It left me wishing there were more of it on the album, and this is the album’s only drawback. Young is funny and playful (“You’d laugh too, you know, if this is what you did for a living”). Young’s patter before the finale song, Flying On The Ground Is Wrong, is a great treat. With Young using the piano on this song for “the first time,” as he notes at the end of it, the song sounds more sincere here than on the rockier 1969 studio recording. There is also a Byrds song, See The Sky About To Rain, which features an interesting music box-y piano solo.īad Fog Of Loneliness, a rare song never featured on a studio album, is a lovely gem: the story of a relationship told in just two minutes.Ĭinnamon Girl is a delightful oddity. I love how the song has a gentle beginning but then a crash boom ending. The best of these in this performance is Expecting To Fly, with its morphing time signature and Young’s vocals at their most delicate. The album features three Buffalo Springfield songs, one from each of their studio albums. I love the incredible imagery in this song and this version of it is excellent: full of feeling. The album’s opener Tell Me Why, is spritely and warm and features some excellent guitar work, more of which can be heard on the crowd pleasing Old Man.Īfter The Gold Rush holds a special significance for me, as it is a song that I play and sing with my dad. It was known for its strict “no talking” rule. King, Muddy Waters, Tom Waits and Miles Davis. The Cellar Door was a tiny club in Washington D.C. Neil Young’s Live At The Cellar Door, recorded in 1970 and released officially now for the first time is a beautiful performance featuring songs from an interesting variety of origins.
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