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Third Man Records unearths Neil Youngs A Letter Home. 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 Homer Grosvenor

Last July (2013), Neil Young travelled to Nashville, Tenn to record an album of covers at Jack Whites Third Man Records on a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl recording booth..

Neil Young just stopped by. He was driving his electric car, the LincVolt, he was driving around town and filming stuff, and he stopped by, checked it out, and me and him were talking about it. We had a curtain set up on the other side, said White. And some kid came into the recording booth and recorded a Neil Young song and when he opened the door, Neil Young just peaked his head out.

It was a pretty beautiful moment. And I think that a few months later he called me and said, Hey man I want to come and record in that booth. Hey, maybe Ill do my whole next record there. Im like, Im not going to stop you. Where do you want me to pick you up?

Originally made in 1947, the Voice-o-Graph is the only public vinyl record recording booth of its kind left in the world. After refurbishing it, Third Man opened the booth on Record Store Day 2013 and now anyone can come in and record up to two minutes of audio thats cut onto a six-inch phonograph disc. Young stopped by Third Man last year where he recorded a cover of Bert Janschs The Needle of Death on the Voice-o-Graph last year for a special tribute to the acoustic guitar master. Rolling Stone