NEIL YOUNG "Lucky Thirteen" 1993 Import Double LP Flyer

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Neil Young / Lucky Thirteen - Geffen Records GEF24452 (Stereo)(Germany)(1993) ...This auction is for an Import Issue Double Record on high-quality (German) vinyl. Also included with this hard to find album is an original (promotional only) 1-sided information flyer (approx. 8.5" X 11" in size) with track listings and release notes (pictured).

  Geffen Records intended a straightforward "best of" compilation containing the singles released from Neil Young's five albums with the label between 1982 and 1987. Then Young himself became involved, and his version of a Geffen sampler naturally turned out to be more unusual. There were four songs never before released on a Young album: "Depression Blues" had been recorded for the first, rejected version of the country-ish Old Ways; "Get Gone" (a soundalike to "Willie and the Hand Jive") and the bluesy "Don't Take Your Love Away From Me" were live recordings with the "Shocking Pinks" rockabilly band that made Everybody's Rockin'; and "Ain't It the Truth" was a live recording from the Bluenotes tour that came just as Young was leaving Geffen. There were also an alternate version of "Sample and Hold" from Trans that ran an extra few minutes and a live take of "This Note's for You," the title song from Young's 1988 return to Reprise Records.

Track listings and review below...

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Detailed item info:

Track listing
Record 1:
(Side One)
1. Sample and Hold
2. Transformer Man
3. Depression Blues

(Side Two)
1. Get Gone
2. Don't Take Your Love Away from Me
3. Once an Angel
4. Where Is the Highway Tonight?

Record 2:
(Side Three)
1. Hippie Dream
2. Pressure
3. Around the World
4. Mideast Vacation

(Side Four)
1. Ain't It the Truth
2. This Note's for You

Details Contributing artists: Waylon Jennings, Crazy Horse, Ben Keith, Gail Davies, Rufus Thibodeaux, Mary Ann Kennedy, Pam Rose, Pamela Rose, Janis Oliver-Gill Distributor: Universal Distribution Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo
Album notes Personnel includes: Neil Young (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, Synclavier, keyboards, bass, harmonica); Waylon Jennings (vocals); David Kirby (acoustic guitar); Ben Keith (guitar, saxophone); Danny Kortchmar (guitar, synthesizer, vocals), Ralph Mooney (pedal steel guitar); Rufus Thibodeaux, Gordon Terry (fiddle); Craig Hayes as "Vito Toledo," (baritone saxophone); John Fumo (trumpet); Claude Cailliet (trombone); Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano); Larry Byrom (piano, vocals, trumpet); Rick Palombi (piano, tambourine, vocals); Spooner Oldham (organ); Rick Rosas (bass); Karl Himmel, Chad Cromwell (drums); Steve Jordan (drums, vocals); Pam Rose, Janis Oliver-Gill, Mary Ann Kennedy, Gail Davies (background vocals).
Crazy Horse: Frank "Pancho" Sampedro (guitar, keyboards); Billy Talbot (bass); Ralph Molina (drums).
Producers: David Briggs, Elliot Mazer, Tim Mulligan, Ben Keith, Danny Kortchmar, Niko Bolas, Neil Young.
Engineers: Elliot Mazer, Niko Bolas, Tim Mulligan, Dave Hewitt, Gary Long, Gene Eichelberger.
Audio Remixers: David Briggs ; Richard Kaplan.
Recording information: Agoura, Cleveland, OH; Castle Recording Studio, Franklin, TN; Hara Arena, Dayton, OH; House Of David Studios, Nashville, TN; Modern Recorders, Redwood City, CA; Palace, Hollywood, CA; Record One Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Universal Amphitheater.
Director: Elliot Roberts.
Editors: Neil Young; Tim Mulligan.
Photographer: Mike Lawson.

Subtitled EXCURSIONS INTO ALIEN TERRITORY, LUCKY THIRTEEN is a compilation of material Neil Young recorded during the '80s, a time when he was roaming all over the musical map in search of inspiration. Some of the more unusual byways traveled by Young included Gary Numan-flavored electro-pop ("Pressure,") traditional country ("Once An Angel") and rockabilly ("Get Gone.") The furthest out Young's adventurousness took him was on TRANS, an album in which use of the term avant-garde is an understatement. Strapping himself into a vocoder and diving headfirst into a bank of Synclaviers, Young came up with songs such as "Sample And Hold" and "Transformer Man," which are about as far away as you can get from the crunching guitar and gritty playing most identifiable with his '70s work.
Despite the constant changing of musical gears that went on during the '80s, Neil Young's songwriting still maintained a cantankerous air. Whether he was deriding the selling out of musical ideals for commercial gain ("This Note's For You") or pointing out the failings of the late '60s counter-culture ("Hippie Dream,") Neil Young continued down his own path on all levels.

Editorial reviews 3.5 Stars - Good Plus - ...[an] ambitious project...
Down Beat  (19930401)

3 Stars - Good
Q  (19930201)

...This sampling from Neil Young's mid-'80s Geffen stint reminds us how many of his experiments actually worked....Young ricochets from style to style like a crazed cue ball, but more often than not he finds his pocket... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly  (19930115)

4 Stars - Excellent - ...Young tries to show how the emotional impulses behind his songwriting, performing and recording methods remain constant as his styles vary....lays out the crucial reasons why Neil Young perseveres and triumphs... Village Voice (3/9/93, p.80) - ...just about every one of these 13 selections is a good song... - Rating: A-
Rolling Stone  (19930429)