Tuscaloosa (album)

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Tuscaloosa
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Live album by
Neil Young and the Stray Gators
ReleasedJune 7, 2019
RecordedFebruary 5, 1973
Venue Memorial Coliseum, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Genre
Length52:35
Label Reprise
Producer
Neil Young chronology
Songs for Judy
(2018)		Tuscaloosa
(2019)		 Colorado
(2019)
Archives Performance Series chronology
PS03.5:
Young Shakespeare
(2021)		PS04:
Tuscaloosa
(2019)		PS05:
Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live
(2018)

Tuscaloosa is a live album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released on June 7, 2019, on American record label Reprise Records. [1] It is Volume 04 in the Performance Series of Neil Young Archives.

Contents

The album features recordings from the February 5, 1973, concert in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which was part of Young's Time Fades Away tour with his backing band The Stray Gators. Unlike the album Time Fades Away, which was compiled from later tour dates, the lineup features drummer Kenny Buttrey (who was later replaced by Johnny Barbata). The album doesn't feature the whole concert, as not all the songs were captured to tape, [2] while "The Loner" and "On the Way Home" were not included for various reasons ("The Loner" eventually was made available for streaming for Archives subscribers in 2020). [3]

The album was also included in the Archives Volume II boxset released in 2020.

Tuscaloosa was originally released on Neil Young's website through a monthly subscription that included other benefits for fans, for Young was known to criticize streaming platforms as he claimed they provided low-resolution music streaming quality and unequal payment methods to artists for every stream. [4] [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Track listing

All songs written by Neil Young.

No.TitleLength
1."Here We Are in the Years"3:56
2."After the Gold Rush"4:42
3."Out on the Weekend"5:29
4."Harvest"4:14
5."Old Man"4:17
6."Heart of Gold"3:48
7."Time Fades Away"6:10
8."Lookout Joe"4:59
9."New Mama"3:01
10."Alabama"3:50
11."Don't Be Denied"8:09

Personnel

Source [7]

The Stray Gators

Engineering and production

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [8] 28
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 48
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 30
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [11] 57
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [12] 40
French Albums (SNEP) [13] 59
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [14] 20
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [15] 4
Irish Albums (IRMA) [16] 52
Italian Albums (FIMI) [17] 55
Scottish Albums (OCC) [18] 8
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [19] 23
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [20] 39
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [21] 36
UK Albums (OCC) [22] 30
US Billboard 200 [23] 108
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [24] 20
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [25] 3
US Vinyl Albums (Billboard) [26] 2
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [27] 1

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