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Bound for Glory: Young's Country-Minded Gems Sparkle Onstage

Five of the Dozen Tracks Never Before Released Including Sought-After "Grey Riders"

Audiophile-Grade Vinyl: 4th Side Features Special Etching

Includes MP3 Download of Entire Album

Neil Young's Archive Performance Series returns in 2011 with a true gem that will please both hardcore fans as well as music listeners seeking insight into one of the most unheralded, unexpected tours in history. Captured during Young's 1984-85 tour with a group of country pros named the International Harvesters, and featuring several of the most acclaimed performances in the legendary artist's career, A Treasure lives up to its name and more. 180g 2LP, mastered by Chris Bellman from the original tapes and pressed at Pallas, features a special art etching on the fourth side. In addition to the incredible sound, it's the music that really matters.

The 12-track live album includes songs, five of which are previously unreleased, recorded during Young's 1984 and 1985 U.S. tours without the support of an album or Young's then-record label due to unique and unusual circumstances. A Treasure features Young's onstage work with some of the greatest artists in the history of country music, including the late, great Ben Keith on steel and slide guitar and Rufus Thibodeaux on fiddle, along with living legends Spooner Oldham and Hargus "Pig" Robbins on piano, Tim Drummond and Joe Allen on bass, and Karl Himmel on drums, among many others.

The live album captures the iconic artist during a fascinating time in his career, when he was facing criticism and lawsuits from his then-current record company for exploring a more traditionally country sound. "You can call me erratic," Young said when asked at the time about his tendency toward musical shape-shifting, "but I've been consistent about it, consistently erratic." A Treasure is akin to a sonic time capsule, instantly transporting the listener to the time and place when it was made. "I love this record," Young says. "I hadn't heard these takes in 25 years, but when we unearthed them, co-producer Ben Keith said, 'This is a treasure.'"

Part of what makes A Treasure so compelling is the musical contributions of The International Harvesters, with whom Young was playing at the time. Many of them were already paragons within the country music world and their notoriety has only grown in the years since. "I just love to hear those guys," Young says. "They're all country music legends." Those behind the scenes also made significant contributions to A Treasure's sonic potency. Tim Mulligan mixed and mastered the tracks. At the time these songs were recorded, Bob Sterne was the tour manager, Tim Foster ran the stage, and Larry Cragg was in charge of the band's instruments.

Mastered from the original tapes by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, pressed at Pallas, and featuring heavenly sound, this is both an audiophile delight and musical revelation. Also includes MP3 download of entire record. Don't pass this up!

Track Listing:
1. Amber Jean
2. Are You Ready For The Country?
3. It Might Have Been
4. Bound For Glory
5. Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
6. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
7. Motor City
8. Soul Of A Woman
9. Get Back To The Country
10. Southern Pacific
11. Nothing Is Perfect
12. Grey Riders

Includes Free Limited Time mp3 Digital Download of the entire album!

Experience this live, 12-track ablum which includes 6 previously unreleased track recorded with legendary band, The International Harvesters, while on tour in the US in 1984. This Limited-Edition Vinyl pressing is on 140 Gram Double-Disc Vinyl featuring special artwork etched into the fourth side.

Neil Young unearths this live country album recorded with the International Harvesters. The 12-track album includes songs recorded during their 1984-85 U.S. tour. Selections include "Grey Riders" and artists include the late Ben Keith on steel and slide guitar, Rufus Thibodeaux on fiddle, Spooner Oldham and Hargus Robbins on piano, Tim Drummond and Joe Allen on bass, Karl Himmel on drums, Anthony Crawford on guitar, banjo and mandolin among others!

The live album captures this iconic artist during a fascinating time in his career, when he was facing criticism and lawsuits from his then current record company for exploring a more traditionally country sound. You can call me erratic, Young said when asked at the time about his tendency toward musical shape-shifting, but Ive been consistent about it, consistently erratic. Always celebrated for his musical versatility, A Treasure, is akin to a sonic time capsule, instantly transporting the listener to the time and place when it was made.

