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Neil Young Opens The "Cellar Door" With Vintage 1970 Concerts

October 22, 2013 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Neil Young - Cellar Door

No, there’s still not a date on the calendar for the much-talked-about release of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s 1974 concert tapes last scheduled for August 27 and currently anticipating release next year.  (Or so it’s been reported.)  But Neil Young has a solo live release scheduled for December 10 that should whet appetites for that CSNY project and excite fans and collectors in its own right, too.  Young’s camp has confirmed Live at the Cellar Door, the latest installment of Young's Archive Performance Series.  The new release has been culled from a six-concert solo acoustic stand at Washington, DC’s tiny Cellar Door club between November 30 and December 2, 1970.  The 13-song Live at the Cellar Door will be released digitally as well as on CD and as a 2-LP 180-gram vinyl set from Reprise Records.

At the time of the Cellar Door shows, Young was riding the wave of success from 1970’s CSNY chart-topper Déjà vu as well as his third solo album, After the Gold Rush.  Gold Rush had been released on August 31, 1970 and achieved gold status by November 2, 1970.  (In 2004, it was certified twice-platinum.)  It  peaked in the U.S. Top 10 and introduced Young’s future standard (and Top 40 hit) “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” as well as the caustic “Southern Man” and a number of songs also destined for multiple cover versions like the atmospheric title track and “Don’t Let It Bring You Down.”

The six concerts at the Cellar Door were held twice-nightly, and marked Young’s return to the stage after a break of roughly five months.  They were also essentially rehearsals for his solo Carnegie Hall stint of December 4 and 5, 1970.  During the gigs, he played Gold Rush material (“After the Gold Rush,” “Don’t Let It Bring You Down,” “Only Love Can Break Your Heart,” “Birds,” “Tell Me Why”), songs from his second album, 1969’s Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (“Cinnamon Girl” in a rare piano-and-voice rendition and “Down by the River”) and even Buffalo Springfield material (“Expecting to Fly,” “Flying on the Ground is Wrong,” “I Am a Child”).  In addition, Young premiered new songs at the Cellar Door including “Old Man,” “Bad Fog of Loneliness” and “See the Sky About to Rain.”  “Old Man” was destined to appear on Young’s next, chart-topping LP Harvest (1972), while “See the Sky About to Rain” found a home on 1974’s On the Beach.  “Bad Fog” didn’t officially surface on CD until a live version appeared on 2007’s Live at Massey Hall 1971; a studio version likely recorded circa Harvest subsequently was released on 2009’s Archives, Volume 1.

After the jump, we have more details plus the complete track listing!

Live at the Cellar Door marks the third volume of Young's Archive Performance Series to feature a concert recorded between March of 1970 and January of 1971, following past releases of Live at Massey Hall 1971 and Live at the Fillmore East 1970.  (Other Performance Series titles have included Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968, Dreamin’ Man – Live ’92, and A Treasure, recorded in 1984-1985.)  It’s been produced by Young, and the original recordings were made by Henry Lewy.  The 2-LP vinyl edition has been mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and pressed at Pallas in Germany.  Cellar Door is due in all formats on December 10.  You can pre-order below!

Neil Young, Archive Performance Series: Live at the Cellar Door (Reprise, 2013)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD

2-LP: Amazon U.S. /Amazon U.K. TBD

  1. Tell Me Why
  2. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  3. After the Gold Rush
  4. Expecting to Fly
  5. Bad Fog of Loneliness
  6. Old Man
  7. Birds
  8. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
  9. See the Sky About to Rain
  10. Cinnamon Girl
  11. I Am a Child
  12. Down by the River
  13. Flying on the Ground is Wrong

All tracks previously unreleased.

Categories: News Tags: Neil Young, Vinyl

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Charlie Bermant says

    October 22, 2013 at 10:56 am

    Why is it two discs when there are only 13 tracks?

    Reply
  2. ronfwnc says

    October 22, 2013 at 12:44 pm

    I think that's a mistake. Everywhere else (including the press release) lists the CD version as a single disc, which makes more sense.

    Reply
    • Joe Marchese says

      October 22, 2013 at 12:54 pm

      The original announcement made in Rolling Stone described CELLAR DOOR as a "two-disc set." That said, a one-disc configuration for CD seems more likely.

      Reply
  3. Jim says

    October 22, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    Miles Davis issued all the shows from the same venue in a box set why do we get a tiny portion of six sets?

    Reply
    • ronfwnc says

      October 22, 2013 at 9:43 pm

      Because Neil is still us and firmly in control of his recorded legacy, as always. The flood of Miles reissues all came after his death.

      Reply
  4. Steven says

    October 22, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    A couple of minor corrections:

    a song title is wrong -“Only Love Can Break Your Heart”

    "Bad Fog ..." was first released on the Red Rocks Live / Friends + Relatives DVD in 2000.

    Reply
  5. Darren says

    October 22, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    No blu-ray? All recent Neil Young releases had a blu-ray option.

    Reply
  6. steve gilmour says

    October 22, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    when the f$$$ is Archives 2 coming out......anyone?

    Reply
    • JoeF. says

      October 22, 2013 at 10:43 pm

      When Neil and everyone else who cares about his music is either deaf...or dead.

      Reply

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