A LETTER FROM HOME

2014 album from the legendary singer/songwriter. Neil Young recorded a collection of covers with Jack White on a refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth at Third Man s Nashville headquarters. Imagine a very simple recording studio not much larger than a phone booth and you ll get the idea. He describes the album as an unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro-mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever. Recorded live to track to one-track mono the album has an inherent warm primitive feel of a vintage Folkways recording. As for the track-listing Young chose songs that have personal meaning for him such as British folk artist Bert Jansch s Needle of Death (which inspired Young to write 1972 s Needle and the Damage Done ) Bob Dylan s Girl from the North Country Willie Nelson s Crazy Don Everly s I Wonder If I Care as Much Bruce Springsteen s My Home Town and many others.