NEW ALBUM: Neil Young's A Letter Home Vinyl LP Released
Last July, Neil Young traveled to Nashville, Tenn to record an album of covers at Jack White's Third Man Records on a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl recording booth.
The album titled A Letter Home was something of a mystery in terms of release info for yesterday's International Record Store Day but it now is listed on Third Man Records for ordering as a vinyl only release.
Track Listing:
1. "Changes" (Phil Ochs)
2. "Girl From The North Country" (Bob Dylan)
3. "Needle of Death" (Bert Jansch)
4. "Early Morning Rain" (Gordon Lightfoot)
5. "Crazy" (Willie Nelson)
6. "Reason To Believe" (Tim Hardin)
7. "On The Road Again" (Willie Nelson)
8. "If You Could Read My Mind" (Gordon Lightfoot)
9. "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter)
10. "My Hometown" (Bruce Springsteen)
11. "I Wonder If I Care As Much" (Everly Brothers)
Credits: (Thanks Ralf!)
Reproduced by: Jack White III & Neil Young
Recorded at: Third Man Records, Nashville, TA
Electro-mechanically engeniered by: Joshua V. Smith & Kevin Carrico
Recorded by: Joshua V. Smith
Assisted by: Mindy Watts
Recorded to acetate by: George Ingram
Mastered by: Bob Ludwig for Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME
Neil Young: Vocal, Guitar, Harmonica, Piano.
Jack White: Vocal, Piano - "On the Road Again", Vocal, Piano - "I Wonder if I care As Much"
Art Direction & Design: Gary Burden and Jenice Heo for R. Twerk & Co with Neil Young and Jack White
Hand lettering "A Letter Home": Julian Baker
Photo: Front Cover - Will Mitchell, Back Cover - Joe McCaughey
Direction: Elliot Roberts, Lookout Management
Special Thanks: Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Bert Jansch, Gordon Lightfoot, Willie Nelson, Tim Hardin, Ivory Joe Hunter, Bruce Springsteen, Don Everly
(c) 2014 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WMA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S. - Under license to Third Man Records, LLC, Printed in U.S.A. TMR245
Neil Young
Jack White's Third Man Record Booth
"An unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever…" —Homer Grosvenor
From Jack White's quest to record and release a record in one day | Music | Entertainment | Toronto Sun by Jane Stevenson:
The event was staged in an effort to get music fans into independent record stores, and the current return-to-vinyl explosion led in no small part by White’s Third Man Records store. The local Nashville shop also sold a Neil Young covers album, A Letter Home, on Saturday, that the Canadian singer-songwriter recently recorded there inside a Voice-O-Graph booth.
“Neil Young just stopped by. He was driving his electric car, the LincVolt, he was driving around town and filming stuff, and he stopped by, checked it out, and me and him were talking about it. We had a curtain set up on the other side,” said White. “And some kid came into the recording booth and recorded a Neil Young song and when he opened the door, Neil Young just peaked his head out."
"It was a pretty beautiful moment. And I think that a few months later he called me and said, ‘Hey man I want to come and record in that booth. Hey, maybe I’ll do my whole next record there.’ I’m like, ‘I’m not going to stop you. Where do you want me to pick you up?’”
And here are some live versions of the songs on Video: Neil Young Releases ‘A Letter Home’ With No Pre-Release Hype | DAYS OF THE CRAZY-WILD. (Thanks Michael!)
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 4/20/2014 10:32:00 AM
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Already out of stock? Damn
Gonna take a stab here and say "Homer Grosvenor" is another Neil alias...
@eddy - well that was fast?! But don't panic yet. More news appears to be on horizon for ALH.
@anon - good guess. Someone else pointed out that Neil's boyhood home in Winnipeg was Grosvenor Avenue.
clue. ;)
"A Letter Home Intro" is missing on the list.
What, was it a Record Store Day exclusive?
"More news appears to be on horizon for ALH" ???
Where can I find that horizon?
Already on sale on ebay for $250. What a crock. Hope Neil will give us another chance to get this on vinyl.
... or at least tell his loyal fans that this is a Record Store Day exclusive release.
In his interview on Radio.com, Neil gives further details of recording this album:
http://radio.com/2014/04/11/neil-young-interview-pono/
Release on CD and Pono are implied:
“When you listen to it on Pono, it’s a direct feed from the booth. It didn’t go to the vinyl, it went right out the back of the booth to an analog master, which was transferred to the highest resolution digital, and that’s what you hear on Pono.
If you hear it on a CD, it’ll be off the vinyl masters that were created in the booth. And they sound great, but they sound historic, they sound like something that was recorded in the 1940s.”
This isn't a Record Store Day exclusive release, in fact it was up for sale a day before Record Store Day.
" it's a direct feed from the booth.."
Well, unless they put a quality microphone in there I can't imagine that it sounds very good. Being crammed in a box...well, he did that recording "Bandit" IIRC, but that was at least a custom made box, not some novelty arcade phone booth. However, I do appreciate his perversity in using Pono as the playback device for what must be a very crude recording. Why not go all the way back to wax cylinders?
It sounds VERY rough as you could imagine based on the technology. Lots of distortion, pops and hisses. That said the song choices are very good and I'm not going to complain about having it announced Friday night and being able to pick it up on Saturday afternoon,
I live about 100 miles from Nashville…so I've visited Third Man Records and seen the booth… from my understanding, You've got like only 2 minutes 30 seconds to play a song…how on earth did he pull "Changes" off in that booth?
