Following the recent post of Neil Young's possible rock album that could have been released between his Bluenotes phase and his return to form on 'Freedom', Mike S wondered if there could have been another record released around the same time, as Young was playing a lot of songs on the Bluenotes tour of 1987/1988 which he never recorded in the studio. One of these was the track 'Sixty To Zero', which did eventually appear on 'Freedom' in a rewritten form as 'Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero Part 1)', but even though that is a lengthy track, earlier versions of the song, when it was still called 'Sixty To Zero', were even longer, going on as long as 11 verses and 20 minutes. Young would play both acoustic and electric versions of the song in concert, though the final released version was heavily acoustic, and so the centrepiece of any album from 1988 would have to be a seventeen-minute, electric version of 'Sixty To Zero'. Also played on that tour were more of his old Squires tracks, including 'Ain't It The Truth', and 'High Heels', which I had to leave off 'Welcome To The Big Room' purely for reasons of space, as well as a call-back to his old Buffalo Springfield days with a rendition of 'On The Way Home'. 'Don't Take Your Love Away From Me' is a superb blues track, of the sort that Young doesn't do nearly enough of, and so in answer to Mike's question, yes there is enough good quality material for a follow-up to 'Welcome To The Big Room'. Here, therefore, is 'Ain't It The Truth', another "studio" rock album from 1988 in an alternate universe.
Track listing
01 High Heels
02 Fool For Your Love
03 Don't Take Your Love Away From Me
04 Sixty To Zero
05 On The Way Home
06 Ain't It The Truth
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