Neil Young
Piano Songs Vol 1 & 2
1970-2003

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Disc 1

01 Flying on the Ground is Wrong 12/05/70 NYC
02 There’s a World 01/27/71 Boston
03 The Bridge 02/27/71 London
04 Borrowed Tune 01/14/73 Buffalo
05 Soldier 01/21/73 NYC
06 A Man Needs a Maid
07 Heart of Gold 01/22/71 Stratford
08 Journey Thru the Past London (BBC)
09 Love in Mind 02/23/71 London (BBC)
10 Sweet Joni 03/11/73 Bakersfield
11 No One Seems to Know 03/05/76 Osaka
12 Birds 05/26/78 SF (early show)
13 Out of my Mind 05/26/78 SF (early show)
14 I Believe in You 03/28/70 Santa Monica
15 Stringman 03/31/76 London

Disc 2

01 Coastline 01/05/83 Santa Cruz
02 Don’t Take Your Love Away From me 03/22/85 Sydney
03 Winterlong 12/13/89 Rotterdam
04 Someday 12/13/89 Rotterdam
05 Helpless 04/28/89 Tokyo
06 Campaigner 02/18/92 NYC
07 Love is a Rose 05/18/92 Cleveland
08 Are you ready for the Country 05/18/92 Cleveland
09 Such a Woman 09/21/92 LA
10 Speakin’ Out 09/22/92 LA
11 Love Art Blues 11/22/92 Minneapolis
12 Homefires 11/22/92 Minneapolis
13 After the Goldrush 09/05/89 NYC
14 Tonight’s the Night 11/17/92 Chicago

Neil Young
Piano Songs II
1993-2004

01. Stringman (3:37) Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA 1993-03-01
02. Lotta Love (3:30) Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, Canada 1999-03-02
03. See the Sky About to Rain (4:27) Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA 1999-03-05
04. Flying On the Ground is Wrong (5:00) Arlene Schnitzer Hall, Portland, OR 1999-03-09
05. Out of Control (4:55) Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN 1999-05-23
06. Philadelphia (4:19) Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN 1999-05-23
07. Expecting to Fly (4:00) Falconer Salen, Copenhagen, Denmark 2003-04-27
08. Dangerbird (4:37) Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany 2003-05-01
09. Only Love Can Break Your Heart (3:15) >> Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany 2003-05-01
10. After the Gold Rush (4:29) Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany 2003-05-01
11. Birds (2:33) Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland 2003-05-13
12. No One Seems to Know (2:57) Carling Apollo Hammersmith, London, England 2003-05-18
13. Horseshoe Man (3:54) Carling Apollo Hammersmith, London, England 2003-05-19
14. On the Way Home (4:05) >> Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA 2004-09-15
15. Journey Through the Past (3:32) Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA 2004-09-15
16. Stringman (1:39) Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA 1993-03-01

“In early 1996, longtime Rusty, Shawn “Just Riding My Llama” McCorkle, decided that he liked Neil’s piano work so much that he grabbed a bunch of his favourite performances and made a special tape full of them.

“Shawn then performed a unique tree: hundreds of branch leaders, but no defined leaves! Rather than use the regular tree format, he temporarily accepted a 100-minute blank tape from anyone and everyone who sent one, and dubbed onto it a copy of his compilation.

“After over a hundred such dubs, he suspended the distribution and turned over follow-on distribution to those who have already been served.”

The criteria also required the songs be sung with intimacy. Hence some interesting onstage dialogue has been left on. Listen to Young confessing his love on Love In Mind, where he wrote this song and the mysterious girl who inspired him. It’s a song about a rambler who connects to his girl on the phone. Much like how SMSs have become the essential relationship tool.

Then there’s the softly, softly version of the Buffalo Springfield’s Out Of My Mind, with the candy-coating pop sucre removed. Neil Young has that quality to make a public performance sound very private, just for you. His songs are touching, with a genuine melody, and his searching voice in some ways was the voice of his ’60s generation, restless, earnest and always inquiring.

The jump to Set 2 is also a mood shift. On these tracks, Young shows he can party and the piano becomes a barroom piano and you’re right there in Neil Young’s saloon. Things sober up from 9, with Such A Woman, an almost dirgelike lament. A song seldom sung and found on his Harvest Moon album.