Disc One
1) Born To Run (rehearsals 1990)
2) Forever Young (San Francisco 11-3-91)
3) Bad Fog Of Loneliness (Studio 1973)
4) It Might Have Been (Cincinnati 2-25-70)
5) Everybody's Alone (San Francisco 2-19-70)
6) War Song (Studio 1972)
7) Johnny (NYC 10-1-83, played on the PA after the show)
8) Goodbye Dick (Uniondale, NY 8-14-74)
9) Pushed It Over The End (Chicago 8-27-74)
10) Everything Is Broken (Mtn View 10-28-89)
11) Ordinary People (Wantagh, NY 8-27-88)
12) Farmers' Song (Bristow, VA 9-12-99)
13) Berlin (West Berlin 10-19-82)
14) Nothing Is Perfect (St. Paul 9-1-85)
15) Come Along And Say You Will (Toronto 1-15-73)
Disc two
1) If You Got Love (Goteburg 10-8-82)
2) Sweet Joni (Bakersfield 3-11-73)
3) There Goes My Babe (studio demo 1966)
4) Dance, Dance, Dance (London 2-23-71)
5) Soul Of A Woman (Dallas 7-15-83)
6) Your Love Is Good To Me (Santa Cruz 2-6-84 early)
7) Do You Wanna Dance? (Dayton 9-18-83)
8) Hello Lonely Woman (Wantagh, NY 8-27-88)
9) Lady Wingshot (Eureka, CA 2-18-89)
10) Fool For Your Love (Detroit 9-4-88)
11) Aurora (single demo 7-23-63)
12) Live To Ride (Torhout 7-3-93)
13) Big Room (Santa Cruz 11-2-87 late)
14) So Tired (Santa Cruz 2-7-84 late)
15) Grey Riders (St. Paul 9-1-85)
16) Rock, Rock, Rock (Santa Cruz 2-7-84 late)
17) Bright Sunny Day (Clarkston, MI 9-18-78)
18) Leavin' The Top Forty Behind (Studio 1985)
19) I Ain't Got The Blues (demo Nov 1965)
Disc three
1) Love Hotel (Birmingham, UK 9-24-82)
2) Kansas (Oakland 3-20-99)
3) Homefires (Upper Darby, PA 3-24-92)
4) Love Art Blues (Seattle 7-9-74)
5) Separate Ways (Torhout 7-3-93)
6) Crime Of The Heart (Albuquerque 10-25-88)
7) Bad News (Wantagh, NY 8-27-88)
8) Stranger In Paradise (Mtn View 11-6-93)
9) Run Around Babe (demo Nov 1965)
10) Find Another Shoulder (Santa Cruz 11-2-87)
11) Your Love Again (outtake 1985)
12) Guilty Train (Boston 11-22-76)
13) Dog House (Detroit 9-4-88)
14) Windward Passage (Santa Cruz 8-22-77)
15) No One Seems To Know (Santa Cruz 1-5-83)
16) Extra, Extra (demo Nov 1965)
17) Give Me Strength (Chicago 11-15-76 late)
18) Walking After Midnight (NYC 4-19-88 late)
Disc four
1) Rainin' In Paradise (Studio 1982)
2) Amber Jean (Austin 9-25-84)
3) Hawaiian Sunrise (Long Island 9-8-74)
4) One More Sign (Studio 1966)
5) Winter Winds/Turbine (Berkeley 10-3-80)
6) Hillbilly Band (Costa Mesa, CA 10-24-84)
7) Modern World (Santa Cruz 5-19-97)
8) Road Of Plenty (Minneapolis 10-17-86)
9) Beautiful Bluebird (outtake 1985)
10) High Heels (Santa Cruz 11-2-87 late)
11) I Shall Be Released (Mtn View 10-30-99)
12) That's All Right (Dallas 7-15-83)
13) Sultan (single 7-23-63)
14) The Rent Is Always Due (demo Nov 1965)
15) Hitchhiker (Saratoga Springs, NY 6-29-92)
16) Time Off For Good Behavior (outtake 1985)
Disc Five
1) Sixty To Zero (Toronto 8-19-88)
2) Box Car (Spokane 2-23-89)
3) Traces (Studio 1973)
4) Sad Movies (London, 3-28-76)
5) I'm Goin' (Wantagh, NY 9-27-88)
6) I Wonder Why (Studio 1986)
7) Don't Pity Me, Babe (demo 1965)
8) Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Santa Cruz 6-13-93)
9) Evening Coconut (Springfield, MA 6-27-76)
10) Fingers (Austin 9-25-84)
11) I Wonder (Studio/Winnipeg/4-23-64?)
12) Mediterranean (Studio, mid 1970s)
13) Greensleeves (NYC 5-16-74)
14) Dead Man, Acoustic Theme (promo, 1995)
Disc One:
Born To Run: Neil. The Horse. Feedback.
