Way Down in the Rust Bucket


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

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. Guitarist Poncho Sampedro remembers the show fondly in a March 2021 interview for Rolling Stone:
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. "Cowgirl in the Sand" appears only on the DVD version, with dropout sections augmented by lower-fidelity FOH mix.
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. This album was initially scheduled to come out on October 16, 2020 before being postponed to January 15, 2021 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

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.

Track listing

All songs written by Neil Young except as noted.

DVD

  • "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 "
  • "Fuckin' Up"
  • "T-Bone"
  • "Homegrown"
  • "Mansion on the Hill"
  • "Like a Hurricane"
  • "Love and Only Love"
  • "Cortez the Killer"

    Personnel

;Neil Young and Crazy Horse
  • Neil Young– vocals, guitar
  • Ralph Molina– drums, vocals
  • Frank Sampedro– guitar, Stringman, vocals
  • Billy Talbot– bass guitar, vocals
Engineering and production
  • Neil Young, David Briggs– production
  • John Hanlon– recording, mixing
  • Jenice Heo– art direction & design
  • Frank Gironda– direction

    Charts