![]() ![]() It’s Born To Run, though, that’s the biggest find. Boxcar seems to have been kicking about in the Young repertoire since 1985’s Old Ways, before finally entering the public domain on 2007’s Chrome Dreams II: this 1990 version favours strafed electric guitar rather than banjo for its hobofolk elegy, and has the edge. The other two bonus tracks are unreleased, though you might know the songs. "This band isn't just me and some other guys." Neil Young's Ducks fly again. Instead we get a couple of previously-released B-sides from the sessions, notably the goofy paean to barnyard sex, Don’t Spook The Horse, where Crazy Horse slope into one of their wonderfully clunky approximations of country. ![]() ![]() That’s the case with three-quarters of Volume 5: 1989’s rapprochement with rock, Freedom one of his best live albums, 1991’s Crazy Horse-rampant Weld and Weld’s avant-feedback coda/ collage, Arc. 1990’s Ragged Glory, though, comes with four extra tracks, and an expanded name: Ragged Glory – Smell The Horse. It isn’t quite the ‘Ragged Glory II’ that Young promised in 2018, with 38 minutes of unheard music. For those of you keeping track, it’s a curious one: the “Official Release Series” strand has previously featured straight, remastered versions of Neil albums, with no extras or unreleased material. It’s this exceptional phase of an exceptional, if not always consistent, career that is the focus of the latest hefty product off the Neil Young Archives conveyor belt. “At a point with Arc I said, OK, we’re off and we’re flying, this is distorted and grunged out to the max,” he remembered. In London ostensibly to promote the hushed Harvest Moon, Young also found himself reflecting on the significantly noisier phase just passed: an intense three years in which Young had reconnected with his ur-rocker side, recalled Crazy Horse, and struck a chord with a new generation of plaid-wearing guitar heroes. “DON QUIGRUNGIO,” Neil Young renamed himself, talking to NME’s Gavin Martin in November 1992. ![]()
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