A Letter Home (Vinyl) – Neil Young

Get two of the coolest dudes in rock together and this is what you get. Neil came down to Third Man’s Nashville headquarters to record a killer collection of covers with Jack White, utilizing a refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth (which could barely house Clark Kent changing into Superman, but sounds awesome). This new album has the warm, primitive vibe of a vintage Folkways recording: live-to-one-track (mono) recordings of Bert Jansch’s Needle of Death ; Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country ; Willie Nelson’s Crazy ; Don Everly’s I Wonder if I Care As Much ; Bruce Springsteen’s My Home Town, and more songs that have personal meaning for Neil. This is a joy to behold on CD or 180-gram black vinyl. That joy gets ratcheted up in the deluxe edition here, which features two 180-gram black vinyl LPs (standard and audiophile versions), the album on CD, a DVD with footage of the album’s recording, a 12″ x 12″ full-color booklet, a download card for the hi-res audiophile version of the album and the grand finale: six 7″ clear-vinyl 33 rpm discs, the seventh of which features Neil’s version of Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind B&W an alternate take/arrangement of Crazy. An inspired collaboration crossing two generations of revered rock stars, with an ultra-lavish boxed set as the encore! Reprise/Third Man.

Track List

1. A Letter Home
2. Changes (Phil Ochs)
3. Girl from North Country (Bob Dylan)
4. Needle of Death (Bert Jansch)
5. Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
6. Crazy (Willie Nelson)
7. Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin)
8. On the Road Again (Willie Nelson)
9. If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
10. Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter)
11. My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen)
12. I Wonder If I Care As Much (Don Everly)