"I love this record. I hadn't heard these takes in 25 years, but when we unearthed them co-producer Ben Keith said, 'This is a treasure'." - Neil Young

Track Listing:
1. Amber Jean
2. Are You Ready For The Country?
3. It Might Have Been
4. Bound For Glory
5. Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
6. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
7. Motor City
8. Soul Of A Woman
9. Get Back To The Country
10. Southern Pacific
11. Nothing Is Perfect
12. Grey Riders

The second of three consecutive masterpieces Neil Young recorded between 1969 and 1972, After the Gold Rush captures the vibes, emotions, and cautious optimism of the era better than any album of its time. Moreover, it contains a host of impeccably written and performed songs that transcend the period and stand as an inextricable part of the American conscious.

Recorded at Youngs Topanga Canyon Ranch and featuring backing from the legendary Crazy Horse, the then-unknown prodigy Nils Lofgren, and several other friends, the 1970 album embraces many of the seemingly artistic contradictions and eccentric diversity that have made Young so peerless. The title track, a devastatingly gorgeous balladic meditation on the '60s and a warning of what may come in the 1970s, proved prophetic. Every other song is equally spectacular and significant.

The bristling whip-crack of Southern Man furthered Youngs no-holds-barred political commentary and prompted a response song in the form of Lynyrd Skynyrds Sweet Home Alabama, an anthem that its target praised. The country heartache of Oh, Lonesome Me simultaneously plays off and into the romantic spirit of the uplifting Dont Let It Bring You Down and the exuberant romp of When You Dance You Can Really Love. In one swoop, Young and company traverse the Heartland, Southern plantations, Appalachian valleys, and Los Angeles hills.

Having languished for decades, this masterwork (named as one of the '100 Best Albums of All-Time' by Rolling Stone) has finally received the long-overdue sonic treatment its deserved. Remastered from the original tapes by Youngs expert team and overseen by the artist himself, After the Gold Rush now sounds better than ever. Young has never sounded so immediate, detailed, rich, or present on a studio album.

The record joins 1968's Neil Young, 1969s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and 1972s Harvest as part of the initial batch of Young recordings pristinely mastered from the original tapes, pressed on high-quality audiophile-grade LP, and packaged in sleeves that faithfully mirror those of the originals.

Track Listing:
1. Tell Me Why
2. After The Gold Rush
3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
4. Southern Man
5. Till The Morning Comes
6. Oh Lonesome Me
7. Don't Let It Bring You Down
8. Birds
9. When You Dance, I Can Really Love
10. I Believe In You
11. Cripple Creek Ferry

Young has never been predictable, and during a time when his adopted country is largely at a crossroads and dealing with issues related to economic disparity, political fallout, and social upheaval, the Canadian native upends everything on this salient statement, as contemporary as it is timeless. Long preoccupied with topics relating to freedom, justice, and common people, Young turns in what's one of his most salient and relevant reflections on these matters and more by turning to history and tradition.

Featuring standards such as "Oh Susannah," "Clementine," "God Save the Queen," and "Wayfarin' Stranger," the record takes aim at modern issues through the lens of tunes that were bonding agents and communal anthems in the past. Young and Crazy Horse assume a position that functions as a voice of America, speaking to a heritage while sounding alarm bells and wake-up calls to heed in our present. The collective performs Woody Guthrie's signature "This Land Is Your Land" with the original verses, restoring the song's biting verve and fearless intent.

Young's seriousness is reflected in the liner notes he penned to accompany each track. As always, the analog aficionado ensured optimal recording methods deliver stunningly lifelike dynamic sound on LP. Young, John Hanlon, and Mark Humphreys produced; John Hausmann, Jeff Pinn, and Hanlon engineered.

As a thematic bookend to Bruce Springsteen's recent Wrecking Ball, and yet another pertinent Young & Crazy Horse effort, Americana is a seminal collection that no music fan should be without.

Track Listing:
1. Oh Susanna
2. Clementine
3. Tom Dula
4. Gallows Pole
5. Get a Job
6. Travel On
7. High Flyin' Bird
8. Jesus' Chariot
9. This Land Is Your Land
10. Wayfarin' Stranger
11. God Save the Queen

Limited Edition of 1000 on Colored Vinyl

COMPLETE LIVE BROADCAST FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD VERSIONS OF HEART OF GOLD, NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE, AFTER THE GOLDRUSH AND MANY MORE!