I saw those on ebay as well…one was going for $130 with 19 bids…why would someone pay that when you can still order it from Third Man for $20?
"I saw those on ebay as well…one was going for $130 with 19 bids…why would someone pay that when you can still order it from Third Man for $20?"
The site says they're in stock, but when you try to buy one, you're given an alert notifying that they're is out of stock. Bloody annoying.
oh ok…i ordered mine Friday night so i've not tried since then…whew! glad i didn't pussyfoot around with ordering the record…anxiously waiting for Monday or Tuesday!
Dodgy Neil! - in case you haven't noticed, the man recorded two-to-three albums here: clean out of the booth (PONO), to-vinyl recording, recording of the recording (CD)...hand over fist I tell ya! ;)
god...do i go on ebay?? ill pay the bloody 200 bucks if i have to....just tell me ..is this coming out on vinyl again or not??...
I would like to buy it. Just where? There has got to be at least a digital release, too... :-(
I am not willing to shell out 200 Dollars just to hear his new album.
I emailed third man records and they told me that they will be getting it back in stock very soon. They are just waiting for it to come from the printing press.
Yes! listen to anon 11:46am! Do not pay the disgusting ebay scapler prices! A few fans who've already bid $150+ are getting royally shafted!
My guess is that ALH will be used as a booster for Pono... not that I would be happy to see that kind of move though i've backed for my yellow one. We'll see after summer i believe :-(
CD now listed on Amazon Canada (though not U.S. yet): http://www.amazon.ca/Letter-Home-Neil-Young/dp/B00JROMHM4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398104799&sr=8-1&keywords=neil+young+letter+home
Release date May 19
The obvious question to me is how the heck does releasing an album on the internet support local record stores??? wft is wrong with Neil Young???
It wasn't an actual Record Store Day release (see their website for the full list), timing was coincidental.
Seems to be in stock again on the Third Man site. Avoid the ebay flippers!
It wasn't an actual record store day release. Apparently Jack Whites physical record store had some copies. Apparently those buyers are the ones scalping on ebay. what
doesnt make sense is why not have the vinyl as a RSD release and available on jack whites site.
it seems like something somewhere got screwed up. It also appears
that the vinyl version will come out first then the cd version. This appears to be neil saying ok if you want to hear A letter Home now you can on vinyl otherwise wait until it comes out on CD (May 19th) or Pono(whenever) Seems like us loyal fans are getting screwed over
How does releasing an album on vinyl screw over the "loyal fans"?
I am a very loyal fan and I managed to score a copy. I like the fact that Third man put it without any big announcement for this strange but innaresting vinyl.
Album is back in stock on TMR website. Just ordered 2 copies.
Kinda surprised there aren't more reviews of the record itself. Don't tell me that everyone that got one isn't even going to open it or play it.
I sure hope he releases this on CD!!!! I can't afford a Pono. :( I so badly want to hear this!!!!
Matthew: CD now listed on Amazon Canada (though not U.S. yet) Check out post from 4/21/2014 02:27:00 PM.
Has anyone heard this album or seen any reviews online?
Now back in stock at Third Man. Ordered mine online this morning posting to UK . Retail price $20, feeling sorry for unaware punters bidding mega $ on EBay!
Just ordered mine: $20 + $24 shipping to Rio de Janeiro ;-))
I just listened to the first side…about to listen to side B here in a second…thoughts so far…very personal sounding especially with the letter home intro to his mother…its got the snap crackle pops of the booth but it adds to it…Needle of Death and Changes are highlights for me so far…now that ive listened to it, he must've found a good stopping point on these 2 songs and picked it back up where he left off but who knows…Nice little charming version of Crazy to close out the first side…Early Morning Rain was good too…hell so was Girl from North Country...
When is third man shipping these?
I got a shipping confirmation this morning.
A little bit of Neil covering Gordon Lightfoot's "If Could You Read My Mind" from A Letter Home;
http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=55349&archive=96225&starttime=1:50:43
A letter Home now up on amazon for $59.99 This semi roll out release
now seems to be a publicity stunt gone south. A lot of folks pissed at the way the release has gone down.
Amazon preorders now available:
CD: http://www.amazon.com/A-Letter-Home-Neil-Young/dp/B00JROMHM4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1398324663&sr=8-2&keywords=neil+young+letter+home
Vinyl box set: http://www.amazon.com/Letter-Home-Vinyl-Box-Set/dp/B00JW2DDJM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1398324663&sr=8-3&keywords=neil+young+letter+home
$117.00 for "Vinyl Box Set"
$22.00 for the CD THESE PRICES SUCK
time to call a spade a spade A ripoff of the fans
Cheaper on Neil's site. The box set comes with the standard vinyl, direct from the booth audiophile vinyl, 7 6" clear discs, the cd, a dvd and a 32 page book. Really not that bad of a price. Got mine ordered.
http://neilyoung.warnerbrosrecords.com/a-letter-home-limited-edition-box-set.html
I was excited to receive a notice from Third Man that vinyl copies were available again and ordered one right away for $20 + $6.98 postage. Now I find where there's a nice box set available from Neil's site that is a much better value than buying the vinyl alone. Wish I had waited another day. The marketing of this record has been pretty lame. If it weren't for Thrasher's Wheat I wouldn't have known it even existed.
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