NEIL YOUNG "Neil Young" Rare Original 1968 US Rock LP

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Neil Young / Neil Young - Reprise Records RS-6317 (Stereo)(US)(1968) ...This auction is for an original Issue Record on U.S. vinyl. It is a first pressing with the original mixes that were later remixed. Several months after the album's release, Neil Young remixed it to bring out his vocals more and added some overdubs. The second version replaced the first in the U.S. from then on making this original version very hard to find.

  Track listings and review below...

  The Record (no RE-1 in trail-off vinyl) and Gatefold Cover are in great (Very Good++) condition (cover is clean with some light wear (no split seams or writing)/record looks and sounds great). Record will include a high quality resealable plastic outer record sleeve. Satisfaction Guaranteed.  For payment please use Paypal (other payments are no longer accepted due to eBay’s new policy. If that is a problem, please let them know and contact us to work something out). Payment and Shipping information is listed below but S/H charges will include actual postage rate (plus $1-2 for shipping supplies). All items are shipped worldwide (except Russia*). Specialized shipping is extra ~ Not responsible for uninsured items ~ Insurance (US prices only) is $2.50 for $5.00 to $200.00 in coverage (Foreign Insurance can be expensive and complicated) ...Thank you (*previous USSR bidders are accepted except ????? ?????? who is no longer a trusted/wanted bidder)  (Click the (me) file next to the feedback score for our seller profile)

Detailed item info:

Track listing
(Side One)
1. The Emperor of Wyoming
2. The Loner
3. If I Could Have Her Tonight
4. I've Been Waiting for You
5. The Old Laughing Lady

(Side Two)
1. String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill
2. Here We Are in the Years
3. What Did You Do to My Life?
4. I've Loved Her So Long
5. The Last Trip to Tulsa

Details Distributor: Warner Bros./Reprise Records (USA) Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo
Album notes Personnel includes: Neil Young (vocals, guitar); Jim Messina (bass); George Grantham (drums); Merry Clayton, Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Gloria Richetta Jones, Sherlie Matthews, Gracia Nitzsche (background vocals).
Personnel: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, harpsichord); Sherlie Matthews, Gracia Nitzsche, Patrice Holloway, Gloria Jones (vocals, background vocals); Jack Nitzsche (guitar, electric piano, keyboards); Earl Palmer , George Grantham (drums); Merry Clayton, Brenda Holloway (background vocals).
Recording information: Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA; Sunwest Recording Studios; Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco, CA.
Producers: Dave Briggs, Neil Young, Jack Nitzsche, Ryland Cooder.
Engineers include: Mark Richardson, Donn Landee, Dale Batchelor.
Arrangers: Jack Nitzsche; Neil Young.

Neil Young's first solo record is quite a bit different from the sound he would later develop--not that anyone could ever know what to expect from this mercurial visionary. This album, though, is a bit artier and less spontaneous-sounding than most of Young's catalog. That's not to say that he hadn't already developed a gift for writing unique, captivating material. He'd already shown that ability with Buffalo Springfield, and NEIL YOUNG is full of great, idiosyncratic tunes.
The most well-known cut here is the most traditional rock-sounding tune, "The Loner," but even here Young sings of disaffection and isolation, over an arrangement that shifts between distorted guitar and elegant string section. "The Old Laughing Lady" is probably the most Springfieldish song here, and along with the country flavor of some of the other tunes, provides a link to Young's past. The piece de resistance is the closing acoustic epic, "The Last Trip To Tulsa," a surreal, Dylanesque number that showed Young already blazing his own trail in the world of rock poets.