This spectacular show was caught in all its magnificence by KLOS FM, and broadcast across the airwaves for all to witness At well over two hours long, and boasting impeccable sound quality, Young draws from his full catalogue of work for this momentous concert In a boisterous yet jovial mood, and displaying so much of his unique guitar work, plus forays with harmonica, vocoder and even a telephone, this performance illustrates perfectly - if anyone is still in doubt - what all the fuss is about

Track Listing:
Side A
1. Introduction
2. Mr Soul
3. When You Dance, I Can Really Love
4. Down By The River
5. Too Lonely
6. Neils Mom Calls

Side B
7. Heart Of Gold
8. After The Goldrush
9. Inca Queen
10. Drive Back

Side C
11. Opera Star
12. Sam Kinison Calls
13. Cortez The Killer
14. Sample And Hold

Side D
15. Computer Age
16. Violent Side
17. Mideast Vacation
18. Long Walk Home

Side E
19. The Needle And The Damage Done
20. When Your Lonely Heart Breaks
21. Around The World
22. Powderfinger

Side F
23. Like A Hurricane
24. Hey Hey, My My
25. Prisoners Of RocknRoll

A colossal effort that signifies his first collaboration with Crazy Horse, bar-none the best garage-rock support band ever assembled, Neil Youngs Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere explodes with loose electricity, country-influenced harmonies, and fervent interplay that took melodic rock music in then-unforeseen directions. Moving away from the mellow fare that distinguished his self-titled debut, the pioneering Canadian icon stretches out and showcases his penchant for unhinged guitar solos and drifting arrangements.

Having come across the Rockets while recording his first solo outing, Young spared no time in recruiting the band for his own purposes. With the trio of Danny Whitten, drummer Ralph Molina, and bassist Billy Talbot renamed Crazy Horse, and Young ready with an energetic collection of tunes that called out for longer instrumentals and raw tones, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was recorded in a scant two weeks time and just four months after Youngs prior effort.

His symbiotic chemistry with fellow kindred spirit and rhythm guitarist Whitten is evident on the drawn-out Cowgirl In the Sand and murderous Down By the River, both a tangle of rolling narratives, mysterious tension, amplified feedback, and longing emotion which remain staples in Youngs live repertoire. As does Cinnamon Girl, which is distinguished by one of the most famous and magnetic riffs of all time. At this stage of his career, Young had never written such an engaging and expressive set of songs and the album remains a landmark on which every tune is a classic.

Having languished for decades, this masterwork has finally received the long-overdue sonic treatment its needed. Remastered from the original tapes by Youngs expert team and overseen by the artist himself, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere now sounds better than ever. Young has never sounded so immediate, detailed, rich, or present on a studio album.

The record joins 1968's Neil Young, 1970s After the Gold Rush, and 1972's Harvest as part of the initial batch of Young recordings pristinely mastered from the original tapes, pressed on high-quality audiophile-grade LP, and packaged in sleeves that faithfully mirror those of the originals.

Track Listing:
1. Cinnamon Girl
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3. Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
4. Down By The River
5. The Losing End
6. Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
7. Cowgirl In The Sand

NOW ON 180-GRAM VINYL!!!

Remastered from the original tapes! It sounds incredible!!

A quadruple Platinum No. 1 smash and the best-selling album of 1972, Harvest was Neil Young's fourth solo effort. With the Gold No. 1 "Heart Of Gold," Top 40 "Old Man," powerful "The Needle And The Damage Done," controversial "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Southern Man" companion "Alabama," Harvest won inclusion in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Albums Of All Time."

Deceptively laid-back-sounding country-rock plaints like "Out On The Weekend" and the title cut caress the ear unassumingly, pulling you into the more ominous subtext that is present in the rollicking "Are You Ready For The Country." As always, Young has an ear for contrasts, laying down heavy rock ("Alabama") besides his balladry, and even employing the London Symphony Orchestra on the excellent confessional "A Man Needs A Maid." Due to back troubles, Young recorded much of this material while wearing a brace, a fact that seems audible in the tension and unease that underlies the friendly, acoustic surface of this superb release.

Track Listing:
1. Out On The Weekend
2. Harvest
3. A Man Needs A Maid
4. Heart Of Gold
5. Are You Ready For The Country?
6. Old Man
7. There's A World
8. Alabama
9. The Needle And The Damage Done
10. Words (Between The Lines Of Age)

He'd been recently "rediscovered" and claimed by the grunge-rockers and their flannel-shirt-wearing audience - and his new album "Harvest Moon"presented a batch of folk- and country-influenced songs that recalled his earliest work.

The eclecticism of this period, and of his entire career, has made Neil Young a kind of icon of American music from the most aggressive, distorted rock to the most sensitive folk. .

