Artist:  Neil Young

Title:  Neil Young

Date:  1968

Label:  Reprise Records   RS 6317

Art Direction: Ed Thrasher

Portrait: Roland Diehl

Apple Girl: Lance Sterling

Liner Photo: Danny Kelly

Notes:  Assisted by Ry Cooder this early Young album lacks the hits, but has the heart. You can hear Neil finding his voice and style here. Always a storyteller he takes us along for the journey. Feel the dust on the wind, the bite of cheap whiskey, the twinge from a moments eye contact with the same woman that every other man in the room is looking at. But the look you got was special. That's what Neil makes us feel, that he's talking to us personally, with his voice, his story and his music. A very sixties portrait with a flowing sky and reflected city on the front, a folk-art apple girl on the back. Those that like him love him, those that don't have their reasons.

I've been told that this is a reissue. The original had no name at the top of the cover.

Track Listing

Side 1

The Emporer of Wyoming
The Loner
If I Could Have Her Tonight
I've Been Waiting for You
The Old Laughing Lady

Side 2

String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill
Here We Are in the Years
What Did You Do To My Life
I've Loved Her So Long
The Last Trip to Tulsa