Just months after releasing what we thought was the unreleased Neil Young album ‘Oceanside/Countryside’ Neil has announced a new version with a completely different tracklisting.
‘Oceanside/Countryside’ was officially released (or so we thought) as CD 4 on ‘Archives Volume III’ in 2024.
When Archives Volume III was released in 2024 Neil said of ‘Oceanside/Countryside’, “After I was with The Ducks, I went to Florida and got on a boat called The WN Ragland, an old sailing ship, a Baltic trader. We recorded there at a studio called Triad. I loved it there. I did a lot of acoustic things and I did a few overdubs on them but it was mostly just me and my guitar doing ‘Oceanside/Countryside’.
“A lot of cool songs came out of that that made it onto other albums. This was not released. This is an unreleased one”.
Oceanside Countryside (1977): Neil Young
1. Rap
2. Field of Opportunity (previously unreleased mix)
3. It Might Have Been (previously unreleased version)
4. Dance Dance Dance (previously unreleased version)
5. Rap
6. Pocahontas (previously unreleased mix)
7. Peace of Mind (previously unreleased mix)
8. Sail Away (previously unreleased mix)
9. Human Highway (previously unreleased mix)
10. Comes A Time (previously unreleased version)
11. Lost In Space (previously released on Hawks & Doves)
12. Goin’ Back (previously unreleased mix)
But that isn’t the tracklisting for the 2025 version of ‘Oceanside/Countryside’.
In a new statement Neil says, “This analog original album was recorded in 1977 and unreleased. These songs are the original mixes done at the time of the recordings in the order I planned for the album. I sang the vocals and played the instruments on Oceanside in Florida at Triad studios and Malibu at Indigo studio. I sang the vocals and recorded with my great band of friends, Ben Keith, Joe Osborn, Karl T. Himmel, and Rufus Thibodeaux at Crazy Mama’s in Nashville on Countryside. I hope you enjoy this treasure of an Analog Original recording, recorded by Tim Mulligan, as much as I do. Listening to it now, I think I should have put it out back then”.
The 2024 tracklisting is:
TRACKLIST:
Side One: Oceanside
01 “Sail Away”
02 “Lost In Space”
03 “Captain Kennedy” (not on 2024 version)
04 “Goin’ Back”
05 “Human Highway”
Side Two: Countryside
01 “Field Of Opportunity”
02 “Dance Dance Dance”
03 “The Old Homestead” (not on 2024 version)
04 “It Might Have Been”
05 “Pocahontas”
On Archives Volume III ‘Captain Kennedy’ is on the ‘Hitchhiking Judy’ disc and ‘The Old Homestead’ surfaced as its own disc ‘The Old Homestead’ on Archives Volume II’.
With a 2024 ‘Oceanside/Countryside’ and now this new 2025 version Neil’s archives are getting sloppy and confusing and not to mention expensive and flippant for completists. It was great that the album was released in 2024 on Volume III but totally confusing to have an alternate version in 2025. Neil, what are you doing?
Side One: Oceanside credits:
1. Sail Away
Produced by Neil Young
Recorded at Triad Studios, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, September 12, 1977 with Michael Laskow and Paul Kaminsky.
Neil Young: Guitar, Vocals
2. Lost In Space
Produced by Neil Young
Recorded at Triad Recording Studios, Ft. Lauderdale September 15, 1977 with Michael Laskow and Paul Kaminsky.
Neil Young: Guitar, Vocals
3. Captain Kennedy
Produced by David Briggs, Tim Mulligan & Neil Young
Recorded at Indigo Ranch Studios, Malibu August 11, 1976 with Richard Kaplan
Neil Young: Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Vocals
Greg Thomas: Drums
Dennis Belfield: Bass
Ben Keith: Steel Guitar & Dobro
Rufus Thibodeaux: Fiddle
4. Goin’ Back
Produced by Neil Young
Recorded at Triad Studios, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, September 16, 1977 with Michael Laskow and Paul Kaminsky
Neil Young: Guitar, Stringman, Vocals
5 Human Highway
Produced by Neil Young
Recorded at Triad Studios, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, September 14, 1977 with Michael Laskow and Paul Kaminsky
Neil Young: Guitar, Vocals
Side Two: Countryside credits:
1. Field Of Opportunity
Produced by: Neil Young & Ben Keith
Recorded at: Crazy Mama’s, Nashville, TN, May 3, 1977
Neil Young: Guitar, Vocals
Ben Keith: Pedal Steel Guitar
Rufus Thibodeaux: Fiddle
Joe Osborn: Bass
Karl T. Himmel: Drums
2. Dance Dance Dance
Produced by: Neil Young & Ben Keith
Recorded at: Crazy Mama’s, Nashville, TN, May 3, 1977
Neil Young: Guitar, Vocals
Ben Keith: Dobro
Rufus Thibodeaux: Fiddle
Joe Osborn: Bass
Karl T. Himmel: Drums
3. The Old Homestead
Produced by: David Briggs, Elliot Mazer, Tim Mulligan & Neil Young
Recorded at: Quadrafonic Sound Studio, Nashville and Broken Arrow Studio, Redwood City, CA with Elliot Mazer
Neil Young: Guitar, Harmonica, Piano
Levon Helm: Drums
Tim Drummond: Bass
Ben Keith: Steel Guitar, Dobro
Rufus Thibodeaux: Fiddle
Tom Scribner: Saw Player
Levon Helm appears courtesy of MCA Records Inc.
4. It Might Have Been
Produced by: Neil Young & Ben Keith
Recorded at: Crazy Mama’s, Nashville, TN, May 3, 1977
Neil Young: Guitar, Vocal
Ben Keith: Pedal Steel Guitar
Rufus Thibodeaux: Fiddle
Joe Osborn: Bass
Karl T. Himmel: Drums
5. Pocahontas
Produced by: David Briggs and Neil Young
Recorded at: Indigo/Triad, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, September 4, 1977 with Michael Laskow and Paul Kaminsky.
Neil Young: Guitars, Vocals
Look for the standalone ‘Oceanside/Countryside’ on 14 February 2025.
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