''Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968'' is a

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by Canadian-American musician

Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. Since the begi ...

. On November 8–10, 1968, Young performed three solo acoustic shows at Canterbury House in

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. The album is compiled from the performances on the 9th and 10th.

Recording

The recording of the song " Sugar Mountain" from this appearance was previously released as a single

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and on Young's 1977 compilation album ''

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''.

Release

This album is Volume 00 in the '' Archives Performance Series''. Since volumes two and three had already been released, this album, though performed earlier chronologically, is the third release from the Series. '' The Riverboat 1969'', released in '' The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972'' in 2009, is the fourth Archive Performance Series released but was performed earlier chronologically than volumes two and three. The album was released only as a CD/DVD set, with the DVD containing a high-definition audio version of the album, playable on standard DVD players. The DVD also contains a trailer for Young's ''Archives Vol. 1'' box set. A

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version of the album, pressed on 200-gram Japanese vinyl, was released in April 2009. The album's cover is a photograph of Young taken in 1967 by

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, later the wife of

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Track listing

All compositions written by

except where indicated. ;Disc 1 (CD) # Emcee intro – 0:45 # "On the Way Home" – 2:52 # Songwriting Rap – 3:13 # " Mr. Soul" – 3:14 # Recording Rap – 0:30 # " Expecting to Fly" – 2:49 # "The Last Trip to Tulsa" – 8:36 # Bookstore Rap – 4:27 # " The Loner" – 4:41 # "I Used to..." Rap – 0:38 # "Birds – 2:17 # "Winterlong" (excerpt) and "Out of My Mind" Intro – 1:38 # "Out of My Mind" – 2:07 # "If I Could Have Her Tonight" – 2:34 #

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Rap (

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/Young) – 0:41 # "Sugar Mountain" Intro – 0:29 # " Sugar Mountain" – 5:47 # " I've Been Waiting for You" – 2:04 # Songs rap – 0:38 # "

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" – 4:43 # Tuning Rap and "The Old Laughing Lady" Intro – 3:06 # "The Old Laughing Lady" – 7:26 # " Broken Arrow" – 5:09

Bonus tracks

# "I Am a Child" (

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-only bonus track) – # "#1 Hit Record Rap" (hidden MP3 bonus track) – ;Disc 2 (DVD-Audio) # Emcee intro – 0:45 # "On the Way Home" – 2:52 # Songwriting Rap – 3:13 # " Mr. Soul" – 3:14 # Recording Rap – 0:30 # "Expecting to Fly" – 2:49 # "The Last Trip to Tulsa" – 8:36 # Bookstore Rap – 4:27 # "The Loner" – 4:41 # "I Used to..." Rap – 0:38 # "Birds – 2:17 # "Winterlong" (excerpt) and "Out of My Mind" Intro – 1:38 # "Out of My Mind" – 2:07 # "If I Could Have Her Tonight" – 2:34 # Classical Gas Rap (Williams/Young) – 0:41 # "Sugar Mountain" Intro – 0:29 # " Sugar Mountain" – 5:47 # " I've Been Waiting for You" – 2:04 # Songs rap – 0:38 # "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" – 4:43 # Tuning Rap and "The Old Laughing Lady" Intro – 3:06 # "The Old Laughing Lady" – 7:26 # " Broken Arrow" – 5:09

Personnel

*Neil Young – guitar, vocals, production Additional roles *Joel Bernstein – archiving *John Nowland – analog to digital transferring *Tim Mulligan – editing and mastering *John Hausmann – assistant engineering *Harry Sitam – engineering *Linda McCartney – cover photograph DVD production *Bernard Shakey (Neil Young) – direction *L.A. Johnson – production *Elliot Rabinowitz – executive production *Toshi Onuki – art direction *Will Mitchell – production coordination

Charts

References

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