Written by: Neil Young
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Here's a new song for all the soldiers coming home from war. Neil Young Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, California, USA March 11, 1973
Written about a GI returning to the states from the Vietnam war. Neil Young NYA Times-Contrarian Roadstories January 24, 2018
Then Elliot put it in a different sequence, because he was doing this Tonight’s the Night Broadway show…there was a script written and everything. We’d listen to the record of these songs, and that’s how we got it finished. He picked out the other songs – ‘Lookout Joe’, ‘Come on Baby, Let’s Go Downtown’, and ‘Borrowed Tune’, – and we put them in with the original nine Tonight’s the Night songs. Neil Young Creem/Bud Scoppa November 1975
‘Lookout Joe’ and ‘Borrowed Tune’ were written during my Time Fades Away tour. I never hit ‘Lookout Joe’ the way I wanted to. It was recorded at my ranch during the rehearsals for the Time Fades Away tour just after Danny Whitten O.D.’d. He’d been working on the song with us and after he died we stopped for awhile. When we started playing again, that was the first thing we cut and I wrote ‘Don’t Be Denied’ that day. So ‘Lookout Joe’ one of the oldest songs on the album. Neil Young Creem/Bud Scoppa November 1975
Lookout Joe (version 1 of 2)
Session Date:December 15, 1972
Studio:Studio, Broken Arrow Ranch, CA
Produced by:Elliot Mazer
Recording type:Studio
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:53
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, guitar Ben Keith: slide guitar, vocals Jack Nitzsche: piano Tim Drummond: bass Kenny Buttrey: drums
Available on:
Tonight's The Night Neil Young Released: 1975-06-20

Side 2 Track 4

Lookout Joe (version 2 of 2)
Session Date:February 5, 1973
Studio:Memorial Coliseum - University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Produced by:Neil Young & Elliot Mazer
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:4:59
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, electric guitar Ben Keith: slide guitar, vocals Jack Nitzsche: piano Tim Drummond: bass Kenny Buttrey: drums
Available on:
Tuscaloosa Neil Young Released: 2019-06-07

Track 8

Neil Young Archives Vol. II 1972-1976 Neil Young Released: 2020-11-20

Disc 2 - Tuscaloosa (1973) Track 21

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