Neil Young – After The Gold Rush (1970/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – After The Gold Rush (1970/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:04 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

In the 15 months between the release of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush, Neil Young issued a series of recordings in different styles that could have prepared his listeners for the differences between the two LPs. His two compositions on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album Déjà Vu, “Helpless” and “Country Girl,” returned him to the folk and country styles he had pursued before delving into the hard rock of Everybody Knows; two other singles, “Sugar Mountain” and “Oh, Lonesome Me,” also emphasized those roots. But “Ohio,” a CSNY single, rocked as hard as anything on the second album. After the Gold Rush was recorded with the aid of Nils Lofgren, a 17-year-old unknown whose piano was a major instrument, turning one of the few real rockers, “Southern Man” (which had unsparing protest lyrics typical of Phil Ochs), into a more stately effort than anything on the previous album and giving a classic tone to the title track, a mystical ballad that featured some of Young’s most imaginative lyrics and became one of his most memorable songs. But much of After the Gold Rush consisted of country-folk love songs, which consolidated the audience Young had earned through his tours and recordings with CSNY; its dark yet hopeful tone matched the tenor of the times in 1970, making it one of the definitive singer/songwriter albums, and it has remained among Young’s major achievements. –William Ruhlmann

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Neil Young – A Letter Home (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Neil Young – A Letter Home (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:11 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

During the 2014 promo campaign for Pono, his high-end digital audio device, Neil Young called his forthcoming album A Letter Home “an art project,” which is an appropriate term for this curious collection of covers from his contemporaries. It’s not so much that the choice of songs is unusual — nearly all of them are from the ’60s and ’70s, years when Young was also active, but a handful (“Crazy,” “Since I Met You Baby,” “I Wonder If I Care as Much”) date from the late ’50s or early ’60s — but the recording method. Young headed down to Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville where Jack installed a refurbished Voice-O-Graph booth, a device designed to allow a user to “Make Your Own Record” by cutting a song or message directly to vinyl. These contraptions were designed in 1947 and were once a common sight in arcades and fairs but they died away in the ’70s, turning into an artifact of a weird old Americana beloved by both Young and White. Neil decided to use the Voice-O-Graph to record a full album, an experiment that’s strictly about the method of recording, not the music itself. By design, the Voice-O-Graph allows for no overdubs — it captures everything that happens in the booth and nothing more — so the performances are intimate and sometimes rushed, qualities that are alternately enhanced and undercut by the thin, crackly recording. This aural affectation can be affecting — in particular, his readings of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain” and “If You Can Read My Mind” are quite sweet, as is Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country,” while there’s a genuine pang of pathos lying in Bert Jansch’s “Needle of Death” — but the trebly, wavy audio can also seem cacophonous, whether it’s capturing Neil alone (Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown”) or in tandem with White (a version of Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” that always seems just on the verge of falling apart, which could be perceived as a compliment depending on your view). Usually, the flaws of A Letter Home can be pegged on the archaic recording technology — only a couple of performances feel shambolic — but Young is also having fun with what the Voice-O-Graph meant, opening the album with a wry, winding spoken letter to his departed mother and then addressing another missive to her later on the record. These words are simultaneously sentimental and impish, a wink to the audience that Young is in on the joke but also doesn’t quite consider A Letter Home a joke. Sure, there’s artifice and humor here, but there’s also heart, and this blend of emotions is what makes A Letter Home one of Neil Young’s quintessential, endearingly odd records. –Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Neil Young – Summer Songs (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Neil Young – Summer Songs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:28 minutes | 370 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise Records

Neil Young gave fans of his ‘Archives’ project an extra-special Christmas gift this year, dropping the eight-track ‘Summer Songs’ record that he first teased last month.

The archival album was initially recorded in 1987, tracked at the Broken Arrow Ranch in Redwood City, California. It’s unclear who Young made the album with – if anyone – but every instrument played on it was played by Young himself. The version released on Saturday (December 25) was produced by the Volume Dealers and mastered by Tim Mulligan.
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Neil Young – Landing On Water (1986/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Neil Young – Landing On Water (1986/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:58 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen

Landing on Water is the 15th studio album by Neil Young. The album was released on July 21, 1986, by Geffen Records. Several of the songs on the album were resurrected from Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s failed 1984 sessions – a set of sessions where, according to longtime producer David Briggs, the musicians “played like monkeys”.
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Neil Young – Colorado (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Neil Young – Colorado (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 50:28 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise Records

Colorado is the 39th studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young (and his first studio album with Crazy Horse since 2012), released on October 25, 2019, by Reprise Records. The album was preceded by the singles “Milky Way” (released on August 30, 2019) and “Rainbow of Colors” (released on September 12, 2019) and is dedicated to Elliot Roberts, Young’s manager since 1967, who died aged 76 on June 21, 2019.It was also the first album to feature Nils Lofgren as a member of Crazy Horse since 1971.
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Neil Young – Somewhere Under the Rainbow 1973 (Live) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Somewhere Under the Rainbow 1973 (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:28:08 minutes | 2,96 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

In a night of high-wire performances and semi-unhinged sonics, the concert has taken on a mythic legend in the past 50 years. All the musicians were in a free-form state of mind and swung for the fences on every track. The double-disc album captures a sound and soul that still resonates loudly for its daring, and among Neil Young fans is an achievement that is as unconventional as it is unforgettable. Recording engineer Pete Long’s liner notes dive right into the thick of the controversial concert, and help listeners relive a place and time that won’t be repeated.

