Neil Young recorded this collection of covers with Jack White on a refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth at Third Man's Nashville headquarters. Imagine a very simple recording studio not much larger than a phone booth and you\u2019ll get the idea. He describes the album as \""an unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro-mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever.\"" Recorded live to track to one-track, mono, the album has an inherent warm, primitive feel of a vintage Folkways recording,

As for the track-listing, Young chose songs that have personal meaning for him, such as Bert Jansch\u2019s \u2018Needle of Death\u2019 (which inspired Young to write 1972\u2019s \u2018Needle and the Damage Done\u2019), Bob Dylan\u2019s 'Girl from the North Country', Willie Nelson\u2019s \u2018Crazy\u2019, Don Everly\u2019s \u2018I Wonder If I Care as Much\u2019, Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u20h