TRACKLISTING
01.(Emcee intro) 02.On The Way Home
03.Songwriting rap 04.Mr. Soul 05.Recording rap
06.Expecting To Fly 07.The Last Trip To Tulsa
08.Bookstore rap 09.The Loner 10."I used to" rap
11.Birds 12.Winterlong (excerpt) and Out of My Mind
- intro 13.Out Of My Mind 14.If I Could Have Her
Tonight 15.Classical Gas rap 16.Sugar Mountain –
intro 17.Sugar Mountain 18.I've Been Waiting For
You 19.Songs rap 20.Nowadays Clancy Can't Even
Sing 21.Tuning Rap & The Old Laughing Lady - intro
22.The Old Laughing Lady 23.Broken Arrow

AFTER 40 YEARS
REPRISE SETS NEIL YOUNG'S SUGAR MOUNTAIN
RELEASE FOR NOVEMBER 21
Just five days shy of his 23rd birthday, Neil Young's solo career
launched in earnest with an engagement at The Canterbury House
in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Having left the Buffalo Springfield only six
months earlier, Neil brought just his guitar along to the facility
operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan as a ministry to
University of
Michigan students, faculty and staff.
The truth was that the engagement was something of a "stealth"
booking, an experiment to determine if audiences would accept
Neil's music in its most elemental form. Having performed previously
in the context of a band, he was unsure if he could deliver his music
as convincingly alone. The Canterbury House experience erased all
doubts and set the stage for the succession of Neil Young solo
albums that continues to this day.
The night of November 9, 1968 (and the night following), he
performed his music and told stories between the songs to a rapt
audience. The performances were recorded those evenings on a
TEAC 2 track tape recorder, the tapes kept in storage over the
intervening years.
More than 40 years will have passed when Reprise Records
releases Sugar Mountain Live At Canterbury House 1968 as part of
the continuing Neil Young Archive Performance Series. The 23-
track album will be issued on November 21st and includes
recordings made on both nights and offers a glimpse into the
development of a legendary artist. The album includes
songs that were written during his Buffalo Springfield tenure as well
as newly written material that would appear on future solo albums.
One of the spoken word standouts is an amusing tale of Neil's
hapless "day job" experience working in a Toronto bookstore that
still brings laughs today as it did that night so long ago.
It should be noted that Sugar Mountain Live is not slated for
inclusion in the long anticipated Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 -
1972). The 10-disc Blu-ray and DVD packages will be released early
in 2009 with a specific date forthcoming.
The legendary title track, written on Neil's 19th birthday, is certainly
a highlight as are such songs as "Mr. Soul," "Expecting To Fly," and
"The Loner." Just about every one of the thirteen songs included in
the album came to be appreciated as touchstones of Neil Young's
brilliant songwriting prowess over the decades to follow.
Sugar Mountain Live At Canterbury House 1968 was recorded in
stereo on two tracks. It's intimacy, warmth and brilliance still shine through forty years later.