Forever Young: Neil's performance with The Grateful Dead at the Bill Graham tribute.
Bad Fog Of Loneliness: An outtake from the original Tonight's The Night acetate. This tune was also played several times in 1970 and in 1989 with The Restless.
It Might Have Been: There are several very nice performances of this tune with the Harvesters in '84. This performance is from 1970 with the Danny Whitten Crazy Horse, featuring Jack Nitzsche on electric piano. The tune was also a favorite from the Squires days. Writer: unknown.
Everybody's Alone: KQED studios performance.
War Song: An out-of-print single billed as Neil Young/Graham Nash.
Johnny: A studio-recorded tune heavily laden with synthesizers and a drum machine. It was played over the PA after several Shocking Pinks shows.
Goodbye Dick: This would have been great on the soundtrack to the movie Dick. Sorry the sound quality is so poor; I couldn't find anything better.
Pushed It Over The End: Another song about Patty Hearst? Neil introduces this song during the Bottom Line performance as "Citizen Kane Junior Blues."
Everything Is Broken: Another Dylan cover. This time with Tom Petty and Sammy Hagar to kick off Bridge '89.
Ordinary People: a fan favorite, though only performed a couple of dozen times.
Farmers' Song: The latest in a series of versions that date back to Farm Aid '86.
Berlin: A one-off performance with The Trans Band.
Nothing Is Perfect: a song that was debuted at Live Aid.
Come Along And Say You Will: Played quite a few times with the Stray Gators during the '73 tour. Sometimes called Lonely Weekend.
Disc Two:
If You Got Love: a live version of the tune listed on everyone's vinyl cover sleave for Trans but not on the album.
Sweet Joni: a one-time performance.
There Goes My Babe: A solo acoustic demo recorded in the Buffalo Springfield era.
Dance, Dance, Dance: often performed '70 to '99 but never released. Crazy Horse (minus Neil) did release their own version on their self-titled album.
Soul Of A Woman: Neil performed this one over 150 times, all in the '80s with the Trans band, the International Harvesters, and the Bluenotes. There are some excellent versions of all of those. Here's a solo version from the Shocking Pinks tour that I'm kind of partial to.
Your Love: Somewhere between the Shocking Pinks and the International Harvesters, Neil had a go with the Horse. They played a few gigs in Santa Cruz at the Catalyst Club where the Ducks played. There were several new tunes introduced, some of which eventually showed up on Landing On Water. Here's another.
Do You Wanna Dance?: Fun with the Pinks. This is Vito Toledo, signing off.
Hello Lonely Woman: a song dating way back to the Squires days, revived during the Bluenotes tour.
Lady Wingshot: Originally performed with the Gone With The Wind Orchestra in '77; this is from a much later performance. The show is the one in Eureka, California right after Neil lost his dog Elvis.
Fool For Your Love: Bluenotes version of the blues.
Aurora: along with The Sultan, the earliest recording in this collection.
Live To Ride: Rocker performed exclusively in 1993 with Booker T. and the MG's.
Big Room: Bluenotes!
So Tired: Another one from the early '84 Crazy Horze Catalyst shows.
Grey Riders: Think the International Harvesters couldn't rock? Try this tune out. This was a show closer during the late summer '85 tour.
Rock, Rock, Rock: A mid-80's minor anthem about, ahem, Rock. More from the early '84 experiments with Crazy Horse.
Bright Sunny Day: This was almost left off because the recording is so poor. You get some idea of what the tune must have sounded like though, I think.
Leavin' The Top Forty Behind: Happy birthday. If the melody sounds familiar, compare with "The Emperor Of Wyoming" on the first solo record.
I Ain't Got The Blues: demo at Electra records by a very young, very nervous Neil.
Disc Three:
Love Hotel: Performed only once in front of an audience, this is it. Not the best recording, but a nice little ditty.
Kansas: This song dates back to the mid-1970's. It was never played live until 1999. Neil referred to it once early in the '99 tour while looking up something else in his lyrics book he carried. Someone asked him to play Kansas and he performed it a few times later in the tour.
Homefires: Another tune dating from the mid 70's, here's a performance from the '92 solo tour. Neil said in 1997 that this song doesn't apply anymore.
Love Art Blues: CSN provide some nice harmonies for this tune Neil wrote about being torn between his music life and his personal life.
Separate Ways: Yet another tune from the mid 70's, this one not heard by the public until the '93 tour with Booker T. and the MG's. Pretty sad song really, kind of a companion tune to Already One in my mind.
Crime Of The Heart: Listen for the reference to the Cindy Lauper song, Girl's Just Want To Have Fun. One of the songs that would make a live Bluenotes record special.
Bad News: This song really captures what the energy and soul of the Bluenotes. If you've seen the "This Note's For You" video, a snippet of this song is in it.
Stranger In Paradise: A cover of a classic show tune, played at one of the Bridge School Benefits.
Run Around Babe: Early Neil.
Find Another Shoulder: Early Neil, but played by the Bluenotes in '88. I think this one dates back to the Squires days.
Your Love Again: One of the many tunes recorded for the Old Ways album. This one didn't quite make it out to the public, at least not to your major record stores.
Guilty Train: Not really a complete song, just a snippet that was played at the end of "Old Laughing Lady" during the '76 tour and on some later tours as well.
Dog House: A novelty tune. Kinda humorous. You be the judge.
Windward Passage: Instrumental tune played with the Ducks in '77.
No One Seems To Know: Still another mid-70's tune, played live in '76. This one is from early '83 though.
Extra Extra: One of the better tunes from the Electra demos.
Give Me Strength: Yep, another one from the mid-70s, this one actually from a performance in '76.
Walking After Midnight: Played only once, I think. One of the many Bluenotes tunes found in this collection. In fact, if you took all the Bluenotes tunes contained herein and compiled them together, you would have one heck of an album.
Disc Four:
Raining In Paradise: Positive uplifting theme; finding the rainbow in the rain after chasing the sun "half way around the world." This outtake has been circulating for years.
Amber Jean: Let's see, you have My Boy about Zeke, Transformer Man about Ben; here's one for Amber Jean.
Hawaiian Sunrise: Catchy little CSNY tune from the '74 tour.
One More Sign: Early Studio Demo.
Winter Winds/Turbine: The Hawks And Doves band played once. They included a few previously released tunes, some songs from the upcoming album and this song which was never played again or released.
Hillbilly Band: Here's one that captures the spirit and fun of attending a live performance by the International Harvesters.
Modern World: Introduced with this performance. This tune was played a few times during the H.O.R.D.E. tour of 1997 but not since.
Road Of Plenty: An early version of Eldorado; the first half of this has completely different lyrics than the song that was eventually released.
Beautiful Bluebird: Another outtake from the Old Ways sessions, nice country tune.
High Heels: Neil attended a mini-reunion and played some tunes with his old Squire buddies in 1987. He started remembering some of the tunes they used to play and put some of them in setlists with the Bluenotes later that year. This is one of them.
I Shall Be Released: Dylan cover played at the finale of night one of Bridge '99. Nice duet with Eddie Vedder.
That's All Right: Here's one that the King recorded a couple of years ago in 1955...
Sultan: Along with Aurora, the earliest track in this set. Seventeen year old Neil Young doing an instrumental with his band The Squires.
The Rent Is Always Due: another demo from the Electra sessions.
Hitchhiker: One of the more autobiographical of Neil's songs. Chronicles some of Neil's experiences with pharmaceuticals.
Time Off For Good Behavior: More autobiography; Neil's brother Bob goes to jail...
Disc Five:
Sixty To Zero: All 19 minutes of it; this is the complete song. It's amazing Neil had this one memorized. No wonder he shortened it into Crime In The City. There are some pretty interesting verses here though. I feel bad for the guy who now has no ears.....
Box Car: Train song original with the Restless.
Traces: From the original Tonight's The Night acetate. This one was also played during the 1974 CSNY tour.
Sad Movies: Picture show tune. A favorite, played early in '76.
I'm Goin': A studio version of this was released on the b side of the Ten Men Working single. It's rare enough that it was included here.
I Wonder Why: This one has never been played live. A very private song about the challenges of raising a handicapped child.
Don't Pity Me, Babe: Early demo.
Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay: Written by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper (who plays guitar on the original and here), this song was released on Booker T. & The MG's boxed set, but isn't in Neil's catalog yet.
Evening Coconut: A bright moment from the Stills/Young tour of '76 before Neil quit the tour....
Fingers: Throwaway/novelty tune; kind of entertaining and humorous though.
I Wonder: Let's say you are one of Rassy Young's friends in 1964. You listen to her on the phone talking about her son Neil and his musical combo, the Squires. And she plays a tape of one of their songs on the phone. This is what it would sound like. Recently uncovered from a basement, I'm expecting a clean version of this in the box set.
Mediterranean: Stills was in the studio with Neil when he recorded this extremely rare solo acoustic tune.
Greensleeves: There is a released version of Greensleeves with Neil singing lead on Ben Keith's Christmas album Seven Gates, sung with Christmas lyrics. This one from the famed Bottom Line show has the original, traditional lyrics some say were written by Henry VIII.
Dead Man, Acoustic Theme: How this one didn't get on the soundtrack album is a real mystery. The spoken words here were read by the actor Johnny Depp who stars in the Dead Man movie.