A special club gig played by Neil Young and Crazy Horse on November 13, 1990 at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California, will be released as an album and film titled Way Down in the Rust Bucket on December 6th.
Young has previewed selections of the show at the Neil Young Archives in recent months, but the full show has never been seen. It’s just one of many archival versions Young is planning in the coming months.
According to a new post on the Neil Young Archives, Return to Greendale – which chronicles in 2003 stop on the Greendale tour – also coming on November 6th. On the same day, he also plans to release the long-awaited second part of his Neil Song Archives fax. There is no information on the exact contents of that set, but it should focus on his work from 1973 to 1978.
Also in the works is the concert film The timeless Orpheum, which was filmed at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 28, 2019. “It’s a concert film with a lot of twists and turns,” Young writes, “tell my story and you and our history together.”
As with everything else in Neil Young’s world, the dates for all of these projects should be seen as preliminary. He has a long history of delaying plans when other projects get his attention.
“These days, like you, I have stayed home as much as possible, and that’s a lot,” Young writes. “I have been at work, busy with projects that have arisen because of the crisis we are sharing.”
The NYA Official Bootleg Series is another project he has announced in recent weeks. It is about official release of famous Neil Young concerts that have been bootlegged over the years. “We have many of our masters, dating from 1970 and possibly earlier, from bootlegs that have been released in many forms of my music,” Young writes. “We are proud to stand with the outlaw companies that pioneered these releases in their desire to get this music out.”
