'Rock'n'Roll Cowboy: A Life On The Road — 1966-1994' is a 4CD live compilation from everybody's favorite Uncle.
This is a very nice bootleg from our friends at Great Dane Records, in Milan, Italy. It's beautifully packaged, and has a 48-page booklet, which is included in the freeload (natch).
Disc 1 (1966-1973):
1. Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
2. Birds
3. Cowgirl in the Sand
4. Tell Me Why
5. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
6. Everybody’s Alone
7. A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold
8. Out on the Weekend
9. Love In Mind
10. Dance Dance Dance
11. Cripple Creek Ferry
12. L.A.
13. Soldier
14. Harvest
15. Sweet Joni
16. Tonight’s the Night
17. Tired Eyes.
Disc 2 (1974-1978)
1. Pardon My Heart
2. On the Beach
3. Traces
4. Human Highway
5. Love Art Blues
6. Hawaiian Sunrise
7. Like a Hurricane
8. Stringman
9. Evening Coconut
10. Long May You Run
11. Southern Man
12. Give Me Strength
13. Comes a Time
14. Sail Away
15. Lady Wingshot
16. Shots,
17. Downtown.
Disc 3 (1982-1985)
1. If You Got Love
2. Transformer Man
3. My Boy
4. Old Ways
5. Kinda Fonda Wanda
6. Gonna Rock Forever
7. Touch the Night
8. Amber Jean
9. Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
10. Helpless
11. Down by the River
12. Interstate
13. Grey Riders
14. Nothing Is Perfect
15. Southern Pacific
Disc 4 (1986-1994):
1. Mideast Vacation
2. Road of Plenty (El Dorado)
3. Computer Age
4. Bad News
5. Ordinary People
6. Rockin’ in the Free World
7. Winterlong
8. Silver and Gold
9. Campaigner
10. Homefires
11. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
12. Mr. Soul
13. Separate Ways
14. Philadelphia
For the freeload, what Neil Young album do you play the most?
A tie between After the Gold Rush, Zuma, On the Beach, Comes a Time. Gbrand
ReplyDeleteTrans and Old Ways. Trans was the first I got by him. My brother had some "hippy-stuff" (I was 13 ok?) And then came Trans. Simply the best I'd heard from him. And when Old Ways came out, I was in a bit of a Metal period. It made perfect sense.
ReplyDeleteI was 13 when Rust Never Sleeps and Live Rust came out. Those were the first LP's I bought by Uncle Neil.
DeleteAs far as which ones I play most often, it's a tossup between Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After The Gold Rush. Gold Rush is my wife's favorite.
'Live Rust' is underrated.
DeleteYes! And for a young person with a limited budget, those double live albums (like the one from The Kinks) were a relatively inexpensive way to catch up on an artist's career. I didn't get to see Uncle Neil until his tour with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion.
DeleteProbably his first solo album. I love "The Old Laughing Lady."
ReplyDelete"The Old Laughing Lady" is one of my favorites too. I love the Gospel(ish) backing vocals from Merry Clayton, Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Gloria Richetta Jones and Sherlie Matthews.
DeleteMerry is such a doll! I hope she's doing well.
Delete"Freedom" - 1989
ReplyDeleteTo me, this album came out of nowhere, given Young's 1980's "uneven" output - the contentious "Geffen years" etc. I thought the group of songs presented were uniformly strong. It hit me like Dylan's 1997 "Time Out of Mind" album - my reaction to both albums was - "Where did this come from and how? The vagaries of the creative muse I suppose. In any event, I like both albums a lot.
On The Beach followed by Tonight's The Night. Thanks Babs
ReplyDeleteTime Fades Away. When I tell you I listened to it everyday roughly 1973-1975 I'm not even kidding; still my fave.
ReplyDeleteTime Fades Away but I probably played Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere more than any other Neil album
ReplyDeleteI liked Neil from my initiation into his music circa Deja Vu, and that early 70s stuff is my favorite Neil era; however, my favorite Neil album is one from the infamous contentious Geffen years (to quote Thames): Life. This album never got the love I felt for it, and, judging from the setlist on your offering today, maybe Neil didn't love it too much, as only 'Mideast Vacation' made the cut.
ReplyDeleteC in California
First started with Decade & After The Goldrush and expanded out from there but probably listen to Everybody Knows This is Nowhere the most.
ReplyDeleteAnon RF: LikeJonder above, my two faves are Gold Rush and Everybody Knows... Play the grooves off of 'em.
ReplyDeleteMe again: That said, for me, Like A Hurricane is his greatest moment.
DeleteDecade is a great collection. I played the side with "Tired Eyes" and "Turnstiles" a lot.
DeleteAfter The Gold Rush
ReplyDeleteOn the Beach (great album cover too)! Followed by Zuma, not so great album cover...
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's 'After The Gold Rush'. Also, 'Everybody Knows This is Nowhere' and 'Zuma' get lots of playtime.
ReplyDeleteHi Babs, your Blog is Great. I listen a lot to "Everybody knows this is nowhere", but also to the epic "Words (Behind the Lines of Age)" from "Journey through the past".
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ikeclanton!
DeleteEverybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Zuma, Comes A Time, and I have a soft spot for Ragged Glory.
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ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/BAHk6dSuuCe
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https://workupload.com/file/LTNJ3TbvLsg
@eric and Bell-eye—Here's a 24bit/192kHz, version of 'Time Fades Away'.
https://workupload.com/file/7MyLL8CtCrt
Babs - thank you for this sweet version of "Time Fades Away". Simply outstanding.
Deleteah-mazing--you're the best
DeleteOver time, it's "Everybody...". But that's also the one I've owned the longest.
ReplyDeleteYou probably have these, but if you don't, they're worth a spin:
Neil & Crazy Horse, Catalyst, 1984:
https://mega.nz/file/CIYgTC7Y#b--z3-d40BIqq5ZVIR2L_uDUzNpjDkMYKONbY0fVHAk
https://mega.nz/file/ecoQmZaZ#f9bCAo4taPD7d3UY3grn4auNK2WzQwPckxf52DFMPz4
https://mega.nz/file/WZxzjSSK#N33wj7yNnNKWADeaQoUDpzU9D4diZTLUlzoFr2A2mx0
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere for the intensity of the guitar duels between Young and Whitten.
ReplyDeleteProbably, "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere". I have a question TOTALLY UNRELATED to all of this. Has anyone heard the new Marty Stuart surf-instrumental album, "Space Junk"? It was a record day only release, not streamable. Anyone got it?
ReplyDeleteHere's some Neil that I've shared elsewhere: the DVD soundtrack to "Year Of The Horse" (which is different from the live album of the same name). Some kind soul converted the DVD audio to FLAC: https://pixeldrain.com/u/m9kgm3KH
ReplyDeleteSo much music. So much Neil. Thanks everybody, and Babs who is the catalyst that makes it happen. I guess Decade is (boringly) my most played Neil. My most watched Neil is the German concert film from the Trans tour. The one with the big fan off stage blowing a gale, And Neil with the weird vocodered voice and a very dazed and confused crowd watching him, bewildered. Priceless.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks to draftervoi and jonder for additional Links!
ReplyDeleteDecade, 4way street CSNY, Buffalo Springfield
ReplyDeleteLive Rust is first, followed by either On The Beach or Buffalo Springfield. I listen to playlists with strong doses of his first, Everybody Knows, and Decade, but the question was "album" and I try to follow instructions. ;^)
ReplyDeleteD in California
Same as mumbles: On The Beach followed by Tonight's The Night. Everybody Knows would be a close third. Thanks Babs!
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