The much discussed Neil Young Archives box set collects nine years of his work into one volume, which hits stores today. (A second volume will follow). To hear a younger Young, fans can time travel through this span of recordings made between 1963-1972, when he was performing with The Squires, Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse, CSN&Y, and of course solo. Here's one tune from the vault: a previously unreleased version of "Dance Dance Dance" recorded with Crazy Horse.
By Noah W. Bailey
Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.
Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the
San Francisco psychsters Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound are getting ready to unleash their latest batch of magically heavy rock on April 7. The new album, When Sweet Sleep Returned, was produced by studio maestro Tim Green at Louder Studios. According to the band's label, Tee Pee Records, the disc is a combo of Crazy Horse, the Who, Pink Floyd, and "Italian bastardizations of Lalo Schifrin cop movie scores." Yeah, that sounds pretty dreamy to me. Check out an early track off Sweet Sleep,
