The night Neil Young became Neil Young

 

Where were you on the night of Nov. 9, 1968?

I think I was watching "Bewitched" or "Beverly Hillbillies."

The people at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan, were being treated to the coming-out party of Neil Young as a solo artist.

Young, just about to turn 23, had departed from Buffalo Springfield six months earlier. The gig was an "experiment" to see if Young could be effective with his music stripped down to just voice and acoustic guitar.

We all know the answer, and it was evident for two nights of music and storytelling captured on a TEAC 2 track tape recorder.

On Nov. 25, Reprise will release "Sugar Mountain Live At Canterbury House 1968" as part of the continuing Neil Young Archive Performance Series.

Here is the track list:

1. (Emcee intro)

2. On The Way Home

3. Songwriting rap

4. Mr. Soul

5. Recording rap

6. Expecting To Fly

7. The Last Trip To Tulsa

8. Bookstore rap

9. The Loner

10. "I used to" rap

11. Birds

12. Winterlong (excerpt) and Out of My Mind - intro

13. Out Of My Mind

14. If I Could Have Her Tonight

15. Classical Gas rap

16. Sugar Mountain - intro

17. Sugar Mountain

18. I've Been Waiting For You

19. Songs rap

20. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing

21. Tuning Rap & The Old Laughing Lady - intro

22. The Old Laughing Lady

23. Broken Arrow