1. Box sets
    Volume 1: 1963–1972  Volume 2: 1972–1982  Volume 3 (1980s)  Volume 4 (1990s)  Volume 5 (2000s) 

2. Performance Series
    Volume 00: Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968  Volume 01: Live at the Riverboat 1969  Volume 02: Live at the Fillmore East 1970  Volume 02.5: Live at the Cellar Door  Volume 03: Live at Massey Hall 1971  Volume 04  Volume 05: Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live 1973  Volume 06  Volume 07: Songs for Judy  Volume 08  Volume 09: A Treasure  Volume 10  Volume 11: Bluenote Café  Volume 12: Dreamin' Man Live '92 

3. Official Release Series
    Official Release Series 01:  Official Release Series 02:  Official Release Series 03:  Official Release Series 04:  Official Release Series 05:  Official Release Series 06:  Official Release Series 07:  Official Release Series 08:  Official Release Series 08.5:  Official Release Series 09:  Official Release Series 10:  Official Release Series 11:  Official Release Series 12:  Official Release Series 13:  Official Release Series 14: 

4. Digital Masterpiece Series

5. Special Release Series
    Volume 05: Hitchhiker  Volume 10: Original Soundtrack from "Paradox" movie 

6. Notes

7. External links

The Neil Young Archives is a longtime project by singer-songwriter Neil Young which started as a series of archival releases featuring previously released as well as unreleased studio and live recordings, and eventually developed into a website featuring almost the whole Young's recording output throughout his career, available for streaming in high resolution audio format. The project has been long in the making – work began in the late 1980s. Throughout its development, Young himself has made several statements about the material included, release dates, and marketing that have proven false as the project was modified for new multimedia formats and expanded upon to accommodate new releases or other relevant material.^[1] Young has said that there will be five volumes covering approximately 50 years.^[2]

The archives are divided into several series. The main part is a series of box sets covering separate periods of the artist's career. The Performance Series consists of individual releases of live material. Finally, there is the Special Edition series which will consist of previously unreleased albums. These different series also overlap; since, for example, two volumes of the Performance Series are included on the first Archives box set release, but are also sold separately.

Box sets

Volume 1: 1963–1972

The first volume, The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972, was released June 2, 2009, covering Young's early years with The Squires and Buffalo Springfield, as well as cuts, demos, outtakes and alternate mixes from his albums Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush, and Harvest. Also included in the set are several live discs, as well as a DVD of the long out-of-print film Journey Through the Past, directed by Young in the early 1970s.

Volume 1 was released as a set of 10 Blu-ray discs in order to present high resolution audio as well as accompanying visual documentation.^[3] It is also available as a 10 disc DVD set and an 8-CD set. On January 31, 2010, the box set won the Grammy Award for Best Art Direction on a Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, and was shared by Neil Young along with his art directors Gary Burden and Jenice Heo.

Volume 2: 1972–1982

Young's manager Elliot Roberts said in 2009 that Volume 2 would span 1972 through 1982,^[4] and would be released "two or three years" after Volume 1.^[4] In October 2009, Young told Guitar World that a disc called Time Fades Away II would be included in the second volume, noting: "It's interesting because [Time Fades Away II] has a different drummer than what was on that album. Kenny Buttrey was in there for the first half, and Johnny Barbata came in for the second. It's a completely different thing, with completely different songs."^[5] Young has said that "four unreleased albums from this period are being rebuilt ... Chrome Dreams, Homegrown and Oceanside-Countryside are the three unreleased studio albums. Also from this period is the unreleased Odeon-Budokan live recording produced by David Briggs and Tim Mulligan".^[6]

In May 2014, Young stated that Volume 2 would be finished by the summer, and that the remaining volumes would be issued relatively quickly following the second.^[7] In July 2016, Rolling Stone and the Thrasher's Wheat website reported that Young intends to focus on completing Archives Volume 2 after his tour with Promise of the Real concludes in October. Although a physical release is still planned, it will involve a "high-resolution website" and will also include unreleased works entitled Dume and Hitchhiker. Hitchhiker was released as a standalone album on September 8, 2017. In August 2018, in response to an enquiring fan in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section of the NYA Times-Contrarian area of his website, Neil had the following to say:

