Expecting to Calculate Neil Young 2021: Numbers Add Up To Nothin' ... or "A Rusties Holy Grail"
Last week, we posted on the news that Neil Young's Archives Vol #3 is now being planned for 2022.
In addition, we posted on "Yet Even More New & Old Neil Young Still To Come" with details on numerous upcoming projects.
So here's a rundown of the Neil pipeline ... or, expecting to go broke ...
- ‘THE TIMES’ - vinyl release on Feb. 19th
- ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ - film and double album of Neil Young & Crazy Horse concert on November 11, 1990 at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California. Release date: February 26 2021
- Neil Young's Archives Vol #2 - re-release/2nd printing. Release date: 3/5/2021
- Disc 1 (1972-1973) Everybody’s Alone
- Disc 2 (1973) Tuscaloosa
- Disc 3 (1973) Tonight’s the Night
- Disc 4 (1973) Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live
- Disc 5 (1974) Walk On
- Disc 6 (1974) The Old Homestead
- Disc 7 (1974) Homegrown
- Disc 8 (1975) Dume
- Disc 9 (1976) Look Out for My Love
- Disc 10 (1976) Odeon Budokan
- "Young Shakespeare" - unreleased album and film titled from January 1971 at the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut. RELEASE DATE: March 26th
- 6 ‘Official Bootleg’ releases - scheduled for release in April 2021. Titles include:
- Carnegie Hall Dec 4, 1970 - 1st show - Release date now: MAY 7, 2021
- Royce Hall. January 30, 1971
- Dorothy Chandler Pavillion [sic]. Feb 1, 1971
- Under The Rainbow. Nov 3, 1973
- The Bottom Line aka ‘Citizen Kane Jr. Blues’ May 16, 1974
- The Ducks - ‘Trick of Disaster’ August 1977
- Original Recording Series (ORS) #4 - Albums in Hi-Res: Hawks and Doves, Reactor, This Note's For You, Eldorado. Release date: 5/28
- Original Recording Series (ORS) #5 - Albums in Hi-Res: Freedom, ‘Smell the Horse’ - Ragged Glory Extended (+ 4 more tracks), Weld + ARC. Release date:
August 6 2021. UPDATE: "Weld will be released as a 3 vinyl version in ORS Box Set #5. Arc will also be released on vinyl in the same ORS#5. The Weld DVD is scheduled to be released at the same time as the Weld Vinyl."
- Original Recording Series (ORS) #6 - w/ "Sleeps With Angels” - November 26, 2021.
- Original Recording Series (ORS) #7 - w/ “Broken Arrow” - tentatively scheduled for summer of 2022.
- Return to Greendale BluRay - "available on Blu-Ray at the Greedy Hand Store on March 19th."
- Live Alchemy - Crazy Horse Tour 2012/3. Release date: October 29, 2021
- Johnny's Island: planned for NYA Volume 3, finished with 7 unreleased tracks + the 3 Trans acoustic. "Johnny’s Island, is not ‘Island in the Sun,’ but does include some of the music from that unreleased record, in addition to other rare unheard songs."
- EARLY DAZE (unreleased Crazy Horse) - coming in '22
- CSNY 70 / 71 Fillmore East - coming in 2022 w/ 4 camera video of CSNY
- Landing On Water - coming in high resolution
- Buffalo Springfield Boxset - outtakes have been added to NYA
- Bridge School Series - "in a new part of NYA in the coming weeks"
- Berlin (In Concert Film, 1982) - planned for NYA Volume 3
- Trans Animated - planned for NYA Volume 3
- Boarding House 1978 - planned for NYA Volume 3
- Oceanside Countryside - planned for NYA Volume 3
- A Snapshot in Time - " 'Barefoot Floors' is also included on NYA Volume 3 in ‘a snapshot in time’ disc 3. This is a documentary tape of me playing the songs on stars n bars for Nicolette Larson, Linda Ronstadt and David Briggs before we went into the studio. I think it’s the best recording. It may have been done separately in the studio."
- GIVE TO THE WIND - planned for NYA Volume 3, Disc 4. "We have the rehearsal tape done at the Nashville Musician’s Union
Hall the previous day with Nicolette and I and the entire orchestra."
- Noise and Flowers - live concert album of the 2019 tour with POTR
- Live Mirror Ball - in concert w/ Pearl Jam (DVD and CD);
- Timeless Orpheum - solo 2019 on DVD;
- Toast - unreleased Crazy Horse album
- WELD Series - concerts from the 1991 Weld Tour
- Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, on 1991-02-16
- Outtakes - "Coming as outtakes and some are in albums like ‘Crazy Horse Early Daze’ and others . . . . unreleased."
- Cinnamon Girl studio jan 1969
- Winterlong studio oct 1969
- Everybody's Alone studio CSNY oct 1969
- Sea of Madness studio CSNY feb 1969
- Last Dance studio dec 1972
- New Mama studio dec 1972
- Motorcycle Mama studio jan 75
- Long May You Run studio jan 75
Also, see Neil Young Adds 51 Tracks on Archives | NYA.
Neil Young Adds 51 Tracks on Archives | NYA
In a comment, Ken N. said that adding up all the discs for 2021, came to about 31?! However you add this up, it's 100's of unreleased tracks, songs, versions coming our way.
As they say, "the best is yet to come" ... lucky us.
Also, for more on "Yet Even More New & Old Neil Young Still To Come.
Feeling overwhelmed by the bounty? This should help ...
"A Rusties Holy Grail"
Thank you Uncle Eddie for helping focus Neil's attention on his unreleased catalogue! (See "Uncle Eddie's NYA - New Tier?": Neil Young Releasing Everything in 2020 on NYA.)

Bumper stickers will be issued. #UncleEddie
via UNOFFICIAL Neil Young Unreleased Archive - NYUA | Twitter
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