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1. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
2. Winterlong
3. Down By The River
4. Wonderin’
5. Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown
6. Cowgirl In The Sand

Total time: 43:15

Live at the Fillmore East 1970
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Reprise

The first release in the Neil Young Archives Performance Series is a quintessential, long overdue document culled from a two-night stand less than a year after his finest album: “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” with Crazy Horse. There are several reasons to get it:

  • Original second guitarist Danny Whitten
  • Two songs not committed to vinyl until years later – “Winterlong” and “Wonderin’ ”
  • Even lengthier workouts of “Down by the River” and “Cowgirl in the Sand”
  • Producer Jack Nitzsche on keyboards

It’s also a clue to how the archival material Young’s been promising for 16 years will shape up: Good New Music has it from a reliable source that the Performance Series will not supplant the much-anticipated archival box set series Young has mentioned, contrary to speculation on fan websites and blogs. The Neil Young Archives multibox set is still in the works, with the first of four boxes slated for fall 2007.

Each of the four boxes will be a chronological volume of previously released and unreleased live and studio songs (including some that have never been on record), according to the source. As Young has said, all the songs will be presented in the order they were recorded, but listeners also will be able to hear unreleased albums such as “Homegrown” in their entirety.

Installments in the Performance Series will be chronologically numbered, some released individually, others as bonus discs in the archival box sets. “Fillmore” is Disc 02 in the series. Only Young knows what Disc 01 will be, the source said, “and he ain’t talking!”

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