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UPDATED 10/23: Here We Go In The Years: “Neil Young Archives, Volume 2: 1972-1976” Due November 20, Standard Releases to Follow

October 23, 2020 By Sam Stone 13 Comments

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PRE-ORDER FROM NEIL YOUNG’S ONLINE STORE

UPDATE 10/23/2020:  It’s been a long time since Neil Young released his last Archives box set.  In the intervening 11 years since Neil released Archives, Volume 1: 1963-1972, fans have endlessly speculated what might be on Volume 2 – or if it might happen at all.

Well, it’s happening.  The 10-CD Neil Young Archives, Volume 2: 1972-1976 box set will be released on November 20. The links to pre-order are live for the limited, deluxe edition set of 3,000 units which is available exclusively through Neil Young’s Greedy Hand Online Store.  A digital edition will also be available on Neil Young Archives and all major digital services.

UPDATE: On October 23, following the quick sell-out of the box set, Neil announced on NYA’s Times Contrarian that slimmer editions will follow in the year to come.  This will be welcome news to those who may have missed out on the high-demand box set. His full statement is as follows:

Reprise Records, my record company for about 50 years, underestimated the demand for Archives VOLUME II. We were all surprised. It is a beautiful package that I am proud to have made for you. I do feel badly that we did not deliver it to many who were waiting so long for it.

We don’t feel that offering more of a product sold as a limited edition is a good thing to do. Thank you to all who purchased this set.

In 2021 we will be offering more Archives VOLUME II products as Reprise had originally planned, available in all outlets. These, while not the boxed set, will offer all of the of the music and discs with a smaller book. The original large book will be available for separate sale.

Thanks! NYA

In its limited edition box set format, Archives, Volume 2 is sequenced chronologically to spotlight the astonishingly prolific period lovingly referred to as the Ditch Years.  The box contains a staggering 131 tracks from Neil’s personal archive.  Of those, 12 songs have never been released by Neil in any form before, a further 49 songs are presented in previously unheard versions.  And though recent releases Homegrown, Tuscaloosa, and Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live are all repeated here, there’s plenty of completely unheard material to satisfy any fan of this era.

The discs are packaged in a deluxe box similar in size to the Archives Vol. 1 Blu-ray box set (though do note there will only be CDs in this volume!).  The discs are housed in individual card sleeves and are presented alongside a 252-page book full of rare photos, memorabilia, and archival material.  You’ll also get a timeline and tape database reference and a Neil Young Archives “file cabinet poster.”  This deluxe box set will be limited to only 3,000 copies.  worldwide.  That’s right, Neil has launched new web stores for Canada and the UK.  This should help alleviate those long shipping times, fees, and other grievances that come with ordering abroad, plus each webstore will have its own dedicated customer service team.

If that weren’t enough, you’ll also get access to high-resolution 24-bit/192kHz digital files of all 131 tracks, and a free one-year membership to Neil Young Archives.

Let’s take a look at what’s inside!

The box begins with Everybody’s Alone, a disc of tracks recorded in the wake of Harvest and into 1973.  A sort of alternate version of Time Fades Away, the disc includes unreleased versions of that song, “L.A.,” “The Loner,” “Monday Morning” (otherwise known as “Last Dance”), “The Bridge,” and “Human Highway.”  The long-awaited unreleased tracks “Letter From ‘Nam,” “Come and Say You Will,” “Goodbye Christmas on the Shore,” and “Sweet Joni” round out the disc.

CD 2 contains Tuscaloosa, the 2019 release that features 11 songs from Neil Young and The Stray Gators’ set at the University of Alabama in February 1973.  It’s followed by an expanded Tonight’s The Night featuring an unheard jam on “Speaking Out,” an alternate version of “Everybody’s Alone,” and – very surprising given her stance on outtakes – the long-rumored jam between Neil Young and Joni Mitchell on “Raised On Robbery.”  The song from her Court and Spark album is said to be treated completely differently here.  “It kicks ass…” Neil says in his book, Waging Heavy Peace.  “It was funkier than anything she has ever cut. A total gem!”  Next up, CD 4 includes an expanded Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live.  Originally released in 2018, these raw live versions are supplemented with a live cut of “The Losing End.”

An alternate On The Beach follows on the fifth CD, called Walk On.  In addition to the studio cuts that we’ve known for decades, it includes the unreleased song “Greensleeves,” an alternate version of “Traces,” and a Beach-era outtake of what must be Neil’s favorite, “Bad Fog of Loneliness.”

CD 6 is called This Old Homestead and seems to mirror Young’s vision for what he called Homefires.  A companion to the recently released Homegrown (which itself appears as CD 7), Homestead features tracks that were prepared for that album alongside songs intended for CSNY’s brief and tumultuous reunion.  It’s a disc that’s full of sought-after material, including “L.A. Boys and Ocean Girls” (which became part of Zuma‘s “Danger Bird”), an unreleased version of “Pushed It Over the End,” “Changing Highways.”  The clutch of Homegrown outtakes includes unheard versions of “Love/Art Blues,” “Give Me Strength,” “Bad News Comes to Town,” plus the never-before-heard songs “Homefires,” “Frozen Man,”  and “Daughters.”  The unreleased music continues on CD 8, Dume, which collects classics from Zuma and eight session outtakes, including the unreleased “Born To Run” (an original song, not the Bruce Springsteen classic).  CD 9, Look Out For My Love, brings together songs from the aborted CSNY album that became The Stills-Young Band’s Long May You Run, plus tracks that were eventually released on American Stars ‘n’ Bars and Comes A Time.

