Way Down in the Rust Bucket

Way Down in the Rust Bucket
Live album by
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
ReleasedFebruary 26, 2021 (2021-02-26)
RecordedNovember 13, 1990
VenueThe Catalyst, Santa Cruz, California, United States
GenreHard rock[1]
Length142:37
LabelReprise
Producer
Neil Young chronology
Neil Young Archives Volume II: 1972–1976
(2020) 		Way Down in the Rust Bucket
(2021) 		Young Shakespeare
(2021)
Crazy Horse chronology
Return to Greendale
(2020) 		Way Down in the Rust Bucket
(2021) 		Barn
(2021)
Archives Performance Series chronology
PS11:
Bluenote Café
(2015) 		PS11.5:
Way Down in the Rust Bucket
(2021) 		PS12:
Dreamin' Man Live '92
(2009)
CD cover
Singles from Way Down in the Rust Bucket
  1. "Country Home"
    Released: February 16, 2021
  2. "Don't Cry No Tears"
    Released: February 16, 2021
  3. "Homegrown"
    Released: February 19, 2021[2]

Way Down in the Rust Bucket is a live album and concert film from Canadian-American rock musician Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse, released on February 26, 2021. It is Volume 11.5 in the Performance Series of Neil Young Archives.

Recording and release

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The album was recorded on November 13, 1990 at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California, where the band was warming up for their upcoming Ragged Glory tour. The show consisted of three sets and an encore, featuring most of the recently released Ragged Glory as well as older fan favorites and deeper cuts.[3] Guitarist Poncho Sampedro remembers the show fondly in a March 2021 interview for Rolling Stone:

"Let me go on record as saying that I think this Way Down in the Rust Bucket is the best Crazy Horse record we ever recorded. I love it! I love this record. Neil plays great, unbelievably great. He's just electrified. "Country Home" sounds like a country tune I never heard in my life. He just takes it to all kinds of different levels. He nails "Cortez." He nails "Danger Bird" and "Over and Over." He's just playing so good and the band played really good. We'd go onstage and we played "T-Bone". We'd played that song at a birthday party for one of Pegi's friends and then we played it there. We never played it too many other places. It was just fun. We played "Homegrown," and at the end, people were throwing weed on the stage since it's a big weed-growing community. We were having fun. It was all about the beginning of a new era. We were becoming alive. I just don't see it as a warm-up. It doesn't hit me like that. We played "Cortez" and it sounds so beautiful. When I hear Neil play it with other people, it just doesn't sound the same to me, ever."[4]

Due to a temporary power loss, the multitrack recording of "Cowgirl in the Sand" was damaged; it was decided to remove the song from the CD and LP running order (which also allowed the release format to be limited to two CDs/four LPs). "Cowgirl in the Sand" appears only on the DVD version, with dropout sections augmented by lower-fidelity FOH mix. [5]

Young announced the release on his site on January 1, 2020 with the intention to release it that year along with Greendale Live, which was later retitled Return to Greendale, a 2003 rock opera that also features Crazy Horse.[6] This album was initially scheduled to come out on October 16, 2020 before being postponed to January 15, 2021[7] and later February 26. Young has previously shown all the concert video footage of this show as part of the Movietone section of his Archives website.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic85/100[8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
And It Don't StopA−[9]
Clash9/10[10]
Rolling Stone[11]
Tom Hull – on the WebB+ ((2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention))[12]

Way Down in the Rust Bucket was met with acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 85 based on 7 reviews.[8]

Track listing

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All songs written by Neil Young except as noted.

