New Releases for the Week of 12/2/08

We really only have one new release this week, which is the CD/DVD edition of the latest installment in the Neil Young Archives series, Sugar Mountain-Live at Canterbury House 1968.  It's an enjoyable, low-key solo set, mostly consisting of Buffalo Springfield songs (so you can hear Neil sing the ones Richie sang) and material from his first album (sounding a lot better stripped down here than on the LP, which was over-tinkered with in the studio). You might want to know, however, that the "DVD" is really just an audio DVD of the same recording that's on the CD, but with technically better sound quality. There is no video footage to accompany it, just a picture of Neil and some snow flakes. There is also a fancy five-minute commercial for the Archives box set that Reprise is now promising a 2009 release of. Okay, sure. And the box set will only cover 1963-1972, so we'll have to wait another 20 years for one that digs deeper into the Time Fades Away/Tonight's the Night/On the Beach trilogy and all the great live recordings from that era.

-adam