The set closes out with a collection that Neil has been teasing for years, Odeon Budokan.  The 10-track disc presumably mirrors an original track listing for a proposed live album featuring a resurrected Crazy Horse.  It features a blend of acoustic and electric material, recent songs and fan favorites from across his career.  Among them are “After The Gold Rush,” “Cowgirl in the Sand,” “Old Man” as well as “Lotta Love,” “Stringman,” “Too Far Gone,” and more.

You can make your purchase of Neil Young Archives, Volume 2: 1972-1976 at the Greedy Hand Online Store at Neil Young Archives – and get a taste of what you’ll get with these unboxing videos and trailers.

Unboxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE_CxA02fd0

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oExYA4qLJwk

Neil Young, Archives, Volume 2: 1972-1976 (Reprise, 2020) (Greedy Hand US / Greedy Hand UK / Greedy Hand Canada)

* = previously unreleased song
# = new unreleased version

Disc 1 (1972-1973) – Everybody’s Alone

  1. Letter From ‘Nam *
  2. Monday Morning #
  3. The Bridge #
  4. Time Fades Away #
  5. Come Along and Say You Will *
  6. Goodbye Christmas on the Shore *
  7. Last Trip to Tulsa
  8. The Loner #
  9. Sweet Joni *
  10. Yonder Stands the Sinner
  11. L.A. (Story)
  12. L.A. #
  13. Human Highway #

Track 7 released as B-side to “Time Fades Away,” Reprise Records single REP-1184, 1973.
Track 10 released on Time Fades Away, Reprise Records LP MS-2151, 1973.

Disc 2 (1973) – Tuscaloosa

  1. Here We Go in the Years
  2. After the Gold Rush
  3. Out on the Weekend
  4. Harvest
  5. Old Man
  6. Heart of Gold
  7. Time Fades Away
  8. Lookout Joe
  9. New Mama
  10. Alabama
  11. Don’t Be Denied

All tracks released on Tuscaloosa, Reprise Records LP 587621-1, 2019.

Disc 3 (1973) – Tonight’s the Night

  1. Speakin’ Out Jam #
  2. Everybody’s Alone #
  3. Tired Eyes
  4. Tonight’s the Night
  5. Mellow My Mind
  6. World on a String
  7. Speakin’ Out
  8. Raised on Robbery [with Joni Mitchell] *
  9. Roll Another Number (For The Road)
  10. New Mama
  11. Albuquerque
  12. Tonight’s the Night Part II

Tracks 3-7, 9-12 released on Tonight’s The Night, Reprise Records LP MS-2221, 1975.

Disc 4 (1973) – Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live

  1. Tonight’s the Night
  2. Mellow My Mind
  3. World on a String
  4. Speakin’ Out
  5. Albuquerque
  6. New Mama
  7. Roll Another Number
  8. Tired Eyes
  9. Tonight’s the Night Part II
  10. Walk On
  11. The Losing End #

Tracks 1-10 released on Reprise Records LP 566051-1, 2018.

Disc 5 (1974) – Walk On

  1. Winterlong
  2. Walk On
  3. Bad Fog of Loneliness #
  4. Borrowed Tune
  5. Traces #
  6. For the Turnstiles
  7. Ambulance Blues
  8. Motion Pictures
  9. On the Beach
  10. Revolution Blues
  11. Vampire Blues
  12. Greensleeves *

Track 1 released on Decade, Reprise Records LP 3RS-2257, 1977.
Track 2, 6-11 released on On The Beach, Reprise Records LP R-2180, 1974.
Track 4 released on Tonight’s The Night, Reprise Records LP MS-2221, 1975.

Disc 6 (1974) – The Old Homestead

  1. Love/Art Blues #
  2. Through My Sails #
  3. Homefires *
  4. Pardon My Heart #
  5. Hawaiian Sunrise #
  6. LA Girls and Ocean Boys *
  7. Pushed It Over the End #
  8. On the Beach #
  9. Vacancy #
  10. One More Sign #
  11. Frozen Man *
  12. Give Me Strength #
  13. Bad News Comes to Town #
  14. Changing Highways #
  15. Love/Art Blues #
  16. The Old Homestead
  17. Daughters *
  18. Deep Forbidden Lake
  19. Love/Art Blues #

Track 16 releases on Hawks & Doves, Reprise Records LP HS-2297, 1980.
Track 18 released on Decade, Reprise Records LP 3RS-2257, 1977.

Disc 7 (1974) – Homegrown

  1. Separate Ways
  2. Try
  3. Mexico
  4. Love Is a Rose
  5. Homegrown
  6. Florida
  7. Kansas
  8. We Don’t Smoke It No More
  9. White Line
  10. Vacancy
  11. Little Wing
  12. Star of Bethlehem

All tracks released on Homegrown, Reprise Records CD 2-628761, 2020.

