Neil Young's 1973 album Time Fades Away is a live album featuring his backing band the Stray Gators, and beyond its initial release, has never been reissued. That is, until Record Store Day on April 19. Remastered from the original analog recordings, the album will be pressed on 180-gram black vinyl.

Here's the catch: The album won't get released as just one individual record. It's packaged in the Official Release Series Discs 5-8 Vinyl Box Set, which also comes with his (very essential) albums On the Beach, Tonight's the Night, and Zuma. (T-shirts featuring the covers of all four albums are also being released on Record Store Day.) Only 3,500 boxes will be released via Warner Bros.

According to a publicist, there won't be a wider reissue of the album until the second volume of the Archives box sets are released—no word on when that will be.

The biography Shakey by Jimmy McDonough quotes a 1987 interview Young did with Dave Ferrin:

My least favorite record is Time Fades Away. I think it's the worst record I ever made—but as a documentary of what was happening to me, it was a great record. I was onstage and I was playing all these songs that nobody had heard before, recording them, and I didn't have the right band. It was just an uncomfortable tour. It was supposed to be this big deal—I just had Harvest out, and they booked me into ninety cities. I felt like a product, and I had this band of all-star musicians that couldn't even look at each other. It was a total joke.

The band featured Tim Drummond, Johnny Barbata, Jack Nitzsche, and Ben Keith. It was recorded shortly after the death of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten.

Watch him perform "Don't Be Denied" with Crosby, Stills, and Nash in 1974: