Neil Young’s Previously Unreleased ‘Oceanside Countryside’ LP Coming In February

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The latest of Neil Young’s “lost” albums, Oceanside Countryside, is slated to be released on Feb. 14 as part of his Analog Original Series.

Recorded from May through December 1977, the album preceded the release of Young’s Comes A Time in 1978. The two albums contain the same country/folk sound, and three songs (“Goin’ Back,” “Human Highway”and “Field of Opportunity”) appear on both albums.

The vinyl release of Oceanside Countryside includes some tracks that are on the CD of the same name in Young’s Archives Vol. III. This track list is how Oceanside Countryside was originally planned to be released and finally will be made available in analog on vinyl for the first time ever. The songs are the original mixes done at the time of recording and were recorded on tape. On Countryside, Young is joined by a band of friends including Ben Keith (steel guitar), Rufus Thibodeaux (fiddle), Karl T. Himmel (drums) and Joe Osborne (bass). On “The Old Homestead” Tim Drummond plays bass and Levon Helm plays drums.

“This analog original album was recorded in 1977 and unreleased,” says Young. “These songs are the original mixes done at the time of the recordings in the order I planned for the album. I sang the vocals and played the instruments on Oceanside in Florida at Triad studios and Malibu at Indigo studio. I sang the vocals and recorded with my great band of friends, Ben Keith, Joe Osborn, Karl T. Himmel, and Rufus Thibodeaux at Crazy Mama’s in Nashville on Countryside. I hope you enjoy this treasure of an Analog Original recording, recorded by Tim Mulligan, as much as I do. Listening to it now, I think I should have put it out back then.”

Oceanside Countryside Track List:
Side One: Oceanside
1. “Sail Away”
2. “Lost In Space”
3. “Captain Kennedy”
4. “Goin’ Back”
5. “Human Highway”

Side Two: Countryside
1. “Field Of Opportunity”
2. “Dance Dance Dance”
3. “The Old Homestead”
4. “It Might Have Been”
5. “Pocahontas”

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