By this point, the bad times were finally wrapping up for Neil, and he was starting to feel better. He did record an acoustic album of divorce songs titled Homegrown but decided to put out the electric album of death songs, Tonight’s The Night in its place. This album became rather infamous as unreleased album that didn’t finally see the light of day until 2020. He followed this with a completely solo acoustic album called Hitchhiker that he didn’t tell anyone about. That album wasn’t released until 2019. Neil then took some of these songs from the two unreleased album and recorded Chrome Dreams. That album still hasn’t been released.

Also during this time, Neil rejoined CSN&Y for a big tour. There was supposed to be a new album from the band called Human Highway. Guess what? That one hasn’t been released either. So, Neil decides to start a new band with the one guy from CSN&Y (as well as Buffalo Springfield) that he gets along with least. The Stills-Young band did finish their one record, Long May You Run, but Neil did bail halfway through the tour to promote that album.

Neil did actually release some some music as well during this period of indecisiveness and insecurity. First was Zuma which reunited Neil with Crazy horse and was the first non-“ditch” album he had released in a while, so everyone was grateful and called it a comeback. Then Neil released what might be the world’s first box-set, Decade, containing a number of these unreleased songs as an incentive to re-purchase all these other songs that everyone already had. Still it was good stuff and people wanted to hear it, so it wasn’t that bad of an idea, but Neil was going to have to find other ways to deal with this surplus of unreleased records.