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Long May You Run
2. From Hank To Hendrix
3. Unknown Legend
4. Love Is A Rose
5. Pocahontas
6. Tonights The Night
7. Like A Hurricane
8. War Of Man
9. The Needle And The Damage Done
10. One Of These Days
11. Such A Woman

LP 2
1. Harvest Moon
2. Dreamin Man
3. Natural Beauty
4. Dont Let It Bring You Down
5. Mr. Soul
6. Powderfinger
7. Sugar Mountain
8. You And Me
9. After The Gold Rush

This concert, recorded at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1978, served as the basis for both a famous concert film and a the well-regarded live album found here. It shows Neil Young concluding the first phase of what would become one of the most important and influential careers in rock and roll history. This Double 180g LP Import features a band at the top of their game playing some of the best songs of their era.

Track Listing:
1. Sugar Mountain
2. I'm A Child
3. Comes A Time
4. After The Gold Rush
5. Thrasher
6. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
7. When You Dance I Can Really Love
8. The Loner
9. Welfare Mothers
10. The Needle And The Damage Done
11. Lotta Love
12. Sedan Delivery
13. Powderfinger
14. Cortez The Killer
15. Cinnamon Girl
16. Like A Hurricane
17. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
18. Tonight's The Night

Side Two:
Families
Flags of Freedom
Let's Impeach The President
Lookin' For A Leader
Roger And Out

His self-titled 1968 solo debut album, following his exit from Buffalo Springfield, bridged what was and what would be. Although the eponymous release was his only album not to chart, it featured the classic track The Loner and marked the launching point of an illustrious solo career. Neil Young was followed by the three acknowledged masterpieces, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush and Harvest.

Track Listing:
1. Emperor of Wyoming
2. Loner
3. If I Could Have Her Tonight
4. I've Been Waiting for You
5. Old Laughing Lady
6. String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill
7. Here We Are in the Years
8. What Did You Do to My Life?
9. I've Loved Her So Long
10. Last Trip to Tulsa

His self-titled 1968 solo debut album, following his exit from Buffalo Springfield, bridged what was and what would be. Although the eponymous release was his only album not to chart, it featured the classic track The Loner and marked the launching point of an illustrious solo career. Neil Young was followed by the three acknowledged masterpieces, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush and Harvest.

Track Listing:
1. Emperor of Wyoming
2. Loner
3. If I Could Have Her Tonight
4. I've Been Waiting for You
5. Old Laughing Lady
6. String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill
7. Here We Are in the Years
8. What Did You Do to My Life?
9. I've Loved Her So Long
10. Last Trip to Tulsa

Pressed at Pallas

Track Listing:
1. Down By The River - from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969
2. Cowgirl In The Sand - from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969
3. Cinnamon Girl - from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969
4. Helpless - with Crosby, Stills and Nash, from Déjà Vu, 1970
5. After The Gold Rush - from After The Goldrush, 1970
6. Only Love Can Break Your Heart - from After The Goldrush, 1970)
7. Southern Man - from After The Goldrush, 1970)
8. Ohio - with Crosby, Stills and Nash, from Four Way Street, 1971
9. The Needle and the Damage Done - from Harvest, 1972
10. Old Man - from Harvest, 1972
11. Heart Of Gold - from Harvest, 1972
12. Like A Hurricane - from American Stars 'n' Bars, 1977
13. Comes A Time - from Comes A Time, 1978
14. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) - from Rust Never Sleeps, 1979
15. Rockin' In The Free World - from Freedom, 1989
16. Harvest Moon - from Harvest Moon, 1992

Classic Records, in cooperation with Reprise Records and Neil Young are proud to present Prairie Wind as a Deluxe 2 LP gatefold edition. Included is an 18 page 12 x 12 booklet with lyrics and photos printed with soy based inks on paper that is from sustainable forests and Rain Forest Alliance certified. The LP mastering and cutting was done at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood by Chris Bellman using the original 1/2 analog master tapes with plating and pressing on Classic's proprietary 200g QUIEX Super Vinyl Profile at RTI. The sound is, to put it bluntly, without compare and sets a new standard for sonic achievement. Is this Grammy worthy? You bet it is.

As an added bonus, side 4 of the set is an interview with Neil discussing guitars, equipment, music, musicians and musical arrangers among others things. Not to be missed!