Disc 8 (1975) – Dume

  1. Ride My Llama #
  2. Cortez the Killer
  3. Don’t Cry No Tears
  4. Born to Run *
  5. Barstool Blues
  6. Danger Bird
  7. Stupid Girl
  8. Kansas #
  9. Powderfinger #
  10. Hawaii #
  11. Drive Back
  12. Lookin’ for a Love
  13. Pardon My Heart
  14. Too Far Gone #
  15. Pocahontas #
  16. No One Seems to Know #

Track 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11-13 released on Zuma, Reprise Records LP MS-2242, 1975.

Disc 9 (1976) – Look Out for My Love

  1. Like a Hurricane
  2. Lotta Love
  3. Look Out For My Love
  4. Separate Ways #
  5. Let It Shine #
  6. Long May You Run
  7. Fontainebleau
  8. Traces #
  9. Mellow My Mind #
  10. Midnight on the Bay #
  11. Stringman #
  12. Mediterranean *
  13. Ocean Girl #
  14. Midnight on the Bay #
  15. Human Highway #

Track 1 released on American Stars ‘n Bars, Reprise Records LP MSK-2261, 1977.
Tracks 2 and 3 released on Comes A Time, Reprise Records LP MSK-2266, 1978.
Tracks 6 and 7 released on Long May You Run, Reprise Records LP MS-2253, 1976.

Disc 10 (1976) – Odeon Budokan

  1. The Old Laughing Lady #
  2. After the Gold Rush #
  3. Too Far Gone #
  4. Old Man #
  5. Stringman #
  6. Don’t Cry No Tears #
  7. Cowgirl in the Sand #
  8. Lotta Love #
  9. Drive Back #
  10. Cortez the Killer #​

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Stills-Young Band

Sam Stone

Sam Stone has been obsessed with catalog music ever since his folks gave him a Contours best-of collection for his fourth birthday. He quickly began to learn all he could about rock and roll history and beyond, a passion that continues to this day. Sam followed his love for music to the classroom, earning a B.A. from Towson University in Electronic Media and Film, concentrating on radio and audio production, as well as an M.A. in Audio Arts from Syracuse University. He has put his knowledge and skills to work at prominent reissue labels and is excited to bring his perspectives on catalog music to a broader audience. When he’s not writing for The Second Disc, Sam can be found researching about music, talking about Joni Mitchell’s career, and adding another box set to his Amazon wish list.

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Comments

  1. BT says

    October 23, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    Does this mean they will be selling individual discs? This would be great for those who already own most of the songs…

    Reply
  2. Peter J Haas says

    October 23, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    Why are you bothering to go into such detail about a product we can’t buy.

    Well, I hope Neil Young will remember this: THANKS FOR THE GIANT NOTHINGBURGER.

    Reply
    • James Laidlaw says

      October 25, 2020 at 7:45 am

      Bang on ,not much thought for us poor Neil fans

      Reply
  3. Mike Pasqua says

    October 23, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    Typical Neil…screws his musical partners. Screws his fans. And, so on….

    Reply
  4. johnm says

    October 24, 2020 at 5:48 am

    “Video unavailable”. Bit like the box.

    Reply
  5. John F says

    October 24, 2020 at 10:45 am

    Sadly, I just can’t seem to drum up any interest in this. I have the first big box. However, I might buy one of the singles discs when they come out. I’ve grown a bit weary of Neil and his two faces … one, the hippie socialist who whines about greedy white men and the damage they’ve done, and the greedy white man that is his other face. Think maybe I’ll listen to Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere later today, that and Gold Rush still my two favorite Neil albums, through the years.

    Reply
  6. Mark says

    October 24, 2020 at 11:34 am

    That’s great news on the slimmer edition! I was hoping for that!

    Reply
  7. Michael Grabowski says

    October 26, 2020 at 4:01 pm

    I’m really hoping the Odeon Budokan disc appears as its own single disc release next year.

    Reply
  8. Delforce, Ian says

    October 26, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Bit xpensive but i love th first box, even tho already had a lot

    Reply
  9. Gerry Hassan says

    October 28, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    Who cares abt Neil Young’s endless reissue programme?

    This is the last straw for me as a Neil Young fan.

    I have everything by Young apart from Archives Vol One; and I have no temptation for any version of Archives Vol Two. But that is me with Neil Young; he has only released one really good album in the past 25 years and piles of mediocre, rambling dross.

    Reply
  10. David Parker says

    October 31, 2020 at 6:42 am

    I hope there is also a slimmed down version of the first Archives set. I missed out on that one, and I’m much more interested in the music than the packaging. I would definitely buy both sets of they were made available in this way.

    Reply
  11. Mike Share says

    November 12, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    New Amazon listing today happy 75th birthday Neil!
    https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08N37KCV5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    Reply
    • Sam Stone says

      November 12, 2020 at 7:12 pm

      Yep, it’s good news! We’ll have new coverage about this retail edition soon. In the meantime, spinning some Neil for his 75th. 🙂

      Reply

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