THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Oceanside Countryside is the latest of Neil Young’s great “lost” albums to be released as part of his Analog Original Series. The album was recorded from May to December 1977, preceding the release of Comes A Time in 1978. The two albums share the same country-folk sound, and three songs (Goin’ Back, Human Highway and Field of Opportunity) appear on both albums.
The vinyl release of Oceanside Countryside includes some tracks that are on the CD of the same name in Young’s Archives Vol. III. However, this track list is how Oceanside Countryside was originally planned to be released. It will finally will be made available in analog on vinyl for the first time. Recorded on tape, these are the original mixes done at the time of recording.
As Young states: “This analog original album was recorded in 1977 and unreleased. These songs are the original mixes done at the time of the recordings in the order I planned for the album. I sang the vocals and played the instruments on Oceanside in Florida at Triad Studios and Malibu at Indigo Studio. I sang the vocals and recorded with my great band of friends, Ben Keith, Joe Osborn, Karl T. Himmel and Rufus Thibodeaux at Crazy Mama’s in Nashville on Countryside. I hope you enjoy this treasure of an analog original recording, recorded by Tim Mulligan, as much as I do. Listening to it now, I think I should have put it out back then.”
