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Neil Young's OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 5 - with an expected release on 14th Jul 2023 - will be a remastered 9 LP boxset and 6 CD boxset.
ORS #5 is a collection of four albums:
- 'FREEDOM' (1989),
- 'RAGGED GLORY' (1990),
- 'WELD' (1991)
- 'ARC' (1991)
'ARC' (1991)
In addition on 'RAGGED GLORY', the 10-song original album is expanded for this reissue with 4 rare tracks, known as the “Smell The Horse” Edition. “Interstate” and “Don’t Spook The Horse” were both B-sides to singles. “Box Car” and the 12 minute “Born To Run” are both previously unreleased versions.
"Boxcar" originally appeared on "Chrome Dreams II" in 2007 while "Born To Run" was on the archive album "Dume" as a "Zuma" outtake from 1975.
Back in 2018, Neil Young announced that a new, extended Ragged Glory edition will be titled ‘smell the horse,’ with four added
tracks.
Subsequently, we learned that Ragged Glory II, will be a double album, released as a stand alone LP in vinyl, CD and High resolution digital.
"We are presenting this in all analog for the first time, remastered from original analog 2 tracks under the loving care of John Hanlon. John has wanted to do this for years and now it’s here, coming in triple vinyl and remastered for CD and Hi Res from the original analog mixes. This will most definitely be the greatest version of this record ever made."
"Love To Burn" - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
via Song of the Day | NYA (Thanks Darren!)
Also, see Ragged Glory II - Neil Young and Crazy Horse Found Tapes.
Neil Young's Ragged Glory Sound & Equipment - Guitar World, October 2009
(Click to enlarge)
More on why Ragged Glory Is The Perfect Summer Album Soundtrack.
"Ragged Glory: A Perfect Summer Soundtrack"
Neil Young's 1990 Album w/ Crazy Horse
Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse:
"3rd Best Garage Band in the World"
~~Bill Graham
- EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Horse Drummer Ralph Molina Interview
- "Smell the Horse": Ragged Glory Extended +
Comment of the Moment: NYA FIRST LISTEN/WATCH: ‘Way Down In The Rust
Bucket’ - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse
- Year of the Horse Film Review and Interviews on the making with Crazy Horse, Neil and Director Jim Jarmusch
- Year of the Horse - Interview in France's Les Inrockuptibles, July 1997
- Year of the Horse - Film Review
- Crazy Horse Biography - Reprise Records, 1997
- Frank Sampedro Interview - Torhout Festival, 1996
- Poncho Interview - Halifax Daily News, 11/1/96
- Interview: Crazy Horse and Neil Young Maintain Special Relationship, by Barry Gutman, Music Wire, ~9/96
- Billy Talbot Interview - Rip it Up, ~8/96
- Crazy Horse Album Reviews- by Robert Christgau
- Years of the Horse
Induct Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse
Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
#CrazyHorse4HOF
Since the "Don't Spook The Horse" on the upcoming reissue is an alternate mix, that means I gotta hold on to my original 1990 CD single. At the very least I'd like to pick up an EP of just the four tracks, but I will have to wait for a standalone release of the expanded Ragged Glory.
ReplyDeleteIn a music store in Charlottesville in the 90's I found a bootleg Japanese CD that had a great - and at the time - the only version I had ever heard of Box Car. I've kicked myself numerous times since for not buying it, as I've never heard that version again anywhere. I hope that version is what's on this release.
ReplyDeleteC'mon Neil, I need to hear all 17 aborted takes of Mansion On The Hill. I don't know how I can make my way through life without versions of songs that you once deemed weren't good enough. I need to hear these things, no matter the cost.
ReplyDeleteFeed me, Neil. Feed me.
Does anyone know of another version of "Too Far Gone"? I love this song but have only ever heard the Freedom version. Has he played it live?
ReplyDeleteIt's on Archives Vol. II, Dume disc.
Delete@ Abner : Yes, Too Far Gone was played live a lot. Live ‘76 Songs for Judy. Personally, I think the song evolved and improved when he dropped the “double dip” of favorite car, favorite bar. The Freedom version is superior.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think Boxcar is anywhere in this series.
Hopefully Neil & band will do the live summer outdoor music!
Your brother Alan in Seattle
Neil was playing Too Far Gone as far back as 1976 as part of his acoustic set on the Japan/Europe tour with Crazy Horse. I saw him play it in Glasgow that year. It was quite a surprise when it popped up on Freedom all those years later - at first I didn't realise why it sounded so familiar. You can listen to live versions from that year on Odeon Budukan and Songs For Judy.
ReplyDeleteNot aware of any other studio versions but you could imagine he might have tried recording it sometime between then and its release. According to Sugar Mountain it has been played live 166 times including on tours with the Shocking Pinks, the International Harvesters, the Lost Dogs, solo with Ben Keith/Poncho, solo and with his Electric Band.
I am very much looking forward to hearing the Ragged Glory version of Interstate. I've had a couple of listens to Don't Spook The Horse and can't get the riff out of my head now.
There is a version on Dume, Archives Vol. II disc 8, track 14, that has Poncho on Mandolin. Recorded at Broken Arrow.
DeleteIt somehow escapes my understanding: why does one need to have four additional LPs (as compared to the original releases) to publish four additional songs? Scrounging for quality is alright with me but isn't it a common place nowadays that vinyl production capacities are limited? I still have good vinyl copies of "Freedom" and "Weld", and that April 1st CD will do for many years to come. I think I'll wait for the "Smell the Horse" stand-alone release.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly a set of superior releases (including ARC by the way) and deserves a place in any NY collection. Looking forward to hearing it. No complaints here.
ReplyDeletePeace 🙏
@Dan I' m not complaining, rather I am soliciting reasons to justify another box-set. Being beleaguered by several thousands of books, quite a few works of art, antique Roman and Greek artifacts (mostly shards), driftwood objects, photographs in my little box at the top of the stairs I also have to think about posterity. I took my son to Neil Young and Dylan concerts and he is a vinyl collector himself (in his generation that obviously became a matter of social distinction) but I still wonder where all this stuff will go one day.
ReplyDelete@ Dionys : Sorry for the misunderstanding, as I didn’t actually read your comment as a complaint. I totally appreciate where you’re coming from. Physical media has its pros and cons but there is definitely a good argument for less stuff overall. With streaming becoming the go to for the masses, I imagine it will fix itself over time. I’m just happy that these particular releases are getting a vinyl box set to go with the others we already have. The complaint comment was directed towards those who seem unhappy with lack of bonus material.
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I are in the process of moving, and we have been working tirelessly to get rid anything that doesn’t serve a useful purpose in our lives. Like many people we have accumulated a ridiculous amount of stuff over the past twenty one years, and we have made a conscious decision to live with less. I must say that the process has been incredibly liberating to say the least. Unfortunately we are both passionate about music, and although we have let much of our collection go over the past few years, Neil Young is just too important for us.
And….. I would absolutely love to see your collection of Roman and Greek artifacts, along with that little box of photographs at the top of the stairs. I totally get it. We humans seem to really enjoy collecting things.
Peace my friend 🙏
P. S. ‘Possession is nine tenths of the problem’
ReplyDelete– Dr. Winston O’Boogie aka John Lennon
Peace 🙏
Oh man, how did I forget about the version of Too Far Gone on Dume?
ReplyDeleteThanks @Harm. I must listen to Dume more.
Tempted to say Neil is releasing so much I can't keep track of it, but I fear the reality is my aging memory is better at remembering things from the seventies than things from a couple of years ago. Maybe a bit of both.
Ordered. Expensive yes but this is the motherload for me, I love all these albums.
ReplyDeleteAndrew
UK