[2019-06-07] Neil Young And The Stray Gators "Tuscaloosa" 1973 concert (Reprise/Rhino)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:24 pm

Description
Tuscaloosa is an 11-track live album from Neil Young and The Stray Gators, recorded at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa on February 5th 1973. The Stray Gators backed Neil occasionally in the ‘70’s and are Tim Drummond, Kenny Buttrey, Jack Nitzsche and Ben Keith. The album was produced by Neil Young and Elliot Mazer and mixed by John Hanlon. It is mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman from the original analogue tapes

Tuscaloosa features live versions of songs from Neil’s debut album (track 1), plus classic songs from two of his biggest selling albums: After The Goldrush and Harvest. The album also features the title track from the live album Time Fades Away that would be released later in 1973, and songs from Neil’s classic album Tonight’s The Night that would not be released until 1975.

Tracklist
1. Here We Are 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

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R21985Y/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:25 pm

Neil told Rolling Stone that this archive release is coming soon:

Quote:

It’s [a concert] from the period right around Harvest and Tonight’s the Night. For me, it’s edgy. It’s like those mellow songs with an edge. It’s really trippy to be down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and singing those songs from Harvest and the songs that we were doing for Time Fades Away before it came out. I found this thing and it had such a great attitude to it. I just loved the whole night, so I put that together with [engineer] John Hanlon. That will be our next album. Then we’ll do the other one and the other ones after that. There’s just so many that I keep changing my mind all the time. It’s good. It’s good to be able to change your mind. [Note: The February 5th, 1973, Tuscaloosa, Alabama show has never circulated in bootleg circles and fans have never even reconstructed the complete set list.]

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:26 pm

And here's the first audio sample:

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

Thanks Linda!

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

no 'new' songs on the setlist, interesting.

young throws a new tune or 2 in there to sell it to those who already have 'old man' and 'heart of gold' 5 or more times.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:23 pm

Renny wrote:

no 'new' songs on the setlist, interesting.

young throws a new tune or 2 in there to sell it to those who already have 'old man' and 'heart of gold' 5 or more times.

It's from 1973.

Jim Wilkin · **Joined:** 20 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 454

Linda wrote:

Renny wrote:

no 'new' songs on the setlist, interesting.

young throws a new tune or 2 in there to sell it to those who already have 'old man' and 'heart of gold' 5 or more times.

It's from 1973.

My take was that Renny meant no "unreleased" songs in the setlist (since Neil is said to have hundreds of songs in that category).

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

I have many 1973 bootlegs with woeful sound, but they are still some of the best live music Neil has ever played

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:05 am

The vinyl version is up:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QYQ51CZ/?tag=imwan-20

Awaiting an Amazon pre-order link for the CD version.

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

I'm waiting for the Pono version.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

Jim Wilkin wrote:

Linda wrote:

Renny wrote:

no 'new' songs on the setlist, interesting.

young throws a new tune or 2 in there to sell it to those who already have 'old man' and 'heart of gold' 5 or more times.

It's from 1973.

My take was that Renny meant no "unreleased" songs in the setlist (since Neil is said to have hundreds of songs in that category).

ARK · **Joined:** 23 Mar 2013 **Posts:** 1320

In for this one for sure

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:17 pm

Here we are! The CD is now up for pre-order:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R21985Y/?tag=imwan-20

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

There is a digital single out of Don't Be Denied. I haven't heard it yet.

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:03 pm

The YouTube embed of that track is upthread.

Seth Hollander · **Joined:** 23 May 2015 **Posts:** 58

All shows on this tour opened with "Tell Me Why" and had an identical Stray Gators set: The Loner / New Mama / Alabama / Don't Be Denied / Lookout Joe / Time Fades Away / Cinnamon Girl / Southern Man, followed by an encore of Are You Ready For The Country? or Last Dance or both.

So this release omits Tell Me Why, The Loner, Cinnamon Girl, Southern Man, Are You Ready For the Country and/or Last Dance.
Only about half the Stray Gators set is on this CD. Never trust Neil to do an archival project! As annoying as Jimmy Page!

Like Hitchhiker and Songs For Judy, this release is easy for me to not buy as the rumours of Archive 2 grow. These three should be in that box anyway and I would feel really bad if I actually payed for them twice.

I really enjoyed Bluenote Cafe, but I would have rather bought a Deluxe Edition Box version containing the complete recordings of the shows that were excerpted for the actual 2Cd set.

[2019-06-07] Neil Young And The Stray Gators "Tuscaloosa" 1973 concert (Reprise/Rhino)

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