Neil Young Announces ‘Lost’ 1977 Album ‘Oceanside Countryside’
Neil Young has announced the standalone release of his ‘lost’ 1977 album, Oceanside Countryside, out 14 February on Reprise Records and available to pre-order now.
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“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,” Young said in a statement about the latest release in his Analog Original Series.
Oceanside Countryside was originally recorded from May-December 1977, just before the release of his 1978 album Comes A Time, which featured some of Young’s most beloved songs of the time, including the title track, Lotta Love, Human Highway, Field Of Opportunity and Four Strong Winds.
“I sang the vocals and played the instruments on Oceanside in Florida at Triad studios and Malibu at Indigo studio,” Young aded. “I sang the vocals and recorded with my great band of friends, Ben Keith [steel guitar], Joe Osborn [bass], Karl T Himmel [drums], and Rufus Thibodeaux [fiddle] 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.”
All of the songs on the album’s first side (Oceanside) are performed solo by Young, with a group of friends joining him on Side Two (Countryside), including Keith, Thibodeaux, Himmel and Osborne, with Tim Drummond on bass for The Old Homestead, which also features The Band’s Levon Helm on drums.
Though a number of the songs on Oceanside Countryside originally appeared on Archives Vol III, the release noted that the versions are “not always the same.” Specifically, the versions of Lost in Space, Captain Kennedy and The Old Homestead on the analogue original vinyl release were originally released on the Hawks & Doves album from 1980. In addition, Field Of Opportunity and Dance Dance Dance are the original versions that have backing vocals from Young instead of Nicolette Larson, whose vocals appeared on Archives Vol III.
Neil Young – Oceanside Countryside tracklisting
Side One: Oceanside
Sail Away
Lost in Space
Captain Kennedy
Goin’ Back
Human Highway
Side Two: Countryside
Field of Opportunity
Dance Dance Dance
The Old Homestead
It Might Have Been
Pocahontas