Neil Young – Hitchhiker (E/E) – LP, US 2017

Hitchhiker is an LP by Neil Young from 2017 released on the Reprise Records label.

About this album

Hitchhiker is a striking acoustic Neil Young album, revealing one of rock’s great songwriters at his most direct and exposed. Recorded in August 1976 at Indigo Ranch in Malibu and later released in 2017, it presents solo performances of songs that span the breadth of his canon, including early versions of “Pocahontas”, “Powderfinger” and “Campaigner”. The album’s strength lies in its immediacy: voice, guitar and unvarnished lyricism carry the drama, giving familiar material a new sense of fragility and resolve. As a late-revealed snapshot of a vital creative period, it deepens the portrait of Young’s mid-1970s work.