Tag: Jack Nitzsche

  • Leo Kottke, Self-Titled, 1976 on Chrysalis

    Leo Kottke, Self-Titled, 1976 on Chrysalis

    Kottke’s first album on Chrysalis (after six on Capitol): a fully instrumental album produced by Denny Bruce with arrangements by Jack Nitzsche My copy via the Salem Flea Marketplace is a 1977 pressing on Chrysalis labels.

  • Neil Young, Time Fades Away, 1973 on Reprise

    Neil Young, Time Fades Away, 1973 on Reprise

    Live album recorded with the Stray Gators on the tour following the release of Harvest. The rear cover lists the venues at which each track was recorded as well as the members of the Stray Gators (Tim Drummond, Johnny Barbata, Jack Nitzsche, and Ben Keith) and special guests David Crosby and Graham Nash. Reportedly Young…

  • Neil Young, Neil Young, 1969 on Reprise

    Neil Young, Neil Young, 1969 on Reprise

    Young’s debut solo album. It can be tricky to keep all the chronology straight here, as someone who came to Young much later in his career – but this is following his departure from Buffalo Springfield and before the first Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young record. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (with Crazy Horse) was…

  • Neil Young, Harvest, 1972 on Reprise

    Neil Young, Harvest, 1972 on Reprise

    Definitely one of my desert island discs (unless I can cheat and count Decade as one release), Harvest came out in 1972. This would be an absolute classic even if you took out two or three songs: Out on the Weekend, Harvest, A Man Needs a Maid, Heart of Gold, Old Man – then closing…