Disc one

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Country Home" 9:13
2."Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze"Neil Young, Frank "Poncho" Sampedro5:40
3."Love to Burn" 13:54
4."Days That Used to Be" 4:56
5."Bite the Bullet" 3:58
6."Cinnamon Girl" 4:04
7."Farmer John"Don Harris, Dewey Terry6:01
8."Over and Over" 10:20
9."Danger Bird" 10:26
10."Don’t Cry No Tears" 4:22
11."Sedan Delivery" 5:44

Disc two

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Roll Another Number (For the Road)" 4:45
2."Fuckin’ Up"Neil Young, Frank "Poncho" Sampedro5:12
3."T-Bone" 6:44
4."Homegrown" 4:46
5."Mansion on the Hill" 5:58
6."Like a Hurricane" 12:56
7."Love and Only Love" 13:16
8."Cortez the Killer" 11:24

DVD

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  • "Country Home"
  • "Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze"
  • "Love to Burn"
  • "Days That Used to Be"
  • "Bite the Bullet"
  • "Cinnamon Girl"
  • "Farmer John"
  • "Cowgirl in the Sand"
  • "Over and Over"
  • "Danger Bird"
  • "Don't Cry No Tears"
  • "Sedan Delivery"
  • "Roll Another Number (For the Road)"
  • "Fuckin' Up"
  • "T-Bone"
  • "Homegrown"
  • "Mansion on the Hill"
  • "Like a Hurricane"
  • "Love and Only Love"
  • "Cortez the Killer"

Personnel

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Engineering and production

Charts

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Chart performance for Way Down in the Rust Bucket
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[13] 9
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[14] 19
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[15] 12
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[16] 35
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[17] 45
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[18] 32
French Albums (SNEP)[19] 99
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[20] 7
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[21] 5
Irish Albums (OCC)[22] 27
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[23] 24
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[24] 17
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[25] 34
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[26] 18
UK Albums (OCC)[27] 18
US Billboard 200[28] 109
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[29] 15
US Folk Albums (Billboard)[30] 5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[31] 4

References

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  1. ^ a b Deming, Mark. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  2. ^ "Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Homegrown (Live) - Way Down in the Rust Bucket (Official Music Video)". February 18, 2021 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Helman, Peter (August 13, 2020). "Neil Young Announces Three Archival Releases". Stereogum. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  4. ^ Greene, Andy. 2021. "Neil Young and Crazy Horse's Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro on New Live LP, Why He Left the Band". Rolling Stone. March 2, 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/frank-poncho-sampedro-interview-neil-young-crazy-horse-1134522/.
  5. ^ "Way Down In The Rust Bucket". Neil Young Archives. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
  6. ^ Blisten, Jon (January 2, 2020). "Neil Young Details 2020 Archival Releases". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  7. ^ "Neil Young Shares Release Dates for Five Archival Projects". Consequence of Sound. March 10, 2020. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  9. ^ Christgau, Robert (April 7, 2021). "Consumer Guide: April, 2021". And It Don't Stop. Substack. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
  10. ^ Roseblade, Nick (February 25, 2021). "Clash Magazine Review". Clash. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  11. ^ Browne, David (February 25, 2021). "'Way Down in the Rust Bucket' Is the Sound of Neil Young and Crazy Horse Getting Reinvigorated for the Nineties". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  12. ^ Hull, Tom (March 29, 2021). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
  13. ^ "Austriancharts.at – Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Way Down in the Rust Bucket" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
  14. ^ "Ultratop.be – Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Way Down in the Rust Bucket" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  15. ^ "Ultratop.be – Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Way Down in the Rust Bucket" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  16. ^ "Hitlisten.NU – Album Top-40 Uge 9, 2021". Hitlisten. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
  17. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Way Down in the Rust Bucket" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  18. ^ "Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Way Down in the Rust Bucket" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  19. ^ "Lescharts.com – Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Way Down in the Rust Bucket". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
  20. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Way Down in the Rust Bucket" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  21. ^ "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2021. 9. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  22. ^ "Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  23. ^ "VG-lista – Topp 40 Album uke 9, 2021". VG-lista. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  24. ^ "Spanishcharts.com – Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Way Down in the Rust Bucket". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
  25. ^ "Veckolista Album, vecka 9". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  26. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Way Down in the Rust Bucket". Hung Medien. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  27. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  28. ^ "Neil Young Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  29. ^ "Neil Young Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  30. ^ "Neil Young Chart History (Top Americana/Folk Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  31. ^ "Neil Young Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
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