Lucky Thirteen is a compilation album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released in 1993. It contains thirteen of Young's Geffen-era songs released between 1982 and 1988, including five tracks that were previously unreleased, and three that are slightly different edits to their original versions.
It was the first Neil Young album (solo or otherwise) not to be distributed by Warner Music Group. Two years after Young's departure from Geffen, the label, originally distributed by Warner Bros. Records, was sold to MCA Music Entertainment. Young's Geffen-era recordings, now owned by Universal Music Group, represent the only works in his catalog that are not owned by Warner Music Group, with which he has had a long-standing relationship, dating to when his first band Buffalo Springfield was signed to Atco Records (which was actually not a sister label to WBR at the time of the signing, only becoming so in 1967).
Track listing
Personnel
Neil Young – guitar, bass, synclavier, vocoder, electric piano, harmonica, vocals Ralph Molina – drums, vocals Frank Sampedro – guitar, keyboards Karl Himmel – drums Tim Drummond – bass Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, guitar, alto saxophone, vocals Rufus Thibodeaux – fiddle Spooner Oldham – organ Anthony Crawford – maracas, vocals Rick Palombi – tambourine, vocals Craig Hayes – baritone saxophone Waylon Jennings – guitar, vocals Gordon Terry – fiddle Joe Allen – bass Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano Ralph Mooney – pedal steel guitar David Kirby – guitar Danny Kortchmar – guitar, synthesizer, vocals Steve Jordan – drums, synthesizer, vocals Billy Talbot – bass Chad Cromwell – drums Rick "The Bass Player" Rosas – bass Steve Lawrence – tenor saxophone Larry Cragg – baritone saxophone Claude Cailliet – trombone John Fumo – trumpet Tom Bray – trumpet
Additional roles Mike Lawson – photography Kevin Reogan – art direction F. Ron Miller – art design Joel Bernstein – production coordination Tim Mulligan – mastering John Hausmann – production assistance Elliot Roberts – direction
Charts Chart (1993) Peakposition Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) 34
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