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Neil Young Hitchhiker 1976 2017

Neil Young Hitchhiker 1976 2017 On August 11th, 1976, Neil Young walked into Indigo Studios in Malibu and recorded 10 songs with his acoustic guitar. The results of that session are collected on  Hitchhiker , a new Young LP due out on September 8th.  Many of the songs have surfaced on previous Young albums, albeit in different forms: "Human Highway" appeared two years later on 1978s  Comes a Time , while "Powderfinger," "Ride My Llama" and "Pocahontas" showed up on  Rust Never Sleeps (1979), and "Captain Kennedy" came out on 1980s  Hawks & Doves .  Hitchhiker  will also contain a pair of never-before-released songs � "Hawaii," "a soaring ballad," and "Give Me Strength," which Young has occasionally performed live.  Young recorded  Hitchhiker  with David Briggs, who helped produce many of Youngs most famous albums, including  Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere ,  After the Gold Rush  and  On the Beach . Joh...