Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

We thought we'd dive back into the world of Classic Rock for just a minute and talk about a really extraordinary archival release.

It's Neil Young's Archives Volume 2, 1972 to 1976. we have with us Angie Martosio

Andy Green

Rob Sheffield and David Brown to talk about this box set and he maybe set us up with both the significance of

Neil Young's archives as a thing judging by this rate I guess he has about 10 more archives at least to go and then also just this incredible period I think this is one of my

Personally one of my favorite periods by any artist ever so to have a box set focusing on it is pretty dream like but

Andy go it's a really amazing thing because back in the 80s he started talking

about archives box sets and it was every interview he gave for years

but he didn't put it out until 2007 and that was the start of his career through Harvest

which is great stuff, but my favorite

period is the mid-70s, and this is the period when he wrote songs at a psychotic rate.

He wrote songs so fast that there are many albums that he just shelved completely and he finally did this is 72 through 76.

It's 10 CDs. There's 63 songs that have never been heard before

which is astounding because he'd an album or two per year back then and he's

released the time since then.

So this is the mother load of sort of the four best years

maybe of his career as a songwriter.

And when you think of it being the best four years

of one of the best songwriters of all time, you start to grasp the

significance of this project. Rob, maybe you can explain, I presume you agree that this was

certainly a peak period, you don't have to agree that it's the peak period for Neil, but what's great about this period for you of New Young?

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