds of fascinating variations and improvisational singularities. Releases like Massey Hall have brilliant performances and great sound, but enough already. Speaking only for myself, of course.

I'll take Archives Vol. 2, please. Zuma-era live NY and Crazy Horse, please. Live shows from the Psychedelic Pill tour, please. Etc.

 

Looks good to me.

 

Count me in for the vinyl. There's enough variation on this to make me want