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Molina, Talbot, Lofgren & Young – All Roads Lead Home (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Molina, Talbot, Lofgren & Young – All Roads Lead Home (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:58 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shaky Pictures Records

An album born out of pure inspiration as well as social necessity. Molina, Talbot and Lofgren kept recording their original songs, each with other musicians and in various locations during the pandemic years. They were forced to change from working as a trio with Neil Young, and used that opportunity to see what their new individual configurations would lead to.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – World Record (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – World Record (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:44 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Given Neil Young’s range and output, it’s just as helpful to describe what World Record isn’t before getting to what it is: It’s not a previously unreleased studio album from the 1970s; an instrumental guitar album a la Le Noise or Arc; an Old Ways-style country album; a romantic stroll through Harvest Moon balladry; a Devo-inspired electronic rock album like Trans; or a mad-as-hell-not-gonna-take-it-anymore rager Ragged Glory.

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Neil Young – Harvest (50th Anniversary Edition) (1972/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Neil Young – Harvest (50th Anniversary Edition) (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:49 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

As much for the wider public as for his great many fans, Neil Young’s Harvest represents the pinnacle of his rich discography from the seventies. Founded upon country-rock and melancholic folk, the so-called Loner’s art shines ever brightly throughout this fourth album, released back in February 1972. It is a gold mine full of bucolic, pastoral gems, recorded with a new group of brilliant musicians called the Stray Gators, with Ben Keith on steel guitar, Kenny Buttrey on drums, Tim Drummond on bass, and the great Jack Nitzsche on piano and arrangement. Harvest, which frequently displays his tumultuous relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress (mother of his first son Zeke) also incorporates some impressive somber moments, such as in ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’ – a stunning ballad about his guitarist Danny Whitten’s heroin addiction, who died of an overdose in November that same year, just after being kicked out of the band by Neil Young.

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Neil Young + Promise of the Real – Noise and Flowers (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young + Promise of the Real – Noise and Flowers (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Neil Young + Promise of the Real’s live album ‘Noise & Flowers’ captures the group in all their glory on their 2019 European tour. The release will be accompanied by a concert film that shares the same title and is included in the album’s 2xLP+CD+Blu-ray Deluxe Edition. ‘Noise & Flowers’ documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young’s lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at the age of 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young approached each show as a celebratory memorial service to honour his late friend. In paying tribute to the manager who guided Young’s career for over a half-century, ‘Noise & Flowers’ explores all corners of his vast discography. It balances all-timer anthems with rarely aired ’70s deep cuts and ’90s gems. His frequent backing band since 2015, Promise of the Real effectively bridges the extremes in Young’s sound, infusing his raging rockers and country serenades with their casual brilliance and telepathic intuition.

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Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Toast (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Toast (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:02 minutes | 1,94 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Aptly, the album is heavy and distressed, brimming with electrifying tension. Even its sweet-sounding opening track, ‘Quit’, features the refrain, ‘Don’t say you love me’. ‘Standing in the Light of Love’ and ‘Goin’ Home’ let the Horse off the tether in fields of overdriven guitar; an out-of-work logger grapples with his faith on the breakneck ‘Timberline’; and on ‘Gateway of Love’, Young dreams of a less painful future over a hypnotizing 10 minutes, leading into the somber, brokedown ‘How Ya Doin’?’ The songwriter sums up the album best during its shadowy finale ‘Boom Boom Boom’: ‘All I got is a broken heart, and I don’t try to hide it when I play my guitar’.

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Neil Young & The Restless – Eldorado (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Neil Young & The Restless – Eldorado (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 25:42 minutes | 295 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Eldorado is an EP originally released only in Japan and Australia by Neil Young backed by The Restless, which consisted of Chad Cromwell and Rick Rosas.

It contains different mixes of three songs that subsequently appeared on Young’s 1989 album Freedom, “Don’t Cry,” “On Broadway,” and “Eldorado,” and two tracks not available on any other recording, “Cocaine Eyes” and “Heavy Love.”

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Neil Young – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 (Live) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:45 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

The album is the last US show of Young’s 1971 solo tour. The original bootleg artwork has also been replicated wherever possible, lending each release that treasured collector’s vibe and conjuring the era they were first created in. The album is from the original analog masters.

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Neil Young – Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at The Bottom Line) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at The Bottom Line) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:30 minutes | 2,26 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

A recording of Neil Young’s surprise performance at New York’s Bottom Line on May 16, 1974 has been circulating in fan circles for decades, but now they’re finally releasing it officially as part of Young’s new official bootleg series. He calls it The Bottom Line – “Citizen Kane Jr. Blues.”

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill (2012) Blu-ray 1080i AVC LPCM 2.0 + BDRip 720p

Title: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Rock

Production/Label: Reprise
Duration: 1:25:18 + 00:37:08
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG4 AVC
Audio codec: LPCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 22049 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 43.73 GB

Recorded right after Americana at Audio Casa Blanca, this Blu-ray release contains a high resolution 192kHz/24bit full fidelity version of the album Psychedelic Pill and will include videos for each of the songs.

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