I have a lot more in the way of Neil Young stray tracks albums to post. But before I get to that, I want to help make sure that every Neil Young fan has a copy of this concert.
This concert is merely an audience bootleg, but it's one of the most treasured Young concert recordings of all time, if not THE most, for several reasons. For one, the sound is very good for an audience bootleg. But more importantly, the setlist is incredible. Consider that at the time, only ONE ("Helpless") of the 11 songs he played at this show had been officially released! (Four of the songs would appear on his "On the Beach" album two months later.) On top of that, he was in a particularly talkative mood, speaking at length between nearly all the songs.
The concert was definitely an oddity. In 1974, Young was peaking as a songwriter, writing more songs than he knew what to do with. But the only concert tour he did that year was the massive summer tour as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Aside from that, he only performed two concerts, with this being one. (The other one unfortunately never was bootlegged at all, which is a real shame, since he did two cover songs, "Carol" by Chuck Berry and "Chug All Night" by the Eagles, that he never did before or since.)
From what I understand, Young wasn't billed to perform. Instead, Ry Cooder put on a concert that night, and when his show finished, Young came on stage by himself for a bonus hour-long set. Apparently, he just wanted to try out some of his new songs prior to the big CSNY tour to see how they'd go over with an audience. A couple of the songs, like "Pardon My Heart" and a cover of "Greensleeves," he only ever played in concert once or twice in his entire career. For many of the others, especially the epic "Pushed It Over the End," this was the only time he would ever play them in a solo acoustic format.
So the concert truly is unique. Download it already! ;)
By the way, if you're wondering about the album title "Citizen Kane Junior Blues," that's how this concert is commonly known, since that's what he called "Pushed It Over the End" just before he played it, even though that title had nothing to do with the lyrics. It would take many years before the song's true name became known. (A live CSNY version of it would be released decades later.)
01 Pushed It Over the End (Neil Young)
02 talk (Neil Young)
03 Long May You Run (Neil Young)
04 Greensleeves (Neil Young)
05 talk (Neil Young)
06 Ambulance Blues (Neil Young)
07 talk (Neil Young)
08 Helpless (Neil Young)
09 talk (Neil Young)
10 Revolution Blues (Neil Young)
11 On the Beach (Neil Young)
12 talk (Neil Young)
13 Roll Another Number [For the Road] (Neil Young)
14 talk (Neil Young)
15 Motion Pictures (Neil Young)
16 talk (Neil Young)
17 Pardon My Heart (Neil Young)
18 talk (Neil Young)
19 Dance, Dance, Dance (Neil Young)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15258878/NeilY_1974a_CitiznKneJrBluesBottmLneNYC__5-16-1974_atse.zip.html
The cover art is taken from a bootleg of the show. I didn't change the partial sepia colorization at all because I think it looks good. I'm hoping that the photo is from the actual show, but I'm not sure. I merely changed some of the text under Young's name.
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