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Songs for Judy

2018 live album by Neil Young

Songs for Judy is a live album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on November 30, 2018 on Shakey Pictures Records. It is Volume 07 in the Performance Series of Neil Young Archives. The album features recordings from Young's solo acoustic sets during the November 1976 United States tour with Crazy Horse.[4]

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In spring 1970, Young toured with Crazy Horse. He opened the shows with a solo acoustic set before bringing out Crazy Horse for a set of electric material. Live At The Fillmore East documents that tour.

In the fall 1976 tour that Songs For Judy documents, he did the same. During his acoustic sets, Young played different songs each night rather than the same songs at every show. As a result he played a total of 22 acoustic songs throughout the course of the tour, each of which appears on Songs For Judy.

In addition, whereas Live at the Fillmore East documents only electric performances and omits acoustic material, Songs For Judy does the opposite and documents only acoustic performances.

Background

Joel Bernstein, whom Young brought on tour as a guitar tech, recorded the shows directly from the PA feed to a cassette desk for personal listening. Together with his friend Cameron Crowe they compiled and sequenced a set of the best performances; a copy of this tape was later stolen and began to circulate among fans as The Joel Bernstein Tapes bootleg.[5] The album features the same performances as the original compilation, with multitrack mixes replacing Bernstein's cassette recordings where possible; unlike the original compilation, songs are set in chronological order of performance dates.

A number of songs performed on the tour were unreleased at the time, including "Too Far Gone" and "White Line" which would appear in studio form years later on Freedom (1989) and Ragged Glory (1990), respectively, and "Give Me Strength," which was featured on 2017 archival release Hitchhiker. The song "No One Seems to Know" makes its first appearance on any official Neil Young release.

The name Songs for Judy originates from Young's story (told in the album introduction) about hallucinating during one of the shows and seeing Judy Garland in the orchestra pit.[6]

Track listing

All songs written by Neil Young.

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Personnel

Engineering and production

  • Joel Bernstein, Cameron Crowe, David Briggs, Neil Young – production
  • Tracks 1–9, 23:
    • Joel Bernstein – cassette recording
    • Tim Mulligan – original PA mix
  • Tracks 10–22:
    • Dave Hewitt – multitrack recording
    • Phil Gitamer – assistant engineer
  • John Nowland, Tim Mulligan – mixing
  • John Hanlon – post-production
  • Tim Mulligan – mastering (Redwood Digital)
  • Chris Bellman – mastering (Bernie Grundman Mastering)
  • Daryl Hannah – artwork
  • Alex Tenta – design, layout

Charts

References

  1. [1]
    "Songs for Judy - Neil Young - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  2. [2]
    Jarnow, Jesse (December 1, 2018). "Neil Young: Songs for Judy". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
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    Brown, David (December 17, 2018). "Review: Neil Young's Latest Archival Release 'Songs for Judy'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Neil Young to Release 1976 Live Album 'Songs for Judy'". Rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Some notes about the recordings" by Joel Bernstein and Cameron Crowe; from Songs for Judy liner notes.
  6. [6]
    Darrow, Chuck. "The guy who curates Neil Young's archives? He's from Cheltenham". Philly.com. The Inquirer. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  7. [7]
    Neil Young Archives: Songs for Judy
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