Neil Young is set to release the concert film and live album Young Shakespeare .
The 75-year-old music legend will treat fans to the previously unreleased footage from the 1971 performance, which is the earliest known concert recording of Neil, from his set at The Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut, on March 26.
Originally intended for a presentation on German TV later that year, the recordings will now be made public for the very first time.
The analogue tapes have been dusted off and restored and include acoustic recordings of two ‘After the Gold Rush’ tracks and the likes of ‘Ohio’, ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’, ‘Helpless’, ‘Down by the River’ and ‘Sugar Mountain’, plus tracks from 1972 s seminal LP ‘Harvest’.
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Neil Young To Debut Album Of Unreleased 80s Trans Band Songs
Neil Young has revealed he is working on an album to be called ‘Johnny’s Island’, a collection of unreleased songs from the 1980s featuring the band he used for ‘Trans’.
1982’s ‘Trans’ was Young’s 12th solo album. ‘Trams’ was a departure for Young. It was mainly an electronic album influences by Kratfwerk and Devo. He toured the album in Europe and released a home video titled ‘Neil Young in Berlin’. While the video never made it to DVD it was streaming this weekend on Neil’s website.
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Publishing date: Feb 01, 2021 • February 1, 2021 • 1 minute read • Canadian singer/songwriter Neil Young. Photo by Joshua Roberts /Reuters / Files
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Johnny’s Island.
The music legend recorded the tracks at Honolulu’s Commercial Recorders studio in Hawaii, during the same sessions for his 1982 LP Trans.
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Neil Young announces release of âlostâ album âJohnnyâs Islandâ
The album was recorded in Hawaii in 1982
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Neil Young has announced the release of a new âlostâ album from the 1980s called âJohnnyâs Islandâ.
The record will finally be release as part of the musicianâs Archives project, which has seen him share a host of unreleased tracks and previously unheard albums.
The latest instalment of this project is âJohnnyâs Islandâ, which was recorded at the Commercial Recorders studio in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1982. The album was once called âIsland In The Sunâ and was made in collaboration with the same crew on his 12th studio album âTransâ, which was released in December 1982.