Track Listing:
LP1
1. The Painter
2. No Wonder
3. Falling Off The Face Of The Earth
4. Far From Home
5. It's A Dream
6. Prairie Wind
7. Here For You
LP2
1. This Old Guitar
2. He Was The King
3. When God Made Me
4. An Interview With Neil Young

Pressed at Pallas in Germany

Cut at Bernie Grundman's by Chris Bellman

The first album of original music from Neil Young and Crazy Horse in almost a decade, including over 85 minutes of music. Psychedelic Pill pokes down pathways that have been hinted at before in this teaming, but never fully explored. New textures emerge in the music, new landscapes in the lyrics. In many ways, Psychedelic Pill rounds out an array of probing works with prominent autobiographical threads.

Whether as a singer, a songwriter or a guitarist, Neil Young has been one of the most influential and important artists of the rock era. Blending folk, country and rock, the acoustic and the electric, the melancholy and the hopeful, Young has been an icon for the uncompromising and unpredictable since the 1960s.

LP2
4. Psychedelic Pill (NY Mix)
5. Ramada Inn (going south)
6. Born In Ontario
7. Twisted Road
8. She's Always Dancing
9. For The Love of Man

LP3
10. Walk Like A Giant

Track Listing:
1. Good To See You
2. Silver & Gold
3. Daddy Went Walkin'
4. Buffalo Springfield Again
5. The Great Divide
6. Horseshoe Man
7. Red Sun
8. Distant Camera
9. Razor Love
10. Without Rings

A more intimate live portrayal of solo Neil Young doesn't exist. Recorded on a TEAC 2-track tape recorder at Canterbury House on November 9-10, 1968, Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968 is, for all intents and purposes, the start of the iconic singer-songwriter's solo career. It's a unique document not in just Young's catalog, but in all of music.

Armed with just an acoustic guitar and his voice, Young charms an intimate crowd on his own terms with renditions of many now-classic songs that hadn't yet even been released. Fortunately, for everyone, the performances are captured in you-are-there sound. Experienced on this exquisite analog pressing, sonics don't get any more realistic. Acoustic properties and liveliness abound. The wood-bodied tones of the guitar, inflections of Young's speech, and warble of his timbre come to life as if you have been transported back to those two cool, fall November days in Michigan.

In addition to songs such as "Birds," "Winterlong," and "The Last Trip to Tulsa," an extremely rare portrait of Young emerges. Evidently nervous about the gigs (he just broke apart from Buffalo Springfield), the 22-year-old Canadian is actually talkative and giddy, two characteristics that soon left his onstage repertoire. We hear stories of his job in a bookstore to his thoughts on songwriting amidst an unvarnished, up-close presentation that, by some fortunate stroke of karma, was documented for everyone to hear.

Trust us: Young's records are long-time favorites among audiophiles for their music and sound qualities. Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968 rivals the very best of the legend's performances and will make you and your stereo glow with happiness.

Do not miss this pressing. It is seriously THAT good!

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Emcee Intro
2. On The Way Home
3. Songwriting Rap
4. Mr. Soul
5. Recording Rap
6. Expecting to Fly
7. The Last Trip to Tulsa
8. Bookstore Rap
9. The Loner
10. "I Used To..." Rap
11. Birds
12. Winterlong (Excerpt) & Out of My Mind Intro
13. Out of My Mind

LP2
1. If I Could Have Her Tonight
2. Classical Gas Rap
3. Sugar Mountain - Intro.
4. Sugar Mountain
5. I've Been Waiting For You
6. Songs Rap
7. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
8. Tuning Rap & The Old Laughing Lady - Intro.
9. The Old Laughing Lady
10. Broken Arrow

Zuma is Neil Young's second 1975 release, coming a mere 5 months after Tonight's the Night. Named after Zuma Beach in Malibu, the album finds Young backed by a new look Crazy Horse where the late Danny Whitten is replaced by Frank Sampedro. Features the extended tracks "Cortez the Killer" and "Danger Bird" which wonderfully highlight the grand Crazy Horse tradition and the final gem, "Through My Sails" which is an aborted Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young track from a 1974 recording session in Hawaii.

Track Listing:
1. Don't Cry No Tears
2. Danger Bird
3. Pardon My Heart
4. Looking For A Love
5. Barstool Blues
6. Stupid Girl
7. Drive Back
8. Cortez The Killer
9. Through My Sails