Songs for Judy 2 LP

Songs For Judy is a thoroughly engaging collection of live acoustic performances culled from Neil’s November 1976 solo tour and features twenty-two songs recorded at various cities along the tour. This song cycle of live recordings is particularly powerful and unique as you’ll hear. Young had spent much of the year on tour around the world with Crazy Horse and touring on his own, he found a way to recharge and focus on songs that would not surface in recorded form for several years. Of the albums many treasures, “No One Seems To Know” would not see the light of day until now and remains unreleased in any other iteration.
 
The raw versions of the tracks found on Songs For Judy reflect an artist completely unvarnished and unafraid to allow the songs to breath and find their own shape when performed in a solo setting. Songs written in that era would come into focus and then seemingly disappear only to re-enter Young’s orbit somewhere down the road. “White Line” and “Give Me Strength” are such examples of finding the light in 1990 and 2017 respectively.  It’s also fascinating to hear Young revisit early gems such as Springfield’s “Mr. Soul” (’67), “Here We Are In The Years” (’68), and “The Losing End” (’69) from some of his earliest solo recordings and remain as timeless as ever.

Artist: Neil Young
Release date: 11/30/2018
Produced by: Joel Bernstein, Cameron Crowe, David Briggs & Neil Young
Musicians: Neil Young: vocal, acoustic guitar, banjo, piano, harmonica, stringman