A Treasure is a live album by Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

, released on June 14, 2011. It features performances from his 1984-1985 U.S. tour with the International Harvesters. It contains six previously unreleased songs. The album is volume nine in Young's Archives Performance Series

Neil Young Archives

The Neil Young Archives is a series of archival releases by singer-songwriter Neil Young which feature previously released as well as unreleased studio and live recordings. The project has been long in the making – work began in the late 1980s...

 and the sixth to be released.

According to Neil, the album's name comes from Ben Keith

Ben Keith

Bennett Keith Schaeufele , better known by his stage name Ben Keith, was an American musician and record producer...

. "I hadn't heard these takes in 25 years, but when we unearthed them co-producer Ben Keith said, 'This is a treasure.'"

Track listing

All songs written by Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

 except where indicated.

1. "Amber Jean" – 3:17
2. "Are You Ready for the Country" – 3:39
3. "It Might Have Been" (Ronnie Green & Harriet Kane) – 2:43
4. "Bound for Glory" – 5:59
5. "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking" – 3:03
6. "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong" – 4:48
7. "Motor City" – 3:22
8. "Soul of a Woman" – 4:28
9. "Get Back to the Country" – 2:31
10. "Southern Pacific" – 7:53
11. "Nothing Is Perfect" – 5:02
12. "Grey Riders" – 5:58

Personnel

• Neil Young – guitar, vocals
• Ben "Long Grain" Keith
  Ben Keith
  Bennett Keith Schaeufele , better known by his stage name Ben Keith, was an American musician and record producer...
  
   – pedal steel guitar, lap slide guitar, stringman, vocals
• Anthony Crawford – guitar, banjo, vocals
• Rufus Thibodeaux
  Rufus Thibodeaux
  Rufus Thibodeaux was an American Cajun music fiddler.Thibodeaux played guitar from age six and fiddle from age twelve. He played in local dance halls at 13, and joined Julius Lamperez's Cajun band in 1949. He worked extensively as a studio musician for J. D...
  
   – fiddle
• Spooner Oldham
  Spooner Oldham
  Dewey Lindon "Spooner" Oldham is an American songwriter and session musician. An organist, he recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and at FAME Studios on such hit R&B songs as "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge, "Mustang Sally" by Wilson Pickett and "I Never Loved a Man" by Aretha...
  
   – piano
• Tim Drummond
  Tim Drummond
  Tim Drummond is an American bass guitarist who has toured and recorded with many notable artists including Conway Twitty, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Ry Cooder, J. J. Cale, Lonnie Mack, Miles Davis, B.B...
  
   – bass
• Karl T. Himmel – drums
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano (on tracks 10, 11, 12)
• Joe Allen – bass (on tracks 10, 11, 12)
• Matraca Berg
  Matraca Berg
  Matraca Maria Berg is an American country music singer and songwriter. She has released five albums: three for RCA Records, one for Rising Tide Records and one for Dualtone Records, and has charted in the top 40 of the U.S. Billboard country charts with "Baby, Walk On" and "The Things You Left...
  
   & Tracy Nelson
  Tracy Nelson (singer)
  -Youth in Wisconsin:Nelson was born and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. There she first learned about R&B music from WLAC radio in Nashville. In her teens, Nelson sang folk music in coffeehouses and with a group called The Fuller's Wood Singers and was lead singer in a band called The Fabulous...
  
   – background vocals (on track 11)

Chart performance

Chart (2011)	Peak position
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	18
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	29
U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Rock Albums	7

External links

• Neil Young official site A Treasure page featuring a video of tech notes on the album