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Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Rust Never Sleeps
Reprise
2295-2
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1. MY MY, HEY HEY (OUT OF THE BLUE) 3:45
Words and Music by Neil Young and Jeff Blackburn

2. THRASHER 5:38
Words and Music by Neil Young

3. RIDE MY LLAMA  2:29
Words and Music by Neil Young

4. POCAHONTAS 3:22
Words and Music by Neil Young

5. SAIL AWAY 3:46
Words and Music by Neil Young

6. POWDERFINGER 5:30
Words and Music by Neil Young

7. WELFARE MOTHERS 3:48
Words and Music by Neil Young

8. SEDAN DELIVERY 4:40
Words and Music by Neil Young

9. HEY HEY, MY MY (INTO THE BLACK) 5:18
Words and Music by Neil Young
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Produced by Neil Young, David Briggs and Tim Mulligan

Cuts 1 through 5:
All Performances by Neil Young, Nicolette Larson, Joe Osborne, Carl Himmel

Cuts 6 through 9:
All Performances by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

All songs: Words and music by Neil Young
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Neil Young's fourteenth career album and one of the most incendiary statements on artistic integrity ever set to music, Rust Never Sleeps is among the legendary singer/songwriter's most incisive, uncompromising and intriguing performances. Recorded live with the audience track subsequently removed, Rust Never Sleeps contains both an acoustic solo set by Young and a blistering electric workout with his longtime backing band, Crazy Horse.

Neil Young's impact on modern music was first felt in the mid-'60s when the Canadian born singer and guitarist joined Buffalo Springfield and contributed several classic originals to the band's repertoire, including "Mr. Soul," "Broken Arrow" and "I Am A Child." He released his self-titled solo debut in 1969 and subsequently formed Crazy Horse, with whom he recorded the towering Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. After a brief stint as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on the 1970 LP Deja Vu, Young returned to his solo career with spectacular results. After The Gold Rush (1970) and Harvest (1971) earned him an international following and his first No.1 single, "Heart Of Gold" (from Harvest).

What followed was a string of landmark albums. Journey Through The Past (1972) served as the soundtrack to a Young-conceived film while Time Fades Away (1973) is a raw and urgent live album spotlighting a new backing band, The Stray Gators. On The Beach (1974) was followed by the aching Tonight's The Night (1975), cut two years earlier and detailing Young's emotional upheaval following the drug death of Crazy Horse's Danny Whitten. The hard-rocking Zuma (1975) featured a new Crazy Horse line-up with drummer Ralph Molina, bassist Billy Talbot and guitarist Frank Sampedro. Long May You Run (1976) teamed Young with former Buffalo Springfield partner Steve Stills, while American Stars 'n' Bars highlighted performances by Linda Ronstadt and Nicolette Larson. Decade (1977) is a carefully culled compilation while Comes A Time (1978) harkens back to Young's folk roots.

In the fall of 1978 Young launched the "Rust Never Sleeps" concert tour, spotlighting both old and new, acoustic and electric music, and all performed amid oversize microphone and amp props. The following summer he released Rust Never Sleeps, a loose-knit concept album built around Young's conviction that an artist's reach must always exceed his grasp; that the alternative to creative growth was stagnation and irrelevancy. The LP featured acoustic and electric versions of a tune alternately called "My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)" and "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)," dedicated to the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten. Other standouts include "Sedan Delivery" and "Powderfinger," both of which Young had once offered to Lynyrd Skynyrd, as well as "Sail Away," with backing vocals by Nicolette Larson. Rust Never Sleeps also reunites Crazy Horse and Young on record for the first time since 1975's Zuma.
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