Early Daze (Remastered) Neil Young & Crazy Horse

• 1 Dance Dance Dance 02:36
• 2 Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown 04:12
• 3 Winterlong 03:39
• 4 Everybody's Alone 02:31
• 5 Wonderin' 02:19
• 6 Cinnamon Girl 03:01
• 7 Look At All the Things 02:58
• 8 Helpless 04:39
• 9 Birds 03:38
• 10 Down By the River 09:03
• Total Runtime 38:36

Info for Early Daze (Remastered)

Neil Young Archives is excited to announce the release of "EARLY DAZE," a historic collection of early recordings from 1969 by Neil Young with Crazy Horse. This is available now, via Reprise Records.

The album features ten tracks, including some of Neil Young's iconic originals and contributions by guitarist Danny Whitten. This collection includes unreleased versions of "Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown," "Winterlong," "Wonderin’," and more, along with the original 7" mono mix of "Cinnamon Girl."

Clocking in at a concise 39 minutes, the 10-track Early Daze is a collection of raw-and-raucous 1969 recordings of Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Young’s 47th and most-recent release, it’s an intimate, crucial document of his prime era with his longtime backing band.

While Young has worn many hats since his mid-‘60s Buffalo Springfield days — prolific solo songwriter; grudging member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; country rocker and uncompromising activist, to name a few — it has arguably been with Crazy Horse where he has tapped into his rapturous electric leanings. First appearing on record with Young on 1969’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, the band formerly known as L.A. group The Rockets helped Young unleash definitive, moody rockers including “Cinnamon Girl,” “Down by the River” and “Cowgirl in the Sand.”

On Early Daze, the full lineup of Crazy Horse (guitarist-vocalist Danny Whitten; keyboardist-producer Jack Nitzsche; bass guitarist Billy Talbot and drummer-vocalist Ralph Molina) meet and exceed Young’s once-estimation that they were “the greatest garage band in the world.” Penned and sung by Whitten, “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown” first appeared as “Downtown” on Crazy Horse’s 1971 Young-free eponymous debut and a live version recorded in that same year was included on Young’s 1975 album, Tonight’s the Night. It’s easy to tie off some dark romance to the song, whose lyrics encapsulate the anticipation of Whitten chronicling the agitated joy of going “downtown” to cop heroin, the very drug that helped facilitate his downfall and eventual 1972 death; Tonight’s the Night was essentially a wake memorializing the fatal overdoses of both Whitten and band roadie Bruce Berry.

Neil Young, guitar, vocals, piano (4), vibes (5), handclaps (6), production, writing (1-6, 8-10)
Danny Whitten, guitar, vocals, handclaps (6), writing (2, 7)
Billy Talbot, bass, handclaps (6)
Ralph Molina, drums, vocals, handclaps (6)
Jack Nitzsche, piano (1–3), production (1)

Digitally remastered

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