Time Fades Away Tour

The album, Time Fades Away, was released in October 1973, and has often been described by Young as “my least favourite record"; it was not officially released on CD until 2017. Nevertheless, Young and his band tried several new musical approaches in this period. Time Fades Away, for instance, was recorded live, although it was an album of new material, an approach Young would repeat with more success later on. Time… was the first of three consecutive commercial failures which would later become known collectively to fans as the ‘Ditch Trilogy’. But, despite Young’s disappointment with the new release, the album did contain a number of truly great songs, and this CD, recorded for FM radio broadcast on the tour from which the album was compiled, on 28th January ’73, features three of the record’s very finest cuts, including the title track plus ‘Don’t Be Denied’ and ‘Last Dance’. The rest of the show features Young classics from previous albums, his unreleased tribute to Joni Mitchell, ‘Sweet Joni’, and two numbers that would be included on his next album, 1975’s Tonight’s The Night’, written largely for Danny Whitten.