Oceanside Countryside (Remastered) Neil Young

• 1 Sail Away 03:49
• 2 Lost In Space 04:20
• 3 Captain Kennedy 02:51
• 4 Goin’ Back 05:07
• 5 Human Highway 03:10
• 6 Field of Opportunity 03:07
• 7 Dance Dance Dance 02:32
• 8 The Old Homestead 07:09
• 9 It Might Have Been 02:35
• 10 Pocahontas 03:25
• Total Runtime 38:05

Info for Oceanside Countryside (Remastered)

Oceanside Countryside is the latest of Neil Young's great “lost” albums to be released as part of his Analog Original Series. The album was recorded from May to December 1977, preceding the release of Comes A Time in 1978. The two albums share the same country/folk sound, and three songs (“Goin’ Back”, “Human Highway” and “Field of Opportunity”) appear on both albums.

Oceanside Countryside was recorded from May to December 1977. The first side comprised solo Young performances, while most of the second featured a full band. It never saw release, though; instead, Comes a Time hit store shelves in October 1978. Both albums shared the same country-rock DNA as well as three songs ("Goin' Back," "Human Highway," and "Field of Opportunity") and some of the same musicians; Ben Keith (steel guitar), Rufus Thibodeaux (fiddle), Karl T. Himmel (drums), and Wrecking Crew veteran Joe Osborn (bass) are heard on both LPs. In addition, Tim Drummond plays bass and Levon Helm plays drums on O/C's "The Old Homestead."

Young shares in the press release, "This analog original album was recorded in 1977 and unreleased. 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."

"As with most of the archive albums there is no real reason why ‘Oceanside Countryside’ was shelved in favour of ‘Comes A Time’. Maybe, as with ‘Tonight’s The Night’ when the time came to release the next album Young was more into ‘Comes A Time’, so it got put on hold. The fact Young recycled the majority of the songs, shows that he was still into them, but maybe it didn’t hang together enough for him. Ultimately it doesn’t matter as ‘Oceanside Countryside’ is finally hear, for us to hear in its glory. Maybe ‘It Might Have Been’ would have been a more fitting title, but ‘Oceanside Countryside’ conjures something more poetic. After listening to the album though, I wonder about Young’s lost album archive, like my parent’s loft, “How much more stuff is in here?”" (Nick Roseblade, clashmusic.com)

Neil Young, vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
Ben Keith, steel guitar, Dobro
Rufus Thibodeaux, fiddle
Joe Osborne, bass
Tim Drummond, bass
Karl T. Himmel, drums
Levon Helm, drums

Digitally remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

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