Way Down in the Rust Bucket is a live album and concert film from Canadian-American rock musician Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse, released on February 26, 2021. It is Volume 11.5 in the Performance Series of Neil Young Archives.
Recording and release
The album was recorded on November 13, 1990 at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA, where the band was warming up for their upcoming Ragged Glory tour. The show consisted of three sets and an encore, featuring most of recently released Ragged Glory, as well as older fan favourites and deeper cuts. Guitarist Poncho Sampedro remembers the show fondly in a March 2021 interview for Rolling Stone:
Due to temporary power loss, the multitrack recording of "Cowgirl in the Sand" was damaged; it was decided to remove the song from the CD and LP running order (which also allowed to limit the release format to two CDs/four LPs). "Cowgirl in the Sand" appears only on the DVD version, with dropout sections augmented by lower-fidelity FOH mix.
Young announced the release on his site on January1, 2020 with the intention to release it that year along with Greendale Live, which was later retitled Return to Greendale, a 2003 rock opera that also features Crazy Horse. This album was initially scheduled to come out on October16, 2020 before being postponed to January15, 2021 and later February26. Young has also previously shown all the concert video footage of this show as part of the Movietone section of his Archives website.
Critical reception
Way Down in the Rust Bucket was met with acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 85 based on 7 reviews.
Track listing
All songs written by Neil Young except as noted.
Disc one
Disc two
DVD
Country Home
Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze
Love to Burn
Days That Used to Be
Bite the Bullet
Cinnamon Girl
Farmer John
Cowgirl in the Sand
Over and Over
Danger Bird
Don't Cry No Tears
Sedan Delivery
Roll Another Number (For the Road) Fuckin' Up T-Bone Homegrown Mansion on the Hill Like a Hurricane Love and Only Love Cortez the Killer
Personnel
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Neil Young– vocals, guitar
Ralph Molina– drums, vocals
Frank Sampedro– guitar, Stringman, vocals
Billy Talbot– bass guitar, vocals
Engineering and production
Neil Young, David Briggs– production
John Hanlon– recording, mixing
Charts
References
External links
Review of the show from Neil Young News
2021 live albums
Neil Young live albums
Crazy Horse (band) albums
albums produced by David Briggs (producer)