Neil Young’s Oceanside Countryside to be released on CD

Neil Young’s ‘lost’ album Oceanside Countryside was announced on vinyl at the beginning of the year and is released in early March. There was an assumption that this wouldn’t surface on CD since it’s similar – although not the same – to CD 4 in last year’s Archives Vol III, but Reprise have just announced a CD edition, due in April.

As a reminder, the album was recorded in 1977 and features songs such as ‘Lost in Space’, ‘Captain Kennedy’ and ‘The Old Homestead’ (that ended up on Hawks and Doves, in 1980) and ‘Sail Away’, ‘Goin’ Back’, ‘Human Highway’, ‘It Might Have Been’ and ‘Pocohontas’ which are the same as on Archives Vol III. Other tracks, such as ‘Field of Opportunity’ and ‘Dance Dance Dance’ are unique in that they are slightly different to the versions of Archives Vol III (on these versions Young is on backing vocals, rather than Nicolette Larson).

Young stresses that “These songs are the original mixes done at the time of the recordings”. The Oceanside element (side one) was recorded in Florida and Malibu with NY singing and playing (most of) the instruments. Countryside (side two) features songs recorded in Nashville with Ben Keith, Joe Osborn and a few others.

The CD edition features the same 10 tracks at the vinyl, so quite why the label split the announcements and release dates of both formats is unclear. Perhaps they had no plans for a CD version until Neil Young intervened?

Oceanside Countryside will be issued on CD on 25 April 2025 via Reprise Records. The vinyl is out on 7 March.

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Tracklisting

Oceanside Countryside Neil Young /

• • 1. Sail Away
    2. Lost In Space*
    3. Captain Kennedy*
    4. Goin’ Back
    5. Human Highway
    6. Field Of Opportunity**
    7. Dance Dance Dance**
    8. The Old Homestead*
    9. It Might Have Been**
    10. Pocahontas***

    Produced by Neil Young

    *Produced by David Briggs, Tim Mulligan & Neil Young

    **Produced by Neil Young & Ben Keith

    ***Produced by David Briggs. Overdubs produced by Neil Young