{"id":2097956,"date":"2025-10-17T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2097956"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:57:15","slug":"neil-young-digs-up-unreleased-tonights-the-night-tracks-for-50th-anniversary-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/neil-young-digs-up-unreleased-tonights-the-night-tracks-for-50th-anniversary-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Digs Up Unreleased \u2018Tonight\u2019s the Night\u2019 Tracks for 50th Anniversary Reissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Neil Young will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-1975-1235311960\/neil-young-tonights-the-night-3-1235312001\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:classic 1975 album;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">classic 1975 album<\/a> <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063\/abba-the-definitive-collection-2-1062930\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tonight\u2019s the Night;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tonight\u2019s the Night<\/a> <\/em>with a reissue package featuring several previously unreleased recordings from the original album sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Young and his backing band \u2014 which included, at the time, guitarist Nils Lofgren, pedal steel player Ben Keith, bassist Billy Talbot, drummer Ralph Molina, and others \u2014 recorded most of\u00a0<em>Tonight\u2019s the Night\u00a0<\/em>at S.I.R. Studios in Los Angeles in 1973. A couple of songs, though, were cut at Young\u2019s own Broken Arrow Ranch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bonus tracks all come from those S.I.R. sessions, including a previously unreleased version of \u201cLookout Joe\u201d that\u2019ll be slotted into the album track list on the reissue in place of the Broken Arrow version from the original album. One of the other unreleased bonus tracks from the S.I.R. sessions is a rendition of \u201cWalk On,\u201d which was cut again at Broken Arrow for Young\u2019s 1974 album, <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/neil-young-beach-50-bummed-172326419.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:On the Beach;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">On the Beach<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The last unreleased track is an alternate take of \u201cTonight\u2019s the Night.\u201d Among the other rarities are versions of \u201cEverybody\u2019s Alone,\u201d \u201cRaised on Robbery\u201d with Joni Mitchell, and \u201cSpeakin\u2019 Out Jam,\u201d all of which were previously included on <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/neil-young-archives-volume-two-review-1088726\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Neil Young Archives Vol. II;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Neil Young Archives Vol. II<\/a><\/em>. The reissue will <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/neil-young-crazy-horse-unearthing-152817872.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:also boast \u201cWonderin\u2019,\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">also boast \u201cWonderin\u2019,\u201d<\/a> which has only been available to stream on Young\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Tonight\u2019s the Night <\/em>was the last album in Young\u2019s so-called \u201cditch trilogy\u201d \u2014 along with <em>On the Beach <\/em>and 1973\u2019s <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/time-fades-away-248206\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Time Fades Away;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Time Fades Away<\/a> \u2014 <\/em>which followed the massive success of 1972\u2019s <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063\/neil-young-harvest-2-1063161\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Harvest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Harvest<\/a><\/em>. While those three albums failed to garner the same critical or commercial success as <em>Harvest<\/em>, they\u2019ve since become revered efforts in Young\u2019s discography. <em>Tonight\u2019s the Night <\/em>is often heralded as one of Young\u2019s best as it found him grappling with the overdose deaths of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and longtime roadie Bruce Berry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 50th anniversary edition of the album will be released on Nov. 28 on vinyl, CD, and digitally. It\u2019s available to pre-order now, with a clear vinyl edition available at Young\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/neilyoung.warnerrecords.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOorWjjCxBRWy_6pyZJXfp-QJ1y7tPRGUPVHA-AAWzKNW3ejXFhkh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Greedy Hand Store;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Greedy Hand Store<\/a> and via other independent retailers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.rollingstone.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RollingStone's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RollingStone&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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Young and his backing band \u2014 which included, at the time, guitarist Nils Lofgren, pedal steel player Ben Keith, bassist Billy Talbot, drummer Ralph Molina, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2097957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[313575,32187,359473,366314,396360],"class_list":["post-2097956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-50th-anniversary","tag-neil-young","tag-neil-young-archives","tag-night","tag-nils-lofgren"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Neil-Young-Digs-Up-Unreleased-\u2018Tonights-the-Night-Tracks-for.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097958,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097956\/revisions\/2097958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}