Neil Young Announces First Volume of Official ‘Bootleg Series’

By editorial board on August 20, 2021

Carnegie Hall 1970, which has never been heard by the public, is coming out October 1st

Neil Young is kicking off his long-awaited Bootleg Series by releasing his December 4th, 1970 show at New York’s Carnegie Hall. It will come out October 1st on double vinyl, CD, and High-Res Digital Audio.(Rolling Stone)

Young played solo acoustic shows at Carnegie Hall on December 4th and December 5th that year, and the second gig has circulated as a beloved bootleg for decades; it’s now getting its first proper release.

The 23-song set mixes features Buffalo Springfield classics (“I Am a Child,” “Expecting to Fly”) and CSNY tunes (“Ohio,” “Helpless”) with many After the Gold Rush songs (“Tell Me Why,” “Only Love Can Break Your Heart,” “Southern Man,” “After the Gold Rush”). He also played “Old Man,” which wouldn’t appear on record until Harvest in 1972. Check out the above preview of “Cowgirl In The Sand.”

These were the most prominent gigs Young had played up until that point in his career, and he flew out his parents, Scott Young and Rassy Young, to witness them. “We sat, I guess, like visitors from another world,” Scott Young wrote in his 1984 book Neil and Me. “But once the place was dark, we could all see this dark form approaching the front of the stage and then the spotlight came on him: tall and thin, blue jeans, checkered shirt, work boots, dark straight hair to his shoulders or beyond, two acoustic guitars on a rack beside a plain wooden chair, a concert piano to his let. Moving gingerly as if his back was bothering him. No music to play except the songs in his head, all his own.”

Several more volumes of the Bootleg Series are planned for the coming months, including Royce Call 1971, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971, the Rainbow Theater 1973, the Bottom Line 1974, and a 1977 club gig with his short-lived band the Ducks.

“This one — Carnegie Hall, December 4th, 1970, is very special to me,” Young wrote last year on the Neil Young Archives. “Change happens fast. As I have gone through these early bootlegs, Carnegie Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion [2/1/70], Royce Hall [1/30/71], and others, they show a change, something you can hear — an evolution. My first time playing harmonica, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, is heard as well as what the harmonica replaced — heard on earlier shows. That was interesting to me because I don’t remember exactly when I started playing harp until I heard that. At Carnegie Hall, I hear myself doing a new song, one about my ranch I had just moved to — ‘Old Man.’ Time flies.”

Neil Young hasn’t played live since Farm Aid nearly two years ago. He was booked to perform at the upcoming Farm Aid at Hartford, Connecticut’s XFINITY Theatre on September 25th, but he backed out earlier this week due to Covid concerns. He has, however, been busy in the recording studio with Crazy Horse. They’ve released finished work on a new album, but they have yet to announce a release date for it.

 

 

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