Hitchhiker

This harrowing autobiographical track is a previously unreleased cut dating from the mid 1970s. The newly updated lyrics tell Young's entire life story including all the drugs he's ingested.

Young told Billboard magazine that after a few acoustic tracks were initially recorded for Le Noise, he pulled out this song and began working it up. "The song evolved from being solo acoustic into being solo electric," he said "Then I thought to myself, 'This is definitely going to be better electric than acoustic. So we tried it and it sounded really interesting and really good and strong... So I went home and got my white [Gretsch] Falcon out... and I wrote a sound or two like that and then brought them in and that kind of opened the door for us."

Young plugs in his famed old black Les Paul for this track. Producer Daniel Lanois told MusicRadar: "That's some guitar. Neil starts playing that and you go, 'Oh yeah, that's him!' It's got a meaty, grungy, gnarly presence, whereas the Gretsch has more midrange and clarity to it. Both guitars sound great through those Tweeds."