Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

the tracklist of the chrome dreams that i downloaded (it's on my ipod, but i lost a bunch of computer files so i dont know if i have it anywhere else) is:

pocahontas (different than the rust never sleeps vers)
will to love (the vers from american stars n bars)
star of bethlehem (ditto)
too far gone (differnt, far superior vers to the one on freedom)
hold back the tears (stars n bars)
homegrown (from stars n bars, though was this supposed to be the title track from the unreleased homegrown album?)
captain kennedy
stringman

stringman was only formally released in a live version from Unplugged right?

yeah i believe so.
this is the supposed memo, which certainly looks authentic
http://29.media.tumblr.com/BHtcu8LoLljo9ttnQV4NYizro1_400.jpg

captain kennedy sounds like the hawks & doves version to me, so maybe it was a leftover or this is just an assemblage made by a bootlegger?

yeah it's the same version on hawks n doves i believe.

oops i left some off here's the tracklist:

pocahontas (different than the rust never sleeps vers)
will to love (the vers from american stars n bars)
star of bethlehem (ditto)
too far gone (differnt, far superior vers to the one on freedom)
hold back the tears (stars n bars)
homegrown (from stars n bars, though was this supposed to be the title track from the unreleased homegrown album?)
captain kennedy
stringman
sedan delivery (different, slower versions, but similar to the rust never sleeps version)
powderfinger (totally different acoustic version)
look out for my love (sounds identical to the comes a time version to me)
like a hurricane (stars and bars version)

either way it's a hell of a lot better of an album than american stars and bars and lot of these songs i think flow together better in this form even the ones that were released otherwise

the version of Too Far Gone is a real gem, so much better than the freedom one

yeah who knows? when neil puts it out, it'll probably have none of those songs.

haha yeah no shit

reading shakey again made me so curious about the briggs version of tonights the night, it's hilarious briggs was so pissed and acted like neil was chickenshit and put out the "clean commercial" version as if the released version of tonight's the night was rumors by fleetwood mac in comparison to his version

of course, briggs comes off as genuinely crazy though so who knows

there are so many truly insane fucked up people in shakey

yeah judging from shakey, that's neil's MO -- find these nutty characters and feed off of them. neil might not actually be the weirdest guy in the world, but he gets a certain energy from weirdos.

would just like to say that Stringman is such a great song

yeah it is a beaut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6MiCj8tlUI

I thought it was odd that, on the memo, it's credited as a Neil Young & Crazy Horse album even though the band only plays on 4 out of 12 tracks (and Poncho shows up on a 5th).

Then again, they're only on 4 of 9 tracks on Rust Never Sleeps.

coming round the mountain!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/05/11/152486586/song-premiere-neil-young-sets-americana-on-fire

damn this sounds good

guitars bein' mangled!

is he singing "she'll lead us to portal when she comes"? or am i mis-hearing that.

yeah it sounds like "she'll take us to the portals when she comes"....weird...that can't be in the original verses can it? maybe he's doing some weird sci-fi after the gold rush thing

man this fucking rocks

aaaah yeah that's the fucking ticket man.....loving this.

there's a point in every neil solo where he slides up from the low register to higher on the neck and that part always rules

portal is in the lyrics of the original spiritual , it's about the second coming of christ, i guess the portal leads you to the rapture

cool, didn't know that

hearing chops and slices of this song, really wishin my browser would play it. >:-[

so good

holy shit is this good

Apparently this video was rejected by Neil's record label:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur93x7zN4To

omg. stressful!
love that these songs all sound like "fuckin' up" basically. and first takes.

blurgh, tix go on sale for neil & crazy horse at red rocks right now, but decent seats are well over $100. no way i can actually pay that amount.

Dude this is ”bad” advice, but...credit card

oh i can *afford* it w/o going into the poor house, i just have this incredible aversion to paying more than like $40 for concerts. The shitty seats are $65!

Yeah I guess not living there I have a way overblown idea of how amazing red rocks would be, mostly because of seeing that u2 video as a kid

eh, if you're back far enough, the sound can be pretty terrible.

o_0 at that video. getting more and more excited for this record!

This is going to be the best kids record ever.

yeahhhh. seriously, all of these songs are sounding pretty great.

Stoned at a dinner party last Saturday, I wandered into the living room where Sirius was playing. It took me a couple minutes to realize it was Neil doing "Oh Susanna."

It's weird, his website lists a bunch of tour dates, but only a handful show the location...and some are a month apart. But I'm definitely gonna try to catch him if he gets within driving distance.

Those aren't tour dates, they are the dates of full moons. Neil has a thing about full moons.

Tarfumes, you must be new to Neil's website.

a couple years back the "tour" link was a picture of the LINK/VOLT car, where the 'rivets' were meant to represent the tour dates. Lets just say that the bullet points on his website don't necessarily ever get filled in.

He's real coy about that shit.

Anyway, he always does this shit. Yeah, it's maddening

Lots of stuff here, mainly live, but check the info links for each dl: also incl unreleased albums etc. Neil-wise: the Trans Band and many other nice things http://www.ousterhout.net/music-menu.html

Tarfumes, you must be new to Neil's website.

Indeed I am. And yeah, maddening is the word for it.

jesus christ, this americana stuff is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSpnfUx_o3E

ok that one might not be one of the highlights, still not bad

yeah, my least fave so far, but the guitar does sound pretty sweet.

I love Neil Young and I love most of this album but I don't know how anyone can even half-heartedly defend this steaming turd of a tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-DO3FgROI

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-neil-young-and-crazy-horse-americana-20120528

This is really fun, but I wish he had just brought in new songs. The fact that it is old folk songs is exactly what a) makes it a novelty and b) will keep me from listening to it more than once or twice.

Though, who knows, you know? "Tom Dula" is pretty awesome.