Live at the Cellar Door

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Live at the Cellar Door
Neil Young Live at the Cellar Door.jpg
Live album by
ReleasedDecember 10, 2013
RecordedNovember 30 – December 2, 1970
Venue The Cellar Door, Washington, D.C.
Genre
Length45:06
Label Reprise
Producer
Neil Young chronology
Psychedelic Pill
(2012)
Live at the Cellar Door
(2013)
A Letter Home
(2014)
Archives Performance Series chronology
PS02:
Live at the Fillmore East

(2006)
PS02.5:
Live at the Cellar Door

(2013)
PS03:
Live at Massey Hall 1971

(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 84/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Consequence of Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [4]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 7.7/10 [6]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Tom Hull B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [8]

Live at the Cellar Door is a live album by Neil Young, featuring performances from his six 1970 concerts in Washington D.C. [9] It was released on December 10, 2013. The album is volume 02.5 in Young's Archives Performance Series. [10] The album features songs from both Young's early albums and Buffalo Springfield albums, including After the Gold Rush , Harvest , Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere , On the Beach , Buffalo Springfield and Buffalo Springfield Again .

Contents

Additionally, the album features the only known recording of Young performing his song "Cinnamon Girl" on piano. As stated by his comment on the disc "That's the first time I've ever performed that song on piano!"

The album closes with "Flying on the Ground is Wrong" in which Young quips: "I had it put in my contracts that I would only play on a nine-foot Steinway grand piano, just for a little eccentricity." [11]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Tell Me Why"2:52
2."Only Love Can Break Your Heart"3:13
3."After the Gold Rush"3:48
4."Expecting to Fly"3:21
5."Bad Fog of Loneliness"2:00
6."Old Man"3:41
7."Birds"2:19
8."Don't Let It Bring You Down"2:38
9."See the Sky About to Rain"3:21
10."Cinnamon Girl"3:29
11."I Am a Child"2:43
12."Down by the River"4:24
13."Flying on the Ground Is Wrong"7:11

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
Position
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [12] 23
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [13] 3
US Billboard 200 [14] 28
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [15] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2014)Position
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [16] 14
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [17] 75

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