Muddy Track
Muddy Track is a documentary film by Neil Young (under the alias Bernard Shakey), made during his 1987 European tour with Crazy Horse. The film never received a proper release, although bootleg copies had been available through fan trading, and some of the footage made its way to Jim Jarmusch’s 1997 rockumentary Year of the Horse. In 2015 Muddy Track was premiered in cinemas as a part of "Shakey Films Retrospective". Since 2018 it has also been sporadically available for streaming for paid subscribers on Young's Archives website.
| Muddy Track | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bernard Shakey |
| Produced by | L.A. Johnson |
| Starring | Neil Young and Crazy Horse |
| Music by | Neil Young and Crazy Horse |
| Cinematography | Neil Young David Briggs Niko Bolas Brian Bell Billy Talbot Harlan Goodman Contant Meyer |
| Edited by | Glen Scantlebury |
Running time | 72 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Shot largely with a handheld camera (dubbed 'Otto' by Young), Muddy Track documents a difficult tour of Europe, plagued by poor weather, dwindling ticket sales, backstage arguments and audience riots. In an interview with MOJO in 1995 Young claimed that Muddy Track was among the favourite of all his films: "It’s dark as hell. God, it’s a heavy one! [...] But it’s funky".
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DVD Production
- Directed by: Bernard Shakey
- Produced by: Will Mitchell
- Executive Producer: Elliot Rabinowitz
- Post Production for Shakey Pictures at Upstream Multimedia
- Art Direction: Toshi Onuki
- Production Assistance: Mark Faulkner
- DVD Authoring and Encoding: Rich Winter at Blackbird Digital Studios, Marin County, CA