"May 2019 the NYA V2 CDs and a separate book by Toshi Onuki will be available. Blu Ray is no longer viable for economic reasons. NYA can give you what the blu ray had though, including Hi Res audio. Thanks NY." ^[8]

In March 2019, in response to another fan enquiring on its release in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section of the NYA, "NYA vol 2 late this year/before Christmas. Odeon-Budokon is on volume 2 as an album. NYA" ^[9]

Volume 3 (1980s)

Little information about Volume 3 of the Archives has been announced. However, the website for Young's Living With War album contains several live recordings of songs from Life, which the page cites as being "From The Neil Young Archives, Volume 3."^[10]

Volume 4 (1990s)

Volume 4 will likely feature tracks from the 1990s.

Volume 5 (2000s)

Elliot Roberts and Neil Young have said that the Archives project will extend into a fifth volume, which should include songs from 2009's Fork in the Road and the unreleased Toast album, which was recorded with Crazy Horse in 2000.^[2][4][11] Since the "two or three years" arrival time for Vol. 2 after the release of Vol. 1 is now over six years in the past with no sign of Vol. 2 on the horizon, the chances that Vol. 4, never mind Vol. 5, will be issued in Young's lifetime is slim indeed.

Performance Series

The series of box sets were preceded by individual concert releases, dubbed the Archives Performance Series. This section contains details of releases so far. The releases are ordered in chronological order of recording. The albums were released in a different order, with Volume 2 coming in 2006, Volume 3 in 2007 and Volume 1 included in the first Archives box.

Volume 00: Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968

Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968 is labeled Volume 00 in the Performance Series, but was the third in the series to be released. It features recordings from Young's solo acoustic performances at Canterbury House on 9–10 November 1968. The album was released on December 2, 2008.

Volume 01: Live at the Riverboat 1969

Volume 1 is entitled Live at the Riverboat 1969 and is taken from a series of shows at the Riverboat Coffeehouse in Toronto in February, 1969, recorded by Brian Ahern. The CD was released as part of the Archives Vol. 1 in June 2009. Chrome Dreams II from certain retailers also included a bonus CD with a preview track from the Riverboat. Different outlets had different CDs, each with a different preview track.^[12]

Volume 02: Live at the Fillmore East 1970

Live at the Fillmore East, released in November 2006, features a March 1970 concert with Crazy Horse. The album was released on CD, LP and DVD with high definition 24/96 sound accompanied by still images from the concert.

Volume 02.5: Live at the Cellar Door

Live at the Cellar Door was recorded in Washington D.C. during six-show between November 30 and December 2, 1970. This was released on December 10, 2013.

Volume 03: Live at Massey Hall 1971

A solo acoustic performance from January 1971, Live at Massey Hall 1971, saw release in March 2007. The album was released on LP, CD and DVD Video with the DVD version including high definition sound accompanied by 8mm film footage. In his autobiography Young mentioned that the film footage is not from the same show as the audio.

Volume 04

Catalogue number possibly reserved for Tuscaloosa, a live show from the 1973 tour with The Stray Gators, during which Time Fades Away was recorded. The album is in post-production and due to be released in 2019.^[13]

Volume 05: Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live 1973

Tonight's the Night Live was released on April 24, 2018 with a Record Store Day vinyl release on April 21. The album is culled from a set of shows played during the opening of the Roxy Theatre from September 20–22, 1973. The shows featured Young backed by the Santa Monica Flyers and songs from the recently recorded Tonight's The Night.

Volume 06

Catalogue number possibly reserved for Odeon-Budokan, an unreleased live album featuring recordings from the 1975 shows at Budokan Hall, Tokyo and Hammersmith Odeon, London with Crazy Horse. According to Young the album is complete and ready to be released, but was delayed in favour of Tuscaloosa.^[13]

Volume 07: Songs for Judy

Songs for Judy was released digitally and on CD on November 30, 2018, and as a double LP on December 14, 2018. Compiled by Joel Bernstein and Cameron Crowe from solo acoustic performances on the 1976 North American tour, it previously circulated among fans as a bootleg titled The Bernstein Tapes.

Volume 08

Catalogue number possibly reserved for Boarding House, an album compiled from the recordings made during Young's 5-day residency at The Boarding House, San Francisco in May 1978; some of these recordings appeared on side A of Rust Never Sleeps. The album is listed on the timeline on the Archives website, although its status is currently unknown.

Volume 09: A Treasure

Volume 10

Volume 11: Bluenote Café

Bluenote Café, released November 13, 2015, documents the 1987/88 tour with the Bluenotes behind the 1988 album This Note's for You.

Volume 12: Dreamin' Man Live '92

Volume 12 in the Performance Series, Dreamin' Man Live '92, was released on December 8, 2009 and features all ten songs from the album Harvest Moon performed live in 1992.

Official Release Series

Although the Archives label is predominantly used for previously unreleased material, the name is also being attached to remastered editions of existing albums. Such releases are labeled Neil Young Archives Official Release Series. Since the introduction of PonoMusic, the following albums have been re-released as part of the Official Release Series:

Official Release Series 01:

• Neil Young

Official Release Series 02:

• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Official Release Series 03:

• After the Gold Rush

Official Release Series 04:

• Harvest

Official Release Series 05:

• Time Fades Away

Official Release Series 06:

• On the Beach

Official Release Series 07:

• Tonight's the Night

Official Release Series 08:

• Zuma

Official Release Series 08.5:

• Long May You Run

Official Release Series 09:

• American Stars 'n Bars

Official Release Series 10:

• Comes a Time

Official Release Series 11:

• Rust Never Sleeps

Official Release Series 12:

• Live Rust

Official Release Series 13:

• Hawks & Doves

Official Release Series 14:

• Re·ac·tor

Compact disc versions of the first four above albums were released on 14 July 2009. In addition, the albums were reissued as limited edition box sets on 24 November 2009, in both 180-gram vinyl and 24k gold CD versions. 140-gram vinyl editions of the individual albums were also issued on that date.^[15] On the 28th of November 2014, the series no. 05-08 were also reissued as limited edition vinyl box sets. When the PonoMusic Store went live in the end of 2014, another six albums were reissued as digital downloads, making a total of 14 albums available in 24 Bit & 192 kHz (including the 1973 album Time Fades Away, which hadn't been officially re-released since then).

Digital Masterpiece Series

In 2003, Neil Young released On The Beach, American Stars 'N Bars, Hawks & Doves, and Re·ac·tor on compact disc for the first time. These were reissued as HDCDs as part of the Neil Young Archives Digital Masterpiece Series. The CD versions were subsequently joined by DVD-Audio versions.

Special Release Series

Neil Young has also announced a part of the archives known as the Special Release Series. Toast, a previously unreleased album recorded in 2000 with Crazy Horse, was the first album to be announced as being part of the Special Release Series.^[16] Though announced in 2008, Toast remains unreleased as of October 2018. It was then announced that the second volume of Archives would include four SRS releases; the studio albums Homegrown, Chrome Dreams and Oceanside/Countryside, and the unreleased live album Odeon-Budokan. ^[17] However, these are also all unreleased as of October 2018.

Volume 05: Hitchhiker

Hitchhiker, an entirely solo album intended for release in the late 1970s but rejected by Reprise at the time recorded on August 11, 1976, at Indigo Ranch Recording Studio in Malibu, California, and released on September 8, 2017, ended up becoming the first officially released album as part of this series.

Volume 10: Original Soundtrack from "Paradox" movie

This album was released on March 23, 2018.

Notes

External links

• Official Neil Young site
• Official Neil Young Archives site

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