“Pocahontas” is the same version that was released in 1979 on “Rust Never Sleeps,” just minus the overdubs. There are variations here being heard for the first time, but for diehard fans hoping to hear radically different versions of the songs they’ve long been familiar with, “Chrome Dreams” doesn’t offer much. In fact, all of the songs on the album have already been released in one version or another, just not in this 1977 sequence. Certainly, “Chrome Dreams” is a stunning collection, highlighted by beloved Young songs “Powderfinger,”“Pocahontas” and “Like a Hurricane.” It's impossible 46 years later to know how “Chrome Dreams” would have altered the Neil Young career narrative had it been released when planned. Young even managed to release a titular sequel, “Chrome Dreams II” in 2007, before he got around to putting out the original. The long-bootlegged collection of 12 songs, all recorded between 19 and first compiled for a release in 1977, gained legendary status as it sat in the vault. Young, 77, has been delving into his vast archive in recent years to release live albums and studio recordings that were previously slated for release, but for one reason or another never got out. Neil Young is captured in his mid-1970s prime with “Chrome Dreams,” yet another “lost” - or “unreleased" - album officially seeing the light of day as Young originally envisioned nearly half a century ago. “Chrome Dreams,” Neil Young (Reprise Records)
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