Neil Young is set to release, Oceanside Countryside, another ‘lost album’ from his seemingly bottomless archives.
Oceanside Countryside will be released via Warner/Reprise via Young’s Analog Original imprint on February 14, and was recorded between May and December 1977. It’s billed as a companion release to 1978’s Comes A Time, and contains three songs that feature on that album: Goin’ Back, Human Highway and Field Of Opportunity.
“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.”
Other ‘lost’ Neil Young albums include Homegrown (recorded in 1975), Hitchhiker (a solo session recorded in 1976 that was rejected by Young’s label), Chrome Dreams (originally put together in 1977), Johnny’s Island (a renamed version of 1992’s unreleased Island in the Sun), Summer Songs (recorded in 1987) and Toast (recorded with Crazy Horse in 2000-2001 and rejected in favor of Are You Passionate?).
You can pre-order Neil Young’s Oceanside Countryside from his website here.
