Neil Young Opens Archive For ‘Blue Note Café’ Compilation

By Scott Bernstein Oct 9, 2015 8:00 am PDT

The next installment of the Neil Young Performance Series of live archival releases is Bluenote Café, an album collecting various performances from the legendary guitarist’s 1988 tour. Bluenote Café is due as a 2-CD set as well as a 4-vinyl LP set on November 13 via Reprise Records and can be pre-ordered here.

Neil Young’s Bluenote Café features seven unreleased songs: “Soul of a Woman,” “Bad News Comes to Town,” Ain’t it the Truth,” “I’m Goin’,” “Crime of the Heart,” “Doghouse,” “Fool for Your Love,” and a 19+ minute version of “Tonight’s the Night” from The Pier in New York City.

Young’s band featured on the release includes a full horn section as well as bassists Rick Rosas and Billy Talbot, keyboardist Frank Sampedro and drummers Chad Cromwell and Ralph Molina. Those pre-ordering the LP will receive an instant download of “Crime In The City” with the promise of more instant downloads to come before the album is released.

Listen to “Crime In The City” off the upcoming release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfLpOI1Z90

Last night Young dug deep as his Rebel Content tour with Promise Of The Real continued.

Tracklist

Disc 1:

  1. Welcome To The Big Room*
  2. Don’t Take Your Love Away From Me**
  3. This Note’s For You***
  4. Ten Men Workin’****
  5. In The City****
  6. Hello Lonely Woman****
  7. Soul Of A Woman****
  8. Married Man+
  9. Bad News Comes To Town++
  10. Ain’t It The Truth++
  11. One Thing++
  12. Twilight++

Disc 2:

  1. I’m Goin’#
  2. Ordinary People##
  3. Crime In The City###
  4. Crime Of The Heart####
  5. Welcome Rap####
  6. Doghouse####
  7. Fool For Your Love####
  8. Encore Rap####
  9. On The Way Home+++
  10. Sunny Inside####
  11. Tonight’s The Night####

Recorded on location at:

  • * Mt. View Theater, Mt. View, CA – 11/7/87
  • ** The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA – 11/12/87
  • *** The Palace, Hollywood, CA – 4/13/88
  • **** The World, NY, NY – 4/18/88
  • + The World, NY, NY – 4/21/88
  • ++ Agoura Ballroom, Cleveland, OH – 4/23/88
  • +++ Poplar Creek Music Theatre, Hoffman Estates, IL – 8/16/88
  • # CNE, Toronto, Canada – 8/18/88
  • ## Lake Compounce, Bristol, CT – 8/23/88
  • ### Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY – 8/27/88
  • #### Pier 84, NY, NY – 8/30/88

Band:

  • Neil Young – guitar & vocals
  • Bluenote Café:
  • Rick Rosas – bass
  • Chad Cromwell – drums
  • Frank Sampedro – keyboards
  • Steve Lawrence – lead tenor saxophone
  • Ben Keith – alto saxophone
  • Larry Cragg – baritone saxophone
  • Claude Cailliet – trombone
  • Tom Bray – trumpet
  • John Fumo – trumpet
  • Billy Talbot – bass
  • Ralph Molina – drums

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