Neil Young - Hitchhiker

>>74336177
am i baned?

tseting tsetiung 323

>>74336177
How did it get lost and where was it found?

>>74336331
"Lost album" refers to a work that never made it to release/completion. For example, Weezer's rock opera 'Songs from the Black Hole'.

>Neil Young will release a new studio album — which he originally recorded in 1976. The disc, dubbed Hitchhiker, is set for an August 4 release via Reprise Records and will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally.

>The 10-track acoustic album was recorded live in the studio August 11, 1976, at Indigo Studios in Malibu, California. It contains some of Young’s best-loved songs plus two previously unreleased tracks.

>The original session was produced by Young’s longtime studio collaborator David Brings with new post production by John Hanlon, who has worked with Young since 1990 and produced his most recent works, including Peace Trail, Earth, The Monsanto Years, etc.

>As these songs were recorded in a single session, the resultant performances are breathtaking and passionate. The simplicity of a single voice and guitar captured here are as pure and powerful as the creator intended with only Young and Briggs in the room at the time of recording.

>Many of the songs would not appear on vinyl until years later. The title track, for example, did not officially appear until 2010’s Le Noise and naturally sounds worlds apart from the original. The version herein of “Captain Kennedy” has certain raw spontaneity compared to the slightly gentler version that would eventually surface on Hawks & Doves in 1980.

>Perhaps the most noticeable jewels in the crown of Hitchhiker are the two previously unreleased tracks that have remained in the vaults since 1976: “Hawaii” a soaring ballad and unlike anything else Young had recorded at the time. Side one closes out with “Give Me Strength,” which would be occasionally performed live in the mid-Seventies but now available here for the first time and may well be considered one of Young’s best long lost gems.

A lot of these Neil backlog albums are a long time coming. Still waiting on:

Chrome Dreams (Comes a Time/Rust Never Sleeps amalgam)
Homegrown (darker Tonight's the Night)
Islands in the Sun (tropical songs like the ones on Trans)
Time Fades Away alternate
Tonight's the Night alternate
Old Ways alternate
IIRC there's an alternate This Note's for You, too.

Obviously some of those probably aren't amazing, and there's overlap, but I'm still salty because Archives II should have been out a long time ago.

>>74336397
>plus two previously unreleased tracks.
One of which is pro-cocaine. What a coincidence.

>>74336557
fuck yourself.

>>74336481
The Chrome Dreams bootleg is really good. I wonder what Neil's finished version would have been like.

>>74336995
Upon closer inspection, it kind of looks like Hitchhiker basically is Chrome Dreams I. At least, it shares most of its songs with the bootleg. I wonder if he just didn't want to call it Chrome Dreams anymore to avoid confusion in the official canon.

01 Pocahontas
02 Powderfinger
03 Captain Kennedy
04 Hawaii
05 Give Me Strength
06 Ride My Llama
07 Hitchhiker
08 Campaigner
09 Human Highway
10 The Old Country Waltz