
One song, " Bad Fog of Loneliness", makes its first appearance with this release. These include songs that Young recorded with the bands Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, or had released on one of his three solo albums to date.įive additional songs performed would appear one year later on the landmark album Harvest (though there are noticeable differences in the lyrics to "A Man Needs a Maid").

Of the eighteen songs Young performed during his second set that night, only eight had already appeared on record. Though the set of songs featured that night was similar to other concerts during the tour, the bulk of the songs played would have been unfamiliar to the audience. The CD release is paired with a DVD featuring footage from a performance at the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.

It spent 11 weeks on the latter chart, and in 2009 was named by Fretbase as the second-best album featuring a singer-songwriter on acoustic guitar of all time. It debuted at #9 on the Irish Charts, #30 on the UK albums chart, and #6 on the Billboard 200 on 31 March 2007, with 57,000 copies sold. The album reached #1 in Canada with 11,000 units sold in its first week. It is the second release in Young's Archives Performance Series. Released in 2007, the album features a solo acoustic performance by Young at Massey Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 19 January 1971 during his Journey Through the Past Solo Tour. Live at Massey Hall 1971 is a live album by Canadian musician Neil Young.
