![Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) [8CD] on CD by Neil Young](https://d3fa68hw0m2vcc.cloudfront.net/4f2/310988839.jpeg "Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) [8CD] on CD by Neil Young")
Neil Young recorded the collection of covers with Jack White on a refurbished 1947 Voice-OGraph recording booth at Third Man's Nashville headquarters. Recorded live to track to onetrack, mono, giving A Letter Home an inherent warm, primitive feel of a vintage Folkways recording.
For the track-listing, Young chose songs that have personal meaning for him, such as British folk artist Bert Jansch’s ‘Needle of Death’ (which inspired Young to write 1972’s ‘Needle and the Damage Done’), Bob Dylan’s ‘Girl from the North Country’, Willie Nelson’s ‘Crazy’, Don Everly’s ‘I Wonder If I Care as Much’, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘My Home Town’, and many others.