Eldorado Fades Away

2 Neil Young rarities are reissued as standalone physical releases, with the elusive "Time Fades Away" live album from 1973 back on CD and 1989’s "Eldorado" EP available on vinyl and CD.

"Time Fades Away" was recorded on tour with the Stray Gators, following the success of the 1972 album "Harvest". It consists of what was unreleased material at the time and was issued on vinyl in October 1973. It more or less disappeared from Young’s catalogue for decades due to his general dissatisfaction with the rather erratic tour. Much bootlegged, but not officially reissued until the "Official Release Series, Discs 5-8" vinyl box set on Record Store Day 2014, it eventually took 43 years for it to come out on CD, when the same box set was issued as a 4 CD set back in 2017.

However, that CD box set is already out of print, meaning that once again "Time Fades Away" is a tricky album to pick up on CD. Undoubtedly, this will be the reason behind this standalone CD release, which uses the same mastering as the 2017 CD.

The 5 track "Eldorado" EP was originally only issued in Japan and Australia, and sees Neil Young backed by The Restless, which consisted of Chad Cromwell and Rick Rosas. It contains different mixes of 3 songs that subsequently appeared on Young’s 1989 album "Freedom", "Don’t Cry", "On Broadway" and "Eldorado", and 2 tracks not available on any other recording, "Cocaine Eyes" and "Heavy Love". The "Don’t Cry" track on Eldorado is longer than the later version published on "Freedom", for which some of the more free form guitar work was edited out, at the insistence of co-producers Niko Bolas and Frank Sampedro.

"Eldorado" was included in the "Official Release Series Vol 4" box set that was released in April this year, but you can now buy it on its own. "Eldorado" was released on August 19th, 2022, and "Time Fades Away" will be re-issued on September 23rd, 2022, both via Reprise Records.