Neil Young has announced the upcoming double-album reissue of his 1990 studio album with Crazy Horse, Ragged Glory. Young’s 18th career studio album (his sixth with Crazy Horse) was initially released back in September 1990, following extensive rehearsal sessions with the band at California’s Plywood Analog studio. Those sessions ended up churning out an additional 38 minutes of recorded material, which has been recently rediscovered by John Hanlon, one of the recording engineers who worked on the album with Young and Crazy Horse.
The original album is 62 minutes of pure, unadulterated garage rock joy. The distortion friendly project includes a mix of guitar-friendly songs ranging from the less-than-three-minute “White Line” to a pair of 10+ minute jams in “Love to Burn” and “Love and Only Love”. Those were just a few of the songs which Young and Crazy Horse would play and rehearse twice a day for two weeks during the album’s pre-production, which is where this plentiful bounty of extra recorded material comes from, most of which has never been heard by fans.
The announcement from the Neil Young Archives website also gives fans an idea of what kind of quality these unheard songs and recordings carry, and it’s apparently very good.
“Listening to these tracks is a real head-scratcher,” it reads in a statement shared by the website. “They are equal to anything on the existing record, maybe better. Possibly, the thought at the time was to have a single album and not include the songs from the last half of the unique ‘set oriented’ recording sessions.”
The reissue is planned to be titled Ragged Glory II, although no official release date has been announced as of Tuesday. Fans should expect the double-album to arrive sometime early in the coming year, possibly on all three formats of vinyl, CD and high-definition digital.
News of the upcoming reissue follows a slightly entertaining few weeks of opposition between Young and promoter British Summer Time. The rock guitarist was prematurely announced to co-headline an outdoor concert in London’s Hyde Park with Bob Dylan and His Band next July, although that event seems to be up in the air with Young vehemently opposed to playing any show with Barclays Bank on as a presenting sponsor. Regardless of what happens over in Britain next summer, Young will play a run of solo concerts in Wisconsin and Milwaukee next month, with tickets to the shows available for purchase here.
[H/T Rolling Stone]
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