Roxy - Tonight's The Night Live [SHM-CD]

Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live immortalizes Neil Young shortly after the recording of the legendary album Tonight’s the Night. It is almost identical to the original version, which contained only nine tracks. Notably, the missing songs—Lookout Joe and Borrowed Tune—are absent here as well, just as on the original release, which is precisely what makes this live recording so precious and essential. It mirrors the original album almost perfectly—raw, mournful, and at times even more electrifying. It remains astonishing that Neil Young’s 1970s catalog—from "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" through "Time Fades Away", "On the Beach", "Tonight’s the Night", and "American Stars ’n Bars"—has never been reissued as mini-LP replicas, unlike the catalogs of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and so many others. It feels deeply unfair. Perhaps one day—but for now, the Japanese reissues we enjoyed a few years ago seem to belong to the past.