Neil Young was just a few days shy of his 23rd birthday when he took the stage at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Mich., for what would become a legendary performance. It was 1968, and Young was about to release his self-titled debut solo album. His old band, Buffalo Springfield, had split up six months earlier, and few people even knew who Young was. But to his own surprise, and to the surprise of the Canterbury House, Young drew a sold-out audience.
For many years "Sugar Mountain" was a coveted non-LP B side — a Neil Young ballad about childhood's end written before he was out of his teens and taped during this solo engagement shortly before the release of his first solo LP. The song was a rare flick of retrospect. Young charges forward here, playing half of the imminent Neil Young in pristine, tremulous-vocal form and reclaiming six of his Buffalo Springfield songs, including "Expecting to Fly," majestically scored for 1967's Buffalo Springfield Again yet as powerful here without a stitch of strings.
01. Intro
02. On The Way Home
03. Songwriting Rap
04. Mr. Soul
05. Recording Rap
06. Expecting To Fly
07. The Last Trip To Tulsa
08. Bookstore Rap
09. The Loner
10. I Used To...Rap
11. Birds
12. Winterlong (Excerpt) & Out Of My Mind - Intro
13. Out Of My Mind
14. If I Could Have Her Tonight
15. Classical Gas Rap
16. Sugar Mountain - Intro
17. Sugar Mountain
18. I've Been Waiting For You
19. Songs Rap
20. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
21. Tuning Rap & The Old Laughing Lady - Intro
22. The Old Laughing Lady
23. Broken Arrow
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