Just as Pere Ubu had their own song called “Like A Rolling Stone” (really) and Bob Dylan and the Band named one of their compositions “Strawberry Fields Forever” (not really, sorry), there is an original number by Neil Young and Crazy Horse called “Born to Run.” Much more than the Springsteen song of the same name, it resembles “Cinnamon Girl”—same Old Black, same drop-D tuning, same frets. I can’t figure out why it’s never been released; fellow devotees of Young’s electric guitar work will love it.

According to Jimmy McDonough’s Shakey, Young taught his “Born to Run” to Crazy Horse in the spring of ‘75, several months before the Boss’s single or album came out. Young and the Horse recorded it during the sessions for their 1975 masterpiece Zuma, but left it off the album. Over a decade later, Young exhumed the song while recording Freedom, and then he and Crazy Horse revisited it during the sessions for 1990’s Ragged Glory. This last version of the song, which still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time I hear it, has surfaced on bootlegs (notably the Archives Be Damned set). The audio quality is far from pristine, but it is a killer performance. Of course, you’re welcome to wait for its official debut on Neil’s Archives Vol. 8, due to drop at any moment.