Adrian Spinelli February 25, 2021
Willie Nelson has released a second album of Frank Sinatra covers, “That’s Life.” Photo: Rich Fury, Getty Images for NARAS 2019
The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music.
NEW ALBUMS
Neil Young and Crazy Horse, “Way Down in the Rust Bucket” (Reprise)
In November 1990, Neil Young and Crazy Horse came to the Catalyst in Santa Cruz for one of the first shows in support of their recently released album, “Ragged Glory.” Now the entire three-hour-plus set is being put out as a live album with an accompanying concert film in the deluxe box set edition. It wasn’t just that more than a half-dozen songs from “Ragged Glory” debuted to the 800 people at that show — Young also played “Danger Bird” from 1975’s album “Zuma” for the first time. More set highlights include an extended version of “Country Home” and an emotional rendition of “Cortez the Killer” as the set concludes, with Young at his absolute finest on the guitar.