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Fred Neil Sessions 1967

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Fred Neil Sessions 1967 Something happened, yesterday� ... during a quiet, lovely listening session, mostly devoted to the �new� vinyl discs I recently purchased at a local flea market, after some Bach and assorted harpsichord music by Gustav Leonhard, I felt the need to listen to something different� I mean very different.   I browsed in a discs-box and Fred Neil�s � Sessions � on Capitol (1967) re-surfaced.   I immediately recognized it as an original promo pressing with a �free� punched on a cover corner.   I placed the wax on Garrardzilla platter, put the peripheral-ring and the clamp and hand-lowered the Lumiere DST�s diamond tip on the disc.   The vinyl surface wasn�t perfect � i.e. assorted tiny pops and some wear-noise, but� when Fred�s voice began singing and those acoustic guitars interwoving and the low, nicely recorded double-bass also blossomed, it became apparent the surface noises weren�t disturbing the music and listening experience, at all!   T...

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...