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Young collects results of 1976 session in Malibu, including two previously unreleased songs, on new album On August 11th, 1976, Neil Young walked into Indigo Studios in Malibu and recorded
10 songs with his acoustic guitar. The results of that session are collected on _Hitchhiker_, a new Young LP due out on September 8th. Many of the songs have surfaced on previous Young
albums, albeit in different forms: “Human Highway” appeared two years later on 1978’s _Comes a Time_, while “Powderfinger,” “Ride My Llama” and “Pocahontas” showed up on _Rust Never Sleeps_
(1979), and “Captain Kennedy” came out on 1980’s _Hawks & Doves_. _Hitchhiker_ will also contain a pair of never-before-released songs – “Hawaii,” “a soaring ballad,” and “Give Me
Strength,” which Young has occasionally performed live. Young recorded _Hitchhiker_ with David Briggs, who helped produce many of Young’s most famous albums, including _Everybody Knows This
Is Nowhere_, _After the Gold Rush_ and _On the Beach_. John Hanlon, another long-time collaborator, contributed some post-production to the original Malibu recordings. Even as Young
unearths old material from 1976, he’s been busily creating new music as well. In 2016, he released a live LP (_Earth_) and a studio album (_Peace Trail_). “I’ve got a lot to do without
touring,” he told _Rolling Stone_ last year. “I’m actually just focusing now on recordings for awhile.” One of his in-progress projects is the first record with his backing band Promise of
the Real. TRENDING STORIES “Where I live now, I have a studio nearby; I can just go down there and work in it when I feel like it,” Young added. “I feel free to do whatever I want to do.”
_HITCHHIKER_ TRACK LIST 1. “Pocahontas” 2. “Powderfinger” 3. “Captain Kennedy” 4. “Hawaii” 5. “Give Me Strength” 6. “Ride My Llama” 7. “Hitchhiker” 8. “Campaigner” 9. “Human Highway” 10.
“The Old Country Waltz”