Neil Young finds 'A Treasure' in his vault

NASHVILLE, June 16 (UPI) -- Canadian-born rocker Neil Young says a lack of record company and radio support made his 1984-85 tour a particularly strong memory in his long career.

Young has chronicled the trek, which supported his 1984 country album "Old Ways," on a new archival release called "A Treasure," which includes both audio recordings from the tour and bootleg fan videos.

"At the point when I did this," Young recalls, "I was being sued by my record company for playing country music and playing music that was uncharacteristic of Neil Young. And I also had been told by the record company that country radio would never play this (music).

"So I was out there doing it myself and playing it for people who were loving it. And all the musicians were loving and it we were having a great time, so we decided to just ignore everything and keep going."

"A Treasure" includes five songs that Young has never released, and he says more original songs were played on the tour and might be part of one of his future "Archives" box sets. He plans to release a second "Archives" in 2012 and has already started working on a third edition.

Young is also taking part in a reunion of Buffalo Springfield, which recently played at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee and will be touring more extensively in the fall.