Neil Young - Dume (1976)

 

Side A:
1. Pocahontas
2. Powderfinger
3. Hawaii
4. Ride My Llama

Side B:
5. Born to Run
6. Sedan Delivery
7. Like a Hurricane

Neil Young recorded the Hitchhiker album in a single night, August 11, 1976, singing and accompanying himself with only his guitar and harmonica. Neil intended to release the album shortly after it was recorded, but executives at Reprise felt that it "wasn't a real record, but a collection of demos", with the musician saying that he "was advised to record the songs with a band". Some of the songs never got a band version recorded of them, but some of the others were actually recorded as band versions during the sessions of his previous album Zuma. The Archives Volume II CD Dume shows that Neil had enough outtakes from the album to make a second one, so why he didn't just release that is beyond me. He didn't release an album this year, instead releasing an album with Stephen Stills as The Stills-Young Band, which I previously talked about in my post about the Human Highway album.