This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone familiar with Neil Young’s release schedule, but whispers of a new album named Hitchhiker have reached our ears. Obviously, the man simply couldn’t go a year or two without putting out new tunes.
Somewhat of a long-lost treasure, the album was recorded at Malibu’s Indigo Ranch Studios in 1976.
After 40 years spent in a drawer somewhere, the long-lost Hitchhiker by Neil Young will reach your ears as early as this July.
Young fansite Thrasher’s Wheat stumbled across Hitchhiker listed on online vinyl store Diverse Vinyl, with a release date of July 14. The site also pointed out that Young had written about Hitchhiker in his memoir Special Deluxe, revealing some details about the single-day recording process.
“I spent the night there with David and recorded nine solo acoustic songs, completing a tape I called Hitchhiker. It was a complete piece, although I was pretty stony on it, and you can hear it in my performances.”
“Dean Stockwell, my friend and a great actor who I later worked on Human Highway as a co-director, was with us that night, sitting in the room with me as I laid down all the songs in a row, pausing only for weed, beer, or coke. Briggs was in the control room, mixing live on his favorite console.”
Tracklist
01. Powderfinger
02. Hold Back The Tears
03. Human Highway
04. Hitchhiker
05. Ride My Llama
06. Lookout For My Love
07. Lotta Love
08. Fontainebleau
09. Campaigner
Via FACT Mag.
