Great news! Just received this from Neil Young:



Neil Young will release Live At The Cellar Door, the latest in his Archives Performance Series, on November 26th on Reprise Records. The album collects recordings made during Young's intimate six-show solo stand at The Cellar Door in Washington D.C. between November 30th and December 2nd, 1970, a few months after Reprise released his classic third solo album After The Gold Rush in August.

The album, which features Young performing on acoustic guitar and piano, includes tracks that are interesting for several reasons, such as stunning live versions of songs that appeared on After The Gold Rush ("Tell Me Why," "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," "Birds," "Don't Let It Bring You Down" and the title track) and solo performances of the Buffalo Springfield songs "Expecting To Fly" (from their 1967 second album Buffalo Springfield Again), "I Am A Child" (from their third and final album Last Time Around and Young's 1977 Decade compilation), and "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong," from their 1966 self-titled debut.

In addition, Live At The Cellar Door features early, raw performances of songs that wouldn't appear until subsequent Young albums, including the rarity "Bad Fog Of Loneliness" (which appears on Live At Massey Hall '71 - released in 2007-but was previously unreleased until the studio band version was included on Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972), "Old Man" (released two years later on 1972's Harvest album), a rare solo performance of "Cinnamon Girl" on piano (the full band version appears on Young's 1969 second solo album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere), and "Down By The River," also from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.

Live At The Cellar Door was recorded by Henry Lewy and produced by Young.

As with Young's previous releases in the Archives series, Live At The Cellar Door will be released digitally, on CD, and on 180-gram vinyl (mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and pressed at Pallas in Germany).

The track-listing for Live At The Cellar Door is as follows:

Side One:
Tell Me Why
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
After The Gold Rush
Expecting To Fly
Bad Fog Of Loneliness
Old Man
Birds

Side One:
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
See The Sky About To Rain
Cinnamon Girl
I Am A Child
Down By The River
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong

CD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G34XP3Q/?tag=imwan-20

Vinyl
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DEPVNZO/?tag=imwan-20

On the one hand, I'm sure I'll want this; but we're starting to get duplication (Massey & at least one other who's name I don't remember at the moment).

Cool. I wonder if these were the shows when Nils Lofgren introduced himself to Young.

I only went to the Cellar Door a few times, but that cover photo brings back some nice memories.

Apparently it was in 1969 that Lofgren met Young at the Door.

Rolling Stone reports updated release date of Dec. 10.

No DVD-A or BluRay ?

once again, out of nowhere, neil young with a new release....he is amazing.

Wow, this will be really special I hope...especially for those of us from DC..

For those that don't know, this is a very small club...fire marshal says 150, but usually closer to 200 for a show, but it was.... shall we say 'intimate'...

Really looking forward to this.....

I know I will be getting some hi res version; the dvd-a of Massey had awesome sound.

I'm with Geff on this one; I am really excited about more vintage live material from this time period, but there appears to be a fair amount of overlap with "Sugar Mountain (Live at Canterbury House 1968)", "Live at The Riverboat (Toronto 1969)", and "Live at Massey Hall (Toronto 1971)"

It's difficult to keep straight which is which, at this point.

And hopefully, the "raps" and patter between songs will be indexed separately, like was done on "Sugar Mountain". Neil's long, drawn-out stories are OK to hear once or twice, but most of the time I just want to hear only the songs

NP, thanks for taking the time to get the titles I was too lazy to look up! I own all 3.

Why are there two side ones? Is this Neil up to his usual tricks?

Well, a CD is only one side, unless it's a dual disc.

Bump: Added pre-order links to the first post. The vinyl version has two "Side One"s , and all of the same tracks also appear on the CD version. As John H. pointed out, the album has been pushed back to December 10th.

That is odd that there is no hi res option, considering Neil's release history of the last few years.

That will be a "Pono Only" exclusive with bonus tracks....

Will Pono offer video as well?
I thought Neil was a fan of BluRay, that sure didn't last long.

just neil being neil.

i remember when he touted the wonders of HDCD.

I think Joseph was kidding ... I hope.

Yes, I was.But I would not be shocked to see it actually happen.

Very retro, very Neil.....an A side & B side for a CD

Duplication or not, I'm up for any Neil Young material from this time period.