Neil Young @ Canterbury House 1969: "Timeline Concerts of the Week" | NYA

"Timeline Concert of the Week" | NYA

(See Neil Young Archives: Complete Listing of "Timeline Concerts of the Week" + UPDATE: NYA Subscriber News)

 

Today, another full concert has been uploaded to Concert Performance Timeline on Neil Young Archives @ One Night at the Canterbury House | NYA.

One Night at the Canterbury House

Dates: Oct 16, 1969

Venue: The Canterbury House, First Set - Ann Arbor, Michigan

From Jim on Rust Group:

On my first cup of coffee but worked for the medical wing of the Canterbury House so have some knowledge of this era but was too young to attend any of the shows. 

Didn't start attending concerts until summer of 1972 seeing Joni MItchell/LA Express, Loggins and Messina with Jim Croce, Airplane/Commander Cody that year at various area venues.

Have been waiting for this release for decades, holy cow!   Hope the other two sets get released since this night in Ann Arbor was filled with solo rarities.   This show was less than a couple of months after Woodstock in the midst of recording "Deja Vu."   

This is a one off show because the Canterbury House was very good at picking "up and coming acts" so they required you sign a contract for two appearances.  So they signed Neil Young just after the Springfield broke up and then had him under contract to return as CSNY and Crazy Horse broke wide in 1969.   Elliot Roberts really liked the Canterbury House and sent them nice thank you notes that are in their archives.

https://michigantoday.umich.edu/2012/05/23/a8370/

Some of the other acts that played the venue and were recorded on reel to reel superbly are very early Little Feat, Buddy Guy, even more Joni Mitchell than has been released already, Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff Muldaur, Richie Havens, Odetta, MC5, Janis Ian, early Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Tom Rush, Roosevelt Sykes,  Richie Havens, Jesse Fuller (!), Jim and Jean, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Doc Boggs, John Micaleff, Jeremy and the Satyrs, Skip James, Sun Ra, Doc and Merle Watson, Joan Baez and on and on.

https://theconcertdatabase.com/venues/canterbury-house

David Siglin, who managed the Ark Coffeehouse in Ann Arbor for decades, said the Ramblin' Jack Elliott show at the Canterbury House was among the best live performances he ever saw (or something to that effect).

Neil Young played three sets that night in 1969 and here is the song list from Sugar Mountain.

To be clear this is the 2nd appearance but fourth day at the Canterbury House in 1969.  In 1968 he played three nights and then came back in 1969 to play three sets in one night.

https://sugarmtn.org/sm_getshows.php?venue_key=855

Notes:  Per Ghosts On The Road, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere contains an unpublished verse and the second Country Girl contains alternate lyrics. The 1956 Bubblegum Disaster>It's My Time is just fragments of each song.

via Sugar Mountain

Neil Young solo
October 16, 1969
Canterbury House with seating for a little over 200 people for each set
Ann Arbor, Michigan

* - song debut

1.	On The Way Home
2.	Helpless*
3.	Dance, Dance, Dance*
4.	I've Loved Her So Long
5.	Down By The River
6.	I Am A Child
7.	Everybody's Alone*
8.	Wonderin'
9.	Oh, Lonesome Me
10.	Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
11.	Country Girl*
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12.	On The Way Home
13.	Helpless
14.	Cinnamon Girl>The Loner
15.	Birds
16.	I Am A Child
17.	Everybody's Alone
18.	Dance, Dance, Dance
19.	The 1956 Bubblegum Disaster>It's My Time
20.	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
21.	The Old Laughing Lady
22.	I've Been Waiting For You
23.	Here We Are In The Years
24.	Wonderin'
25.	Down By The River
26.	Country Girl
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27.	Down To The Wire
28.	On The Way Home
29.	Helpless
30.	Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
31.	Dance, Dance, Dance
32.	Birds
33.	The Loner
34.	Everybody's Alone
35.	I Am A Child
36.	I've Been Waiting For You
37.	Country Girl

 

REVIEW: 

(via Sugar Mountain)

 

An interesting concluding comment from review by Fed LaBour:

"Neil is pure and he knows who his spiritual enemies are and I hope that his particular knowledge doesn't, of necessity, lead to early, lonely death."

Well, thankfully that reviewer's comment did not come to pass!

BTW, here is episode #7 of Thrasher's Wheat Radio 2.0 Vodcast/Podcast, hosted by our good friends  WBKM.org  in Burlington, Vermont. This episode features our very first special guest Rustie Lone Red Rider who discusses the new Concert Performance of the Week series.

  

Thrasher's Wheat Radio 2.0 Vodcast/Podcast - Episode #7 | Hosted by WBKM.org

 

 w/ Special Guest Rustie Lone Red Rider

(See Thrasher's Wheat Radio 2.0 Vodcast - Episode #7 | Neil Young Concert Performance of the Week | Hosted by WBKM.org )

 

Also, see Neil Young Archives: Complete Listing of "Timeline Concerts of the Week" + UPDATE: NYA Subscriber News. 

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Half-Decade of Neil Young's Music from 1972-76: A Comprehensive, Meticulous, and Flowing Account

Uncropped Image for Neil Young's Decade
by Tom Wilkes
(See Neil Young's Decade: The Images Behind The Album Cover ) 

Here  is a preview  of a Neil Young Archives Vol #2 review by long time TW contributor Metamorphic Rocker. 

 

His approach is quite in depth and a personal passion project.  For this first section, he explores "Half-Decade: A Comprehensive, Meticulous,  and Flowing Account of Neil Young's Music from 1972-76."  Still to come are reflections on The Old Homestead and Walk-on discs.  The intention is to publish a section for each full moon July -- September. 

Please let us know what you think of Meta Rocker's submission!

Half-Decade: A Comprehensive, Meticulous,  and Flowing Account of Neil Young's Music from 1972-76

by Metamorphic Rocker

 

Part I:  Homegrown>Old Homestead>Walk On

July 2021

Neil Young's second Archives compendium arrived more than ten years after the first.

 

It covers half the time span of Vol. I (which runs from Neil's earliest known 1963 recordings to the commercial apogee of Harvest, released in early '72). Arguably, though, Archives Vol. II compensates for breadth with depth, offering (for this fan) about twice the value in content of its precursor. This is a subjective take, however: depending on which albums or epochs of Young's work you most appreciate, the music may or may not be more rewarding than what Vol. I offered. For deluxe bells and whistles, certainly, this 10-CD box set does not match the original DVD or blu-ray editions of Vol I. Essentially, the mass market release of Vol. 2 is equivalent to Vol I.'s CD release: the economy edition. If one wanted all the trimmings, one would’ve had to catch the limited edition released last November exclusively through Neil Young's website at $250.00 a pop.

 

Personally, although I still love the big book that came with Vol I., I don't mind not having to search for storage space for another file cabinet-sized box. In most respects, and particularly for the interests of the average consumer, the compact Vol 2 CD box is an aesthetic and practical improvement in design. If anything, it makes the Vol. I box look sprawling and clumsy by comparison. While I did enjoy the immersive experience of Vol I (and the 1966-67 Buffalo Springfield demos and outtakes in particular offer from pure gems), this time they've cleaned up the formatting, making the package sleeker at no cost to music quantity or quality.

 

  This review will be split into several installments, each concentrating roughly three or four of the ten discs: one part will cover Crazy Horse (Tonight’s the Night/Roxy/Dume/Odeon-Budokan); another for the Stray Gators (Everybody’s Alone/Tuscaloosa) plus the Stills/Young Band era (Look Out for My Love); and this, the first installment, which will focus on what amounts to a bridge between Gators and Horse: the late “ditch” period recordings documented on Homegrown, The Old Homestead, and Walk On). 

 

   I prefer to start in the middle because Homegrown, a “lost” album which was released on its own ahead of the box set and is the only disc that was designed at the time of recording as a cohesive album, is in many ways the core and lynchpin of this period of Neil Young’s career, encompassing within a concise yet erratic self-portrait all of the sounds, styles, and moods that haunt the other discs in a less concentrated form. Homegrown, in other words, captures the essence--the ethos and the flavor--of the music Young was making in this period, and although at the time, it was shelved in favor of Tonight’s the Night, it sounds remarkably like a melding of Harvest and On the Beach. Interiority is the word that comes to mind for this record. The tinkling piano of "Mexico" is almost too beautiful and fragile, its lyric a thin vapor trailing into the familiar weary twang of "Love is a Rose". "Rose" and the closing "Star of Bethlehem" (with Ben Keith’s sweet harmony vocal raised in the mix) are the same recordings featured on Decade and American Stars 'n' Bars, just as the severely underrated "Little Wing" is the track eventually released as Hawks and Doves' opener.

    

 The album’s fragmentation is its cohesion, its patchwork flow of loose ends and stray notes coming together as a vivid portrait of a fractured, strained psyche. The looseness of recordings like “Homegrown”, “We Don’t Smoke it”, “Florida” (featuring only voice, piano strings, and wine glasses), and “Kansas” perfectly evoke a sense of malaise and confusion that make this one of Neil’s most enigmatic and deeply contemplative albums. A fascinating aspect of Homegrown that has been overlooked is how its first half, in particular, mimics the structure of Harvest’s side one. Compare the doleful opener, “Separate Ways” (of which more is to be said when we reach the Stills-Young disc) with “Out on the Weekend”. Take the London Symphony off of “A Man Needs a Maid” and end up with a song eerily close, in feeling and structure, to “Mexico”. “Love is a Rose” is the would-be single to follow up “Heart of Gold”, another country-inflected anthem about searching restlessly for love.

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Many thanks here Meta Rocker! Indeed, a "Comprehensive, Meticulous,  and Flowing Account!"  Very much looking forward to future installments on Full Moons!

 

No problem on length or complexity.  We're trying to make this blog something along the lines of "anti-short attention span" writing. 

 

Enjoy and give Meta Rocker some feedback! 

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Lucinda Williams w/ Emmylou Harris & Neil Young: "Greenville" - 1999 Bridge School Benefit

Bridge School Benefit 13

1999-10-30 & 31
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, USA
(Reviews @ Bridge School Benefit Concerts)   Here is Lucinda Williams w/ Emmylou Harris & Neil Young on "Greenville" from  Bridge School Benefit 13 in 1999.

 

  

More on reviews of 13th Annual Bridge School Benefit concerts with The Who, Pearl Jam, Sheryl Crow, Green Day, Billy Corgan & James Iha, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams and Brian Wilson @ Bridge School Benefit Concerts.

The Bridge School

The Bridge School Concerts
25th Anniversary Edition
**100% of Proceeds to Benefit Bridge School***

Also, see Lucinda Williams & Buick 6 cover Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" at Paradiso in Amsterdam in January 2016.

Also, see more on Emmylou Harris and Neil Young.

 

Emmylou Harris